Budgeting in the UAE usually means a mix of currencies, a large expat population, and no Western app that connects to Emirati banks. Cash Compass runs in dirhams, in Arabic or English, with no bank link required.
Apple-native · No bank logins · iCloud sync
Copilot Money, Monarch, Rocket Money and YNAB's automatic import cover North America, not Emirates NBD or ADCB. Budgeting in the UAE with those apps means paying for sync you'll never use. Cash Compass treats manual capture as the product rather than the fallback, so a local salary account, an international card and cash spending all record the same way.
Set AED as your currency and every total, chart and export follows. Because every ISO currency is supported, the common expat pattern — earning in dirhams, sending money home, holding an account in another currency — is a settings change rather than a limitation. Cash Compass also includes Arabic among its 33 translations, set independently of currency.
Running the app in Arabic gives you a properly localised interface rather than a half-translated one, while the numbers stay in AED. For households where one partner prefers Arabic and another English, each device can use a different language against the same currency, and premium iCloud sync keeps a shared picture aligned.
Voice, photo of a receipt, or 3-tap manual entry — every method takes under 5 seconds.
Cash Compass picks the category automatically. Override once and it learns your pattern.
Weekly chart shows where money went. Adjust caps before the month is over, not after.
No. Cash Compass has no bank connections anywhere, so Emirates NBD, ADCB, FAB and international accounts are all supported equally — you're logging spending, not importing statements. Nothing needs reauthorising.
Yes. AED is selectable at setup and changeable in Settings, and all amounts, charts and CSV exports follow it. Every ISO currency is available if you also track spending abroad.
Yes — Arabic is one of 33 translated languages, and interface language is set separately from currency, so an Arabic interface with AED amounts is a standard configuration.
You can log remittances as a category like any other expense and see what they total each month. Because currency is a per-user setting rather than per-transaction, most people track in AED and record transfers as a single categorised expense.
Built native for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with iCloud sync. Works offline.
No bank logins, no Plaid, no data sales. All data lives in your iCloud.
Manual entry, charts, category tracking — all free, forever. Premium is optional.
Arabic or English, every currency supported. Free manual logging on the App Store.
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