Finance apps are not abandoned because they lack features. They are abandoned because entering the fourteenth expense of the month takes ninety seconds, and there are eleven more.
The last few Plutos releases have been almost entirely about that ninety seconds.
Every dropdown is searchable now
If you hold accounts in more than one currency, you have met the currency dropdown that lists all of them and expects you to scroll. It is a small humiliation, repeated.
Every data-backed select in Plutos now filters as you type: currencies, wallet groups, budgets, budget item groups, categories, tags, invoicings, and people. Three letters and the option is there. The New Wallet dialog — where the currency and group pickers are the two fields most likely to be long — got the same treatment.
Typing chf to find Swiss francs is not a feature anyone will put on a landing page. It is the difference between the app being usable at eleven at night and not.
A filter on the wallets page
Wallet lists grow. A household with current accounts, savings, a couple of cards, a cash wallet and a few project-specific pots, all nested into groups, is normal — and after about fifteen entries, finding one becomes scrolling.
The wallets page now has a search filter that matches names and paths. Type savings and you get every wallet with that in its name, wherever it sits. Type a group name and you get its contents. The tree is still there when you want to browse it; the filter is there when you already know what you’re looking for.
Rename and re-parent, without starting over
You do not know the right structure for your accounts on the day you set them up. You find it out over a few months — and until now, correcting it meant recreating things.
Wallets and groups now have edit buttons: rename either, and move a group somewhere else in the hierarchy.
Duplicate a billing entry
Some entries repeat with small variations — the monthly invoice with a different date, the same travel expense for the second person on the trip, last quarter’s filing with new numbers.
You can now duplicate a billing entry and choose, explicitly, what comes along: a new title, an optional new date, and checkboxes for tags, receipts, user portions, folio links and wallet operations.
The choice is deliberately not made for you. A duplicate that silently drags along the receipts of the original is a bookkeeping problem, not a shortcut.
And two things you should never have seen
Content no longer runs behind the status bar on mobile, and the drawer always reflects whether you’re actually signed in — rather than showing a stale state until you tap something.
Neither is worth a headline. Both were worth fixing.
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