Lento
Lento the sloth hangs from a branch above a couple relaxing on a couch, looking at their phone together.

Life's Easier, Nothing To Organize.

Know where your money stands, without becoming a budget person.

Meet Lento, a calm money buddy for your family. Connect your accounts and Lento does the sorting, the adding up and the math. Each morning you get a plain-English picture of how you're doing, and a short list of what would help.

Invite-only beta. The demo uses made-up numbers, so click anything.

How it works

Set it up once. After that, just glance.

Connect your accounts

Checking, savings, credit cards, investments. Purchases come in on their own through Plaid. It's read-only: Lento can't move money.

Let Lento do the sorting

Every purchase gets filed in the right place, and Lento remembers your corrections. It can even draft the month's budget from what you really earn and spend; you just look it over.

Glance, don't manage

Open it for a minute: what's left to spend, whether the month is on track, and the one or two things worth doing. The detail is there if you ever want it.

For couples

One of you loves spreadsheets. The other would rather not.

Most couples have one budgeter and one person who'd rather run at the word. With Lento, both of you see the same picture, in plain words, and each takes part as much as you like.

Lento relaxing in a hammock.

For the one who'd rather not

Open Home and read one sentence: on pace, or worth a look. No jargon, nothing to fill in.

For the detail-lover

Every category, rule, forecast and chart is there to dig into. Change anything, and the summary updates for both of you.

Same page, literally

Each of you signs in with your own login to the same household. Every number has an ⓘ that says what it means, so nobody needs a translator.

Every morning

The whole month in one look

Home answers the questions you'd otherwise dig for: how much is left to spend, whether the month is on pace, what bills are still coming, and where things are headed if nothing changes.

  • Left to spend, per day, for the rest of the month
  • Bills still to pay, already set aside
  • A short "at a glance" list in plain words
Lento's Home screen: $2,015 left to spend, about $88 a day; October on pace overall; bills still to pay; and a family-at-a-glance list.

The budget, mostly done for you

A budget you don't have to build

Lento looks at what your family actually earns and spends and drafts the month. You look it over and save. It's built on the cash you really have, not a guess about next month, so it stays honest.

  • Drafted from your real income and spending
  • Money you don't spend rolls into next month
  • Want to fine-tune? Every category is there. You don't have to.
The October budget: $3,443 spent of $5,225, $1,782 left, and $7,627 ready to assign.

Just tell me what to do

A short list, not a spreadsheet

Lento turns your numbers into a handful of plain steps, like "cover one overspent category", each one a tap away from fixing it. A simple scorecard says whether the family is on track, worth watching, or needs attention.

  • Every number explains itself: what it means, whether it's good, what would help
  • Steps check themselves off when they're done
  • Good news is celebrated, not buried
Your next steps: categorize 2 transactions, cover 1 overspent category, give $7,627 a job.

Also inside

The detail is there when you want it

Ask in plain English

"How much did we spend eating out this year?" Ask Lento, and get an answer from your own numbers.

Family and business, kept apart

Run a small business through your accounts? It gets its own budget, profit, owner's pay and tax set-aside, so it never looks like family spending.

Categorizing that learns

Fix a category once and Lento remembers, so the same store lands in the right place next time.

Receipts in a snap

Photograph a receipt (or upload a PDF) and it attaches itself to the right charge, even before the charge shows up.

Cash forecast

See your balance 30, 60 or 90 days ahead from your recurring bills and paychecks, and the lowest point before it happens.

Slow and steady to independence

How much you'd need to stop depending on a paycheck, when you'll get there at today's pace (Social Security included), and what would move the date.

Your data

Private by design

It's your family's money. Lento treats the data that way.

Never sold, no ads

Your data is used to run your budget, and for nothing else. No trackers in the app.

Read-only bank access

Banks connect through Plaid. We never see your bank password, and Lento can't move a cent.

Locked down

Encrypted connections and bank keys, two-step sign-in, and walls between households that are tested on every update. Leave anytime, and take your data with you.

Lento hanging from a branch, waving hello.

Opening to a few families at a time

The beta is invite-only while we make sure everything is solid. Relax and take a look around the demo in the meantime.