Donovelo keeps your gift fund in one readable place: what you planned, what actually moved, and the one decision worth making this week.
The full workspace: gift fund plus reviews, reminders and clean exports. Donovelo Solutions is the everything-else drawer, organized.
Donovelo Flex is the adjust mode: move money between envelopes, weeks or goals without breaking the month.
Donovelo Invest projects your set-asides across years so the long view stops being abstract. A planning tool, not a broker or advisor.
For people who like patterns: Donovelo Edge adds trend views, drift alerts and a monthly signals digest.
“It never guilt-trips me. It just shows the month as it is and lets me fix it.”
“Setup took one evening. Three months in, they still open the gift fund every Sunday.”
“I was a spreadsheet person for years. The exports made switching painless.”
| Donovelo | a plain notebook | typical money app | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup time | one evening | a weekend | days of fiddling |
| Weekly review | built in | manual | manual |
| Export | one tap, always | manual copy | paywalled |
| Shared ledger | yes, per-person entries | possible | rare |
| Guilt mechanics | none | varies | streaks and badges |
We measure weeks kept, not minutes spent.
Manual entries first; connections optional, encryption standard.
Every byte you put in can come back out as CSV.
If a chart needs a legend to explain itself, it does not ship.
No streak confetti, no push guilt. The app speaks when there is something worth saying.
Weekly review shows what changed and why — in plain words, without scoring your character.
Everything lives on a single page: plan, moves, and the week's single decision. Nothing hides two clicks deep.
The core gift fund is free, including export. Donovelo Edge and the report layer sit behind a small flat price.
No. Donovelo works on manual entries by design — read-only bank links are optional, never required.
On your device first, synced encrypted if you enable it. Export is always one tap away.
Yes. Paid layers are month-to-month; your data and history stay exportable forever.
We built Donovelo after years of tools that demanded attention and returned noise. A gift fund should behave like a good ledger: quiet, legible, honest about what moved. Today careful savers in 24 countries use Donovelo …