I was chatting with friends about Sat Sorter and what we’ve been working on. When I mentioned that Sat Sorter is free and open-source, they were puzzled about why I didn’t charge for it. Frankly, I’ve considered ways to make money from Sat Sorter, and maybe one day I’ll find a way to profit from it, but the incentives need to be right. The way things are set up is really important, which is why Sat Sorter is free for everyone to use. This is crucial as it incentivizes users to adopt freedom technology, not pay for another subscription. With regular budgeting apps, they often make you pay a subscription to unlock extra features. On one hand, that’s fair—the user likes the extra features and is willing to pay for them. However, the incentives are off. The user is incentivized to pay a fee, and the company is incentivized to use a subscription model and, in some cases, sell the users’ data for more profit. These incentives are twisted and make things worse for the user. With Sat Sorter, we’ve designed our incentives to be better. Anyone can use Sat Sorter for free, without any payments or subscriptions. So, if you use Sat Sorter, you won’t have to spend more money to access its best features. Instead, we incentivize users to adopt open-source tools and freedom technology, like Nostr and NWC. If you’re interested in these great features, you don’t need to pay Sat Sorter for them; instead, you can adopt these empowering technologies at no cost to you. The incentive for Sat Sorter is more freedom technology adoption for everyone. It’s truly a win-win. You unlock features in Sat Sorter and open yourself up to a better world free from data harvesting or centralized servers. Sat Sorter is all about budgeting and Bitcoin adoption, while exposing more people to these fantastic tools. If you find value in Sat Sorter, you’re always welcome to contribute by sending some sats or donating to help support its development through @Geyser at the link below, or don’t and just simply use Sat Sorter for free. Any support is really appreciated, as we’re dedicated to building and creating the best budgeting app for everyone.

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Incentives, it’s all about the incentives. What incentives does your budgeting app have? Are they incentivized to empower you or incentivized to make you their cash cow? #asknostr

With the #bullishmarket tonight, there’s no better time to give Sat Sorter a try! Try it out at satsorter.com, log in with your Nostr account, and connect your wallet via NWC. Then, as you spend at the market tonight, your transactions will automatically import, ready to be sorted! Give it a try and please share your feedback. We’re creating this app for everyone to use to enjoy a seamless Bitcoin budgeting experience 🤝

Made my first order from @SweetSats and was able to track it instantly with Sat Sorter. Excited to get the goods and support Bitcoin businesses 🤝

NEW UPDATES: Sat Sorter now supports Budget Partners! 👥⚡ Share your budget with your spouse for collaborative household budgeting — all while keeping your data private. How it works: Open the ☰ menu → Budget Partners Enter your budget partner's npub They'll see an invite when they open Sat Sorter and log in Once accepted, you both see the same budget in real-time Stay on the same page and work towards the same goals, together Privacy first: Your data stays encrypted with YOUR keys Only you and your budget partner can read and edit No central server — syncs via Nostr relays ALSO NEW: 🔀 Split transactions for more detailed tracking: Break one transaction into multiple categories. That Target run can be part groceries, part household items — with the ability to leave notes for each split. 📅 Copy your prior month’s budget to a new month with one click for easy set up each month. Give every sat a job — together. 💜 Try it out at satsorter.com

Fiat Budgeting Apps are a data leak risk ⚠️ Most fiat budgeting apps are just slick frontends for Plaid/MX and other third parties. Here’s what that really means: * You hand over bank logins to third parties * They scrape & store your full transaction history on their servers * They monetize "anonymized" insights (your data and patterns = their product) * Creates a honeypot for hackers → see Plaid’s $58M FTC fine * Plus, fiat is trash and is going to zero Sat Sorter fixes this ✅ ⚡ No Plaid. No MX. No bank scraping. Your data is YOUR DATA
→ Manual logging, bulk CSV imports, or NWC for Lightning wallets to track transaction on your terms
→ NWC = view-only access. Asks: "What transactions happened?" That’s it. A silent observer to help you stay organize. It will never touch your sats. 🔒 Your data stays on your device
→ Default: Browser storage (IndexedDB), encrypted.
→ Optional Nostr sync with E2E encrypted blobs (NIP-44). Relays see gibberish. Get the benefits of the cloud without using the cloud. 🟠 Bitcoin-native tracking
→ Budget in sats, USD, or both with instant currency switching
→ Track spends in real-time sats (live price conversion)
→ "$50 groceries | 5,420 sats today → 5,391 sats tomorrow" 🌐 Open source & serverless
→ Inspect the code. Fork it. Self-host it. No black boxes.
→ No "Sat Sorter cloud" → no data silo to breach. This isn’t budgeting—it’s self-custody for your financial life.
Your keys. Your data. Your rules. Try it: satsorter.com 
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Introducing Sat Sorter — zero-based budgeting on a Bitcoin standard. Built for hodlers and newbies alike. ✨ Features: 🗺️ See where to spend sats near you directly in the app ⚡ Auto-import transactions from Alby Hub 🔄 Encrypted sync across devices via Nostr relays 💾 Your data stays yours — 100% private & open source 🪙 Switch between Sats or USD — great if you already live on a Bitcoin standard or if you’re new to Bitcoin and don’t think in Sats yet All built with Shakespeare. Check it out and start budgeting at satsorter.com