For years, personal finance software has chased the same idea: connect your accounts, hand over your data, and they'll tell you everything you need to know.

But handing over your data means handing over control.

Your information fuels referrals and products built for someone else's growth, not yours. And when that company gets acquired or shut down, you're left starting over.

But perhaps more importantly, it removes the most essential part of personal finance: being involved.

Our real financial lives are messier than a stream of synced transactions. Money often moves outside of formal methods that can be fully synced. Think about the loan you gave a family member in need. Or that investment you made in a friend's new business.

The people who build lasting wealth tend to handle their finances differently. They stay close to their numbers.

They know what they own. They know what they owe. They know how their cashflows are changing and check in regularly to adjust.

Not obsessively. Just deliberately.

Many people already do this themselves, often with spreadsheets.

We think that habit deserves a better tool.

A simple, yet powerful tool to support a simple, yet powerful practice: snapshotting your finances to know where you stand and how far you are from your goals.

The decisions are still yours.
The data is still yours.

Porto just makes this practice easier.

Private by default. Independent by design. Built to last, not for funding cycles.

A better way to actively manage your finances.

That's Porto. Coming soon.