Getting started
Understand Granite’s core ideas and build a useful daily budgeting habit.
Granite Learn
Clear answers for better money decisions.
Learn how to use Granite, understand changes in your daily budget, and build a system that works in real life.
Start with what Granite Finance isUseful, without exposing the engine
We explain customer-facing inputs, outcomes, and next steps. Granite’s formulas, internal thresholds, and operational logic remain proprietary.
Troubleshooting
Work through surprising numbers, delayed activity, and connection issues.
Guides
Apply daily budgeting to real situations such as monthly pay and changing bills.
Research
Explore future privacy-reviewed reports and aggregate budgeting observations.
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Getting started
What is Granite Finance?
Learn how Granite turns your financial plan and connected-account activity into a daily budget, cash-flow context, and clearer spending decisions.
7 min read
Getting started
Getting started with Granite in five minutes
Add the financial plan behind your budget, connect the accounts you use for spending, and know what to check first.
7 min read
Guides
How transactions affect your Granite budget
Understand how purchases, income, pending activity, manual entries, edits, categories, and ignored transactions change what remains available.
8 min read
Guides
How to scan a price tag and add cash spending
Use Granite’s mobile price scanner to capture a visible price, review the suggested item and category, and add an editable cash expense.
6 min read
Guides
How to log a transaction by voice with Granite
Speak a purchase in Granite on iPhone or Android, then review the suggested transaction before saving. On iPhone, start with Siri or Shortcuts.
7 min read
Guides
How to use Granite with Siri and mobile shortcuts
Set up Granite voice and price-scanning shortcuts on iPhone or Android. Learn how to use Siri, Control Center, Apple Shortcuts, and Android launcher shortcuts.
6 min read
Troubleshooting
Refunds, reimbursements, and credit-card payments
Learn how refunds, statement credits, reimbursements, transfers, and credit-card payments should affect your Granite budget without double counting.
9 min read
Guides
How to understand Granite Insights
Read your monthly snapshot, six-month trends, category spending, largest expenses, and savings progress without mixing unlike totals.
8 min read
Guides
How to read Granite’s 30-day cash-flow forecast
Understand current checking, projected low points, expected deposits and bills, credit-card due dates, and why a new forecast needs history.
8 min read
Guides
How to manage your Granite account
Manage your subscription, connected banks, privacy choices, supported platforms, and permanent account deletion.
9 min read
Troubleshooting
How to troubleshoot a Granite bank connection
Reconnect an institution, add newly available accounts, investigate delayed activity, and know when replacing a connection is the right next step.
9 min read
Guides
How to use Granite daily budget change alerts
Choose a meaningful percentage threshold and receive an optional push notification when your daily budget changes significantly.
6 min read
Guides
How to create and manage custom categories in Granite
Create expense categories that match your life, recategorize transactions, and understand what happens when a category is renamed or deleted.
6 min read
Guides
How to use the Granite Finance plugin in ChatGPT
Add Granite Finance from ChatGPT’s plugin directory, approve scoped access, ask supported budgeting questions, and disconnect when you choose.
9 min read
Getting started
What is a daily budget? Meaning and examples
Learn what a daily budget means, see a simple example, and understand how Granite turns a monthly financial plan into useful spending context.
7 min read
Troubleshooting
Why did my daily budget change?
See why a daily budget can rise or fall after spending, income, pending transactions, transfers, plan edits, or the normal progression of the month.
9 min read
Guides
Connected accounts and pending transactions
Follow a transaction from secure account connection through Plaid, Granite synchronization, pending activity, and your updated budget.
8 min read
Guides
Budgeting when you are paid monthly
Learn how to budget on one monthly paycheck while paying your credit-card statement, covering current expenses, and protecting savings.
8 min read
Guides
How to update income, savings, and investments in Granite
Keep the monthly income, savings, and investment amounts behind your Granite budget aligned with your real financial plan.
6 min read
Getting started
How to enable Face ID in Granite
Protect access to Granite on a supported iPhone and return to your budget with Face ID.
4 min read
Guides
How to add the Granite widget to your iPhone
Put your current Granite spending context on the iPhone Home Screen with a Small or Medium widget.
4 min read
Guides
How to use Granite on Apple Watch
Install the Granite companion app, sync your latest budget, and add the Daily Budget complication to a supported watch face.
5 min read
Guides
How to search and filter transactions in Granite
Find the activity you need by merchant, category, account, date, amount, or transaction status.
5 min read
Guides
How to read the Granite calendar
See daily spending, daily budget history, overspending days, and upcoming recurring activity in one monthly view.
5 min read
Research shelf
Reports built for trust, not noise.
We are developing privacy-safe research into how budgets move through real life. Findings will appear here when the data and methodology are ready to support them.
Research & reports
In developmentThe Granite Budgeting Index
Future privacy-reviewed research into spending pace and budgeting behavior.
Research & reports
In developmentDaily budget movement research
Future research into when safe-to-spend estimates change and how people adapt.
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