Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about PP Expense features, security, and pricing.
1. What is PP Expense?
PP Expense is a privacy-first, offline-first personal finance and expense management app by Publicity Poster. It helps you track expenses, income, transfers, budgets, categories, payment methods, and financial reports from a single app. PP Expense is designed to keep your everyday financial records primarily on your device while providing optional features such as Google Sign-In, Google Drive backup and restore, analytics and diagnostics, and premium ad-free subscriptions.
2. Is PP Expense free to use?
Yes. PP Expense provides a free version that includes the core expense-management functionality. The free experience may include advertisements. Additional paid subscription options may be available for users who want an ad-free experience and other premium functionality offered by PP Expense.
3. Does PP Expense work offline?
Yes. Core PP Expense functionality is designed to work offline. You can use the app to manage your locally stored financial records without requiring an internet connection. Internet access may be required for optional or online-dependent features such as: Google Sign-In Google Drive backup and restore Advertisement delivery Subscription and payment verification Support requests Certain diagnostics or online services Your core financial records are not dependent on having a continuous internet connection.
4. Do I need to create an account to use PP Expense?
No. PP Expense supports Continue Offline / Skip, allowing you to use the core application without creating or signing into an account. Google Sign-In is available as an optional feature for supported account-based functionality.
5. Is my financial data stored on your servers?
PP Expense is designed with a local-first architecture. Your core financial records are stored locally within the application on your device by default. This includes information such as: Expenses Income Transfers Categories Budgets Tags Notes Payment methods Other financial records created within the app However, if you voluntarily use features such as Google Drive backup or restore, selected app data may be copied to your personal Google Drive.
6. Does PP Expense sell my financial data?
No. Publicity Poster does not sell your personal financial records or transaction history. Your financial information is intended to remain within the app's local storage unless you explicitly use a feature that transfers or backs up your information, such as Google Drive backup or a user-initiated export. Please refer to our Privacy Policy for complete information about data handling.
7. What information can I track in PP Expense?
PP Expense can help you manage several types of financial information, including: Expenses Income Transfers Transaction amounts Transaction dates Categories Custom categories Payment methods Tags Notes Budgets Financial reports The exact features available may vary by application version.
8. Can I create my own categories?
Yes. PP Expense supports custom categories, allowing you to organize transactions according to your own financial habits and requirements. For example, you can create categories for specific business expenses, household expenses, subscriptions, travel, education, shopping, or other needs.
9. Can I manage budgets in PP Expense?
Yes. PP Expense includes budget-management functionality that allows you to set and monitor spending limits. Budget information can be used to understand your spending and help you stay within your planned limits.
10. Does PP Expense provide spending reports?
Yes. PP Expense provides visual reports and summaries that can help you understand your financial activity. Depending on the available version and features, reports may help you analyze: Expenses Income Spending categories Budget performance Financial trends Transaction activity
11. Does PP Expense support income and transfers?
Yes. PP Expense is not limited to expense entries. You can also record income and transfers to maintain a more complete picture of your finances.
12. What is AI Quick Add?
AI Quick Add is designed to make transaction entry faster. Instead of manually entering every field, you can provide a natural-language description of a transaction and the app can interpret it into structured financial information. For example, you may enter something similar to: “Spent ₹500 on groceries today.” The feature can help identify relevant transaction details.
13. Does AI Quick Add send my financial information to an AI server?
PP Expense's AI Quick Add functionality is designed to perform its parsing on your device. This means the natural-language transaction input used by the feature is processed locally according to the current app architecture rather than being sent to a third-party AI service for ordinary Quick Add processing. You should still review AI-assisted entries before saving them, particularly when the transaction contains important financial information.
14. Can PP Expense automatically alert me about my budget?
Yes. PP Expense can provide budget alerts when spending reaches configured thresholds. The app currently supports budget alert levels such as: 80% of the budget 100% of the budget You can manage budget-alert preferences through the application's settings.
15. Can I set a daily expense reminder?
Yes. PP Expense includes a daily reminder option that can help remind you to record your financial transactions. You can manage reminder settings from the app.
16. Can PP Expense provide a monthly financial summary?
Yes. The app includes a Monthly Financial Summary feature that can help you review your financial activity periodically. Availability and behavior may depend on your notification and application settings.
17. Can I back up my PP Expense data?
Yes. PP Expense provides backup options designed to help you protect your financial records. Supported options include: Google Drive backup JSON backup Data export options such as CSV
18. How does Google Drive backup work?
You can optionally connect PP Expense to your personal Google Drive account and authorize the application to use the permissions required for its backup and restore functionality. Once authorized, you can use options such as: Upload Backup to Google Drive Import Backup from Google Drive Automatic Cloud Backup The backup is stored in your Google Drive account rather than being publicly accessible.
19. Is Google Drive backup mandatory?
No. Google Drive backup is optional. You can continue using PP Expense locally without connecting Google Drive. If you want an additional backup of your financial records, you can choose to use the available backup options.
20. Can I restore my data from Google Drive?
Yes. If you have previously created a compatible backup, PP Expense can provide an option to import or restore your data from Google Drive. You must authorize the required Google Drive access for the restore process.
21. Can I export my financial data?
Yes. PP Expense provides data-export functionality, including CSV export. The application also provides JSON backup/restore functionality. These options can be useful if you want to keep your own copy of your financial records or migrate/restore your data.
22. Can I use PP Expense on multiple devices?
You can use PP Expense on multiple supported devices, but your locally stored data does not automatically appear on another device simply because the app is installed there. To move or restore your data between devices, you can use supported backup and restore functionality, such as Google Drive or compatible backup files. Account and subscription entitlement behavior may depend on the applicable sign-in and subscription system.
23. Does PP Expense require Google Sign-In?
No. Google Sign-In is optional for users who want to use supported account-related functionality. You can choose Continue Offline / Skip to use the core app without signing in.
24. What does Google Sign-In do?
Google Sign-In allows supported PP Expense account functionality to be associated with your Google account. PP Expense does not receive your Google password. Information made available through Google authentication is handled according to the permissions you authorize and our Privacy Policy.
25. Does PP Expense access all of my Google Drive files?
No. PP Expense only requests the Google Drive access necessary for the backup and restore functionality you authorize. It does not give PP Expense unrestricted permission to use your entire Google account simply because you connect Google Drive. The exact permissions presented to you are determined by the Google authorization process and the application's current implementation.
26. Does PP Expense contain advertisements?
Yes. The free version of PP Expense may display advertisements through Google AdMob. Advertising allows us to support the availability and continued development of the free version of the application. Advertising services may process certain technical or advertising-related information according to their own policies and your applicable settings or consent choices.