Kola Duo
Budgeting together, as a game.
Kola Duo is an expense tracker for couples and households. You both log your day, a shared streak grows, and nobody gets ranked.
How it works
Money is hard to talk about. A game is not.
Most budgeting apps show who spent what and leave the two of you to deal with it. Kola Duo only counts what you do together.
One streak, shared.
A day counts when each of you has logged an expense, or tapped “nothing spent today”. One person cannot carry the streak alone, and a streak saver covers the day life gets in the way.
Meet Kola.
Kola is your household’s creature. It starts as a seed and grows with the XP you earn by logging together. Levels, the daily chest and seasons bring items to place in its world.
- Seed Where every household starts.
- Sprout At 250 XP, Kola gets its feet.
- Sapling At 1,500 XP, arms and four leaves.
Seed
Sprout
Sapling
Savings goals become bosses.
Name what you are saving for, and it becomes a boss with a health bar. Every deposit, from either of you, takes some of it down. Three duo quests a week keep the habit going.
The rules of the game
Three rules I will not break.
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No ranking between you.
No leaderboard, no comparison, no “who spent too much”. You win together or not at all.
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Consistency, never amounts.
Rewards follow the habit of logging. What one person spent or saved earns nothing extra.
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Paying speeds nothing up.
No pay-to-win. The two-person game is free, and Premium only adds cosmetics and capacity.
Built for real households
Cash and mobile money count too.
No bank link
Entries are manual, because a lot of real spending never touches a card. It takes a few seconds, and it is the habit the whole game rests on.
Private when it needs to be
Mark an expense as private and your partner does not see it. Household totals stay right, and a surprise gift stays a surprise.
Quiet notifications
Reminders never show amounts or what you bought. Nothing about your money appears on a lock screen.
Good questions
Before you sign up.
Do we have to type in every expense?
Yes, by hand, and it takes a few seconds. That is on purpose: cash and mobile money count, and the daily habit is the game. A day with no spending counts too, with one tap.
Will my partner see everything I spend?
Only what you leave shared. An expense marked private stays hidden from your partner, while the household totals remain correct.
Is it free?
The game for two is free: the streak, Kola, quests, bosses and seasons. Premium is planned for cosmetics and extra capacity. It will never make the game go faster.
Is it only for couples?
It is built for two people first: partners, roommates, siblings. Larger households are on the roadmap.
When does the beta open?
There is no date to promise yet. Sign up below and you will get an email the day it opens, with the app in English or French.
Join the beta
Want to play it first?
Kola Duo is not released yet. Sign up and you will get an invitation when the beta opens. Your email is only used for that.
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