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Quick Add from Your Phone

Get to a filled-in expense form in a tap or two: from a link, from a message you copied, from your phone's Share menu, or from a Shortcut or automation you build yourself.

You still tap Add

Every route on this page opens the Add a new expense form with the line already typed and read. You check the details and tap Add, exactly as when you type it yourself. Nothing is saved on its own.

1. What works where

Android iPhone
A link that opens the form filled in (section 2) Yes Yes
Paste button (section 3) Yes, in Chrome Yes, in Safari (iOS asks you to allow Paste)
Share menu: Share → TrackMyRupee (section 4) Yes, once installed No: iPhone does not offer this, use a Shortcut instead
Press-and-hold the app icon: Add expense, Add income Yes, once installed No
Your own shortcut or automation (sections 4 and 5) Yes, with an automation app Yes, with the Shortcuts app

You need to be signed in on the phone's browser for any of this.

Add ?text= and what you want typed to the address of the new-expense page:

https://trackmyrupee.com/expenses/add/?text=swiggy%20320

The form opens with swiggy 320 in the box, already read: amount 320, description Swiggy, and the category and account it would normally pick.

  • Spaces are written %20, and a few characters (&, #, +) must be encoded too. Shortcut and automation apps can do this for you, as shown below.
  • The usual words work: uber 150 upi yesterday, rent 1.5k cash 3 oct. See Type It Like You Would Text a Friend.
  • Only the first 300 characters are used, and line breaks become spaces.
  • Once the form has opened, the text is removed from the address bar, so refreshing or going back does not bring it back.
  • If you are signed out, you are asked to sign in and then land on the same form.

Make a link for something you log every day, such as ?text=chai%2020, and keep it as a bookmark or a Home Screen icon for one-tap logging.

3. Paste from your clipboard

Next to the microphone there is a clipboard button. Copy a bank or UPI message, open Add a new expense, tap the button, and the message is pasted and read for you. For example, Rs.150 paid to UBER via UPI becomes amount 150, description Uber, payment method UPI.

  • The clipboard is read only when you tap the button. On iPhone, iOS asks you to allow the paste.
  • If the clipboard is empty, or your browser refuses, a short message says so and you can press and hold in the box and choose Paste instead.
  • The button is hidden in browsers that cannot read the clipboard (Firefox, for example).

4. Android

Install the app

Open trackmyrupee.com in Chrome, then choose the menu (⋮) → Install app (or Add to Home screen). It then opens like an app, without the browser bars.

The Share menu

In any app, Share a piece of text and choose TrackMyRupee. The form opens with that text read. Try it with a message from your bank app, a note, or a chat. If TrackMyRupee does not appear straight away, give Chrome a day to refresh the installed app, or install it again.

Press and hold the icon

Press and hold the TrackMyRupee icon to see Add expense and Add income.

Your own automation

Any app that can open a link will do. Three examples:

  • A button on your Home Screen: in Chrome, open the link from section 2, then ⋮ → Add to Home screen. One tap opens the form filled in.
  • Tasker: make a task with a Browse URL action. Set the URL to https://trackmyrupee.com/expenses/add/?text=%text, where %text holds your text. Run Variable Convert → URL Encode on it first so spaces and symbols are safe.
  • MacroDroid and similar apps: use the Open Website (or Launch URL) action with the same link, and URL-encode the text if the app offers it.

Links to trackmyrupee.com usually open in the installed app. If yours opens in Chrome instead, that works the same.

5. iPhone Shortcuts

iPhone does not list TrackMyRupee in the Share menu, but the Shortcuts app can do the same job, and more.

A shortcut you can speak or type into

  1. Open Shortcuts and tap + to make a new shortcut.
  2. Add Ask for Input. Choose Text and set the question to What did you spend on? To speak instead, add Dictate Text.
  3. Add an action that URL-encodes the text (search the actions for encode), and give it the input from step 2.
  4. Add Open URLs and set it to https://trackmyrupee.com/expenses/add/?text= followed by the encoded text.
  5. Name it, for example Add expense.

A shortcut that appears in the Share menu

This is handy for a bank or UPI message you want to log.

  1. Make a new shortcut, open its settings (ⓘ), and turn on Show in Share Sheet. Allow it to receive Text.
  2. Add the URL-encode action on Shortcut Input, then Open URLs with the same link as above.
  3. In Messages, press and hold a bank message, tap Share, and choose your shortcut.

Ways to run a shortcut

  • Home Screen icon: in the shortcut's settings, Add to Home Screen.
  • Siri: say "Hey Siri" followed by the shortcut's name.
  • Action Button (iPhone 15 Pro and later): Settings → Action Button → Shortcut.
  • Back Tap: Settings → Accessibility → Touch → Back Tap → choose your shortcut.
  • Lock Screen or widget: add the Shortcuts widget and pick your shortcut.

On iPhone the link opens in Safari, so be signed in there.

6. Good to know

  • Nothing is saved until you tap Add. For fully hands-free logging we would need a different feature, which is not part of TrackMyRupee today.
  • Privacy. The text you send rides in the link, so it can appear in the server's access logs. Keep it to what you would type into the box anyway, and leave out account numbers.
  • Analytics. We count that someone arrived by link, share or paste. We never record the text or the amount.
  • Language. The form reads English, Hindi and Marathi the way it does when you type.

FAQ

Can I make it save automatically? Not today. Every route opens the form so you can check the details first.

The Share menu does not list TrackMyRupee on Android. It must be installed from Chrome (Install app), not just bookmarked. After installing, wait a day, or install it again.

The link opens a sign-in page. You are signed out in that browser. Sign in once and the link works afterwards.

The text I shared is cut off. Only the first 300 characters are used. Share just the part with the amount and the merchant.