Buying a house costs 8–15% more than the price tag — notary, taxes, registration, mortgage fees, renovations, furniture. CasaTab is a focused tracker for exactly that project: log every cost in 14 purchase-specific categories, attach receipts, set a purchase budget, and see in real time what the house actually costs. It includes serious mortgage tracking: French/Italian amortization, fixed/variable/mixed rates with Euribor auto-updated daily, extra repayments and what-if comparisons.
I built this while buying my own flat, after realising around week six that my spreadsheet had quietly stopped being true.
The mortgage was never the hard part, every bank has a calculator for that. It's everything around it. In Spain the taxes and fees on a purchase run about 7-11% of the price depending on the region, and none of it is financed. You pay it in cash, in pieces, over roughly eight months. Then the kitchen quote comes back 30% over. Then you need a fridge.
Spreadsheets fail here for a boring reason: you stop updating them exactly when it gets busy. So CasaTab is built so the running total stays honest. 14 categories specific to a purchase, receipts attached to the line they belong to, and your partner logging their own spending so "who paid what" doesn't turn into an argument in November.
The mortgage side got more serious than I planned: French and Italian amortisation, fixed/variable/mixed with Euribor pulled daily from the ECB, extra repayments modelled both ways, what-if comparisons.
Two things I'd defend if pushed. There's no analytics of any kind inside the app, none, not even anonymised. And there's no subscription, it's 49 euros/USD once per house. Buying a home ends, so charging rent for it felt wrong.
Free for one house with no card. There's also a free Spanish calculator I put up last week that works out what you need saved before signing, by region: casatab.com/es/calculadora-gastos-compra-vivienda/
Solo dev, so I'm around all day. Happy to be told where it's wrong.
I built this while buying my own flat, after realising around week six that my spreadsheet had quietly stopped being true.
The mortgage was never the hard part, every bank has a calculator for that. It's everything around it. In Spain the taxes and fees on a purchase run about 7-11% of the price depending on the region, and none of it is financed. You pay it in cash, in pieces, over roughly eight months. Then the kitchen quote comes back 30% over. Then you need a fridge.
Spreadsheets fail here for a boring reason: you stop updating them exactly when it gets busy. So CasaTab is built so the running total stays honest. 14 categories specific to a purchase, receipts attached to the line they belong to, and your partner logging their own spending so "who paid what" doesn't turn into an argument in November.
The mortgage side got more serious than I planned: French and Italian amortisation, fixed/variable/mixed with Euribor pulled daily from the ECB, extra repayments modelled both ways, what-if comparisons.
Two things I'd defend if pushed. There's no analytics of any kind inside the app, none, not even anonymised. And there's no subscription, it's 49 euros/USD once per house. Buying a home ends, so charging rent for it felt wrong.
Free for one house with no card. There's also a free Spanish calculator I put up last week that works out what you need saved before signing, by region: casatab.com/es/calculadora-gastos-compra-vivienda/
Solo dev, so I'm around all day. Happy to be told where it's wrong.