The Spend Stack Revival

// Written by Jordan Morgan // Aug 31st, 2026 // Read it in about 1 minutes // RE: The Indie Dev Diaries

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Ah, Spend Stack. I’m pleased to announce that everyone’s favorite finance app/running total list thingy/do-it-all-calculator-with-1000-use-cases-but-not-one-clearly-defined is coming back from the dead…again! The previous owners, who had let me open source it, have given me back full IP rights. She’s back home:

If you need a refresher, Spend Stack was my first indie darling. It was well received among press and had a few fans over at Apple, but I never could quite figure out what exactly it was (spoiler, I still haven’t) or how to monetize it. It was originally sold around the covid-era, with a blog post from me covering the details here:

***Deep breath***

👋 Hi friends

It's with a wide range of emotions, but the biggest one being excitement, that I've got some personal news to share:

Spend Stack has been acquired.https://t.co/6HY9wn9vvd

— Jordan Morgan (@JordanMorgan10) December 3, 2020

And, so it is, nearly six years later, I guess Spend Stack has a new home, again. Which is back home! For now, I’m not going to change much about it, here’s my plan:

1. This thing is old. Most of it is in Objective-C. I have Codex on a loop modernizing it now. I’ll get it buiding in a Swift-first rewrite.
2. Then, I’ll integrate modern APIs such as GRDB and CKSyncEngine.
3. I’ll make the app free (it launched as a paid up front app), with an optional $9.99/yr sub for cloud sync.
4. And once it’s stable, I’ll open it up for TestFlight.

It warms my heart that, years and years later, I’ll still get a random, out-of-the-blue Spend Stack message from someone. I don’t know where it goes from here, but I can bring it back as it once was without too much hassle in the age of agents. And, if we’ve become internet friends post-Spend Stack era, here’s most of what I wrote about it if you’d like to catch up:

• Introducing Spend Stack
• A Best In Class App: Spend Stack Checkup
• Creating a Retail Demo for Apple
• The Big Update
• Spend Stack: Year One
• A New Home for Spend Stack
• Remembering My First App
• So Long, Old Friend
• Spend Stack is Now Open Source

Here’s to new, old beginnings!

Until next time ✌️