Meridian
Local-first · household finance

Your entire financial life. Tracked locally. Encrypted always.

Net worth, holdings, crypto, retirement projections, an estate-planning vault, and an AI advisor that reasons over your real numbers — one consolidated picture for a household, with no account to sign up for and no server watching.

v0.12.0 · macOS & Windows No account required Zero telemetry
0
floating-point numbers in the money math — every value is exact decimal
24
word recovery phrase. Lose your password, not your vault
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servers. Sync rides your own cloud folder — Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive
3
surfaces, one vault — desktop, iPhone companion, and a watch face
Everything, one picture

Built for a household, not a spreadsheet

Every tab reads from the same encrypted vault — nothing here is a separate app bolted on after the fact.

Overview & concentration risk

Net worth by asset class and account, tracked over real history — plus the two numbers most portfolios never show you: how concentrated you are in one position, and exactly what a 50% decline in it would cost you.

Crypto & wallets

Exchange holdings and self-custody wallets on one ledger — allocation, price action per token, and on-chain balances you can monitor separately, with a choice to include each wallet in your net worth or just watch it.

Retirement, honestly modeled

A Monte Carlo simulation against your real holdings and spending — not one optimistic projection, but a spread of outcomes and your actual probability of the plan surviving to ninety-five.

Household, without shared passwords

Combine two net worths into one picture, member by member — controlled from Settings, with neither person ever seeing the other's password or raw account numbers.

Holdings, stocks & options

Every position, every account, valued live — cost basis, gain, and portfolio weight. Options tracked down to the day they expire, so nothing quietly lapses worthless.

Vault & life planning

Passports and identity documents with expiration tracking. State-specific wills, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives Claude drafts for you behind a mandatory disclaimer, plus a remote-notary directory and a one-click printable Go Bag.

Advisor, five ways

Ask it anything about your actual numbers. Bring your own key for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or Grok, run a fully local model, or — on Quasar — ask Apple Intelligence entirely on-device, nothing sent anywhere.

Alerts that pay for themselves

Meridian flags the same charge hitting twice in a few days, and separately, active subscriptions quietly competing for the same job — two streaming services you forgot you're paying for both of. Handle it in one click.

Quasar — Face ID, Siri, on-device

The iOS companion, full read/write, not a read-only viewer. Face ID unlocks it, Siri can ask your Advisor hands-free, and it shows up on Apple Watch as a glance — net worth, cash, and debt, no app to open.

See it running

A full tour, and the companions

Screen recordings of the real app — nothing staged.

Full walkthrough

Every tab, start to finish — Overview through Vault, including the five-way Advisor.

Onboarding

Vault creation through first launch — also a real setup guide.

Quasar — iOS companion

Pairing, Face ID unlock, and the on-device Advisor — full read/write parity, paired from desktop.

Meridian Watch

Net worth, cash vs. debt, and top holdings on your wrist.

The threat model, plainly

Lose the password, recover with the phrase. Lose both, it's gone.

By design — there is no support ticket that gets your data back, because there is no one else holding a copy of the key.

Encryption
Vault password derives a key via Argon2id, which wraps a master key. The master key encrypts an append-only log with XChaCha20-Poly1305.
Recovery
A 24-word kit generated at setup, shown once. Meridian never sees your password and cannot reset it — the phrase is the only fallback.
Sync
Two ways, both encrypted end to end: direct peer-to-peer over an encrypted connection (required before pairing a phone), or by writing encrypted logs into a folder any consumer cloud client already syncs — Google Drive, iCloud, Dropbox, OneDrive. Either way, Meridian never talks to a cloud API and never holds a cloud credential.
Money math
Every quantity and value is rust_decimal::Decimal. No f64 anywhere in the domain code — floating point silently corrupts cost basis.
Telemetry
None. No analytics, no crash reporting phoning out, no account to sign up for.
Get it

No account. Updates itself.

Latest release: v0.12.0

macOS (Apple Silicon or Intel) and Windows (64-bit). Once installed, Meridian checks for and applies updates on its own — this is the only download you'll need.

Also coming to the Mac App Store as Meridian Household Finance ($9.99, one-time) — same app, with Quasar free for iOS and watchOS once paired. Currently in Apple review.

First launch warns the app is unsigned — here's why, and the one-time fix

Meridian isn't signed with a paid developer certificate. macOS: right-click Meridian → Open → Open. If it still refuses, run once in Terminal: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Meridian.app. Windows: on the SmartScreen prompt, click More info → Run anyway. One-time per install — silent after that.