Interface overview
Every version of Svodly — desktop, web, mobile — is laid out the same way. The side navigation (or the bottom tabs on a phone) takes you to the sections. Here's a short map to help you find your way around.
Main sections
| Section | What's inside |
|---|---|
| Summary | The dashboard: account balances, income and expenses for the period, top categories, budget progress. Opens by default. |
| Transactions | The full list of income, expenses and transfers. Search, filters, grouping by day and week. |
| Accounts | Cards, cash, savings, loans. Grouping and archiving. |
| Categories | A hierarchical tree of categories with icons and color. A starter set plus your own. |
| Counterparties | People and organizations you pay or get paid by. Handy for reports. |
| Budgets | Limits on categories or counterparties for a period. Warnings as you approach the limit. |
| Analytics | Reports by period, breakdowns by category and account, period comparison. |
| Books | Switching between books (personal, business), creating new ones. |
| Import | Loading transaction history from CSV, JSON or Excel. |
| Sync | Connecting Svodly Cloud, running a manual sync, devices and sessions. |
| Family / shared access | Invitations, roles and the member list of any book. In a personal book the section is called “Family access”, in a business book — “Shared access”; available when the cloud is connected. |
| Settings | Profile, default currency, theme, export, privacy policy, sign-out. |
Where things are in the mobile app
On the phone there are four main tabs at the bottom and a large + button for quick entry:
- Summary — the dashboard.
- Transactions — the list and search.
- Accounts — cards and cash.
- Cashback — cashback rules per card.
The remaining sections (Analytics, Books, Budgets, Categories, Counterparties, Family / shared access, Import & export, Backups, Settings) are tucked into the ··· menu in the corner of “Summary”. You can open them with a single tap.
Light and dark theme
By default Svodly follows your system appearance, but you can set the theme manually: Settings → Appearance → Theme. Three options — System (matches your system), Light and Dark. The choice is remembered separately on each device.
Search and filters
On the Transactions tab, search looks across amount, date, description, category and counterparty all at once. You can combine it with filters: period, account, type.
Keyboard shortcuts (desktop and web)
| Shortcut | Action |
|---|---|
| N | New transaction |
| / | Focus the search |
| G, S | Go to “Summary” |
| G, O | Go to “Transactions” |
| Esc | Close the current panel / dialog |
| Ctrl / ⌘ + K | Command palette: search by action — jumping to tabs, creating a transaction / account / category, switching the book |
Several devices at once
If you've connected the cloud, every instance of the app automatically picks up changes. With the same book open on your phone and laptop, a transaction added in one place shows up in the other within a few seconds.
More on how this works — “Sync”.