Offline use and privacy

Your phone does the work first, then syncs in the background. Your groups are locked on your phone.

Use Rata offline

• You can open your groups, add expenses and record payments with no signal.
• Rata keeps the changes on your device and sends them when you are online again.
• When the group is not up to date, the top of the group shows a word like Offline. When it syncs, the word goes away.
• A group that is not on your device yet, for example a new invite link, needs the internet one time.
• Currency rates are from the last time you were online.

Live sync

When two people add expenses at the same time, both expenses stay. Other phones in the group get each change in a few seconds. When you come back to Rata, it gets the changes at once.

Who can read your groups

• Each group has its own random key. The key is in the invite link after the # sign. Browsers do not send that part of a link to a server.
• Your phone locks (encrypts) each expense, payment, note, UPI ID and bill photo before it leaves the phone.
• Our server keeps only locked data. It cannot read names, amounts or notes.
• Only people with the invite link can read the group.
• Rata has no ads and does not track you.

Read more in the privacy policy and on the security page.

Remove a group

• To remove a group from your phone, open the group settings and tap Remove from this device. The group stays for the other people.
• To delete a group from the server, write to hello@rata.fyi.

A new phone

Your groups are on your device. On a new phone, sign in and open the invite link of each group again. All the data comes back from the server. Keep your invite links in a safe place, for example in a WhatsApp chat with yourself.