Frequently Asked Questions

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General information

What is Brills?

Brills is an app made to help you quickly calculate your disposable income.

Basically, you tell Brills how much money you earn per month, then you give it a list of your monthly outgoings—phone bills, car insurance payments, magazine subscriptions, all that stuff. Then, Brills will deduct all that stuff from your income and tell you how much money you have left to spend on… everything else you want in life. That's it. It's not a complicated or powerful application, but its simplicity is where its strength lies.

It’s also important to note that the information you enter is never shared with any third parties. All data is stored and fetched from a database provided by Supabase, a widely used service for user authentication and database storage.

What information do you need from me?

To sign up, all Brills your email address. We'll send you a link to confirm your account and log in. Then you tell Brills approximately how much money you'll earn each month, as well as your fixed outgoing costs—things like phone bills and whatnot.

While the information you give to Brills is stored securely in a database, it is not encrypted. Information about your income and outgoings is stored as-is, so in the unlikely event that the database is compromised, that data will be visible.

However, we aren't storing any sensitive data like credit card numbers or addresses. We just need to let you know. If you are looking for something with high level security and a lot more features, check out Mint.

Will you ever contact me?

Brills will only ever email you to confirm your account and logins.

If we do start sending out emails, we'll give you the chance to opt-out by signing into your account and changing your email preferences.

Getting started

How do I change my income and other information?

That's easy too. If you’re signed in, just click on Account at the top of the page in order to change your account information.

Can I delete my account?

If you don't want to use Brills any more, just go to your Account and click 'Delete Account'. Confirm you want to delete your account, and it'll completely remove your information from our system.

Help! My currency isn't in your list!

Not a problem. If you want a currency adding that isn't there already, simply tweet @brillsapp and let me know. I'll try my best to add it to Brills shortly.

If you think I’ve missed anything or if you have any more questions, let me know—send a tweet to @brillsapp.