Connect your bank accounts once and Cilantro does the watching - odd charges, bill creep, auto-detected trip recaps, and a weekly "here's what changed." No budgets, no tagging. Works solo, better with a partner. Read-only, no ads, no data sales.
Hey PH, I'm Gene, I built Cilantro solo.
Every finance app I tried wanted me to *work* - set budgets, tag transactions, check a dashboard. I just wanted to know when something was off. Cilantro is the inversion of that: link your accounts and it surfaces only what changed - an unusual charge, a bill that crept up, a duplicate, a trip it recapped for you automatically.
If you share finances with a partner, you can flag a charge and ask them about it inside the app (no more "what was this $80?" texts).
It's iOS + Android, built on Plaid, completely read-only - it never moves money and I don't sell data. Free to try, subscription after a 7-day preview.
I'd love feedback, especially on the observe-only bet - would you trade budgeting controls for "just tell me what changed"?
About Cilantro on Product Hunt
“Watches your accounts and tells you what changed”
Cilantro launched on Product Hunt on June 17th, 2026 and earned 75 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Connect your bank accounts once and Cilantro does the watching - odd charges, bill creep, auto-detected trip recaps, and a weekly "here's what changed." No budgets, no tagging. Works solo, better with a partner. Read-only, no ads, no data sales.
On the analytics side, Cilantro competes within iOS, Fintech and Personal Finance — topics that collectively have 160.3k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Cilantro performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Cilantro?
Cilantro was hunted by Gene Drabkin. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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