I'm Samith, an Android developer from Dhaka.
I built RemitDiary because of something I kept seeing and it bothered me every time.
The pattern
Across South Asia and Southeast Asia, millions of people leave to work abroad. Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan. They go to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Malaysia, Qatar, the UK. They work hard for years. They send money home every month without fail.
And then they come back.
Some of them come back and they're fine. They bought land. Built a house. Paid for their children's education. The years away meant something.
But a lot of them come back essentially broke. Not because they didn't earn. Not because they didn't send. The money was going out consistently for five, eight, ten years. But there was no record, no running total, no breakdown of where it went. The years passed and when they got back there was nothing solid to point to.
I've seen this with my own eyes. And every time I heard another version of the same story it bothered me, because the failure wasn't effort or commitment. It was the complete absence of tools built for these people.
What was missing
There are apps for everything. Investment trackers, budgeting tools, banking dashboards. But they're all built for someone with a single bank account in a single country.
Not for a Filipino worker in Riyadh tracking SAR to PHP transfers. Not for a Sri Lankan in Malaysia who needs to remember when his work permit expires. Not for an Indian guy in Dubai who wants to show his parents that over four years he's sent the equivalent of their whole neighbourhood's annual income.
Nobody built that. So I did.
The Sacrifice Report
This is the feature I cared about most to get right.
The financial tracking matters. But I wanted to give workers something they could show their families. Not just a list of transfers but the full story. Total sent. Where it went. How close they are to the big goal they're working toward.
The first time someone sent their Sacrifice Report to their family WhatsApp group and their mother called crying, I knew it was the right idea.
A few things
RemitDiary is free. No subscription, no hidden anything.
Your data is private. I'm not selling anything to anyone.
This is a solo project and I built it because it matters, not because it's the easiest thing to build. If something doesn't work right or you have feedback, email me at hello@remitdiary.com. I actually read it.
And if you know someone working abroad who'd benefit from this, tell them. Word of mouth is how this reaches the people who need it most.
Download RemitDiary free on Google Play.
Samith