// shared vault — for households

Budget together,
keep your Hunter yours

A Shared Vault is a separate vault where your partner, family or housemates track shared accounts, budgets and bills together. Up to 6 people see the same numbers, and every entry shows who added it. Your Personal vault, XP and rank stay private.

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  • Up to 6 people
  • Invitees join free
  • Personal vault stays private
Illustration of four household members logging to one shared golden vault from different places, shown on a tablet between two phones with Hunter Vault's Activity and Budget screens
// what you share

One vault for the money you share

Rent, groceries, utilities, the family emergency fund. The things everyone pays into get one place, and everyone can see them.

One budget, same numbers

Accounts, expenses, income, budgets, bills, savings goals and debts in the vault are the same for every member, and so are the reports.

  • Shared accounts and balances
  • Shared budgets, bills and goals
  • Home currency set once for the vault
Shared

A role for everyone

Choose what each person can do when you invite them. You can change a role later from Members & settings.

  • Admin: adds, edits and manages members
  • Member: adds and edits
  • Viewer: sees everything, changes nothing
4 roles

See who added what

Every entry carries the name of the person who added it, and edits show who made them.

  • "Added by" and "Edited by" on entries
  • "by you" on your own entries
  • You pick the name members see
Attribution

Invite with a link

Send an invite through Messages, WhatsApp or anything else. No email address needed.

  • Each link works once
  • Links expire after 7 days
  • Opens straight to the Join screen
No email

Stays in sync

Entries reach the other members' phones, usually within about 30 seconds. Changes made offline wait and sync when you reconnect.

  • Syncs after edits and when you open the app
  • Offline changes queue up
  • A sync line shows where things stand
Offline-tolerant

Your Personal vault stays yours

A Shared Vault is a separate space. Nothing in your Personal vault is shared, and your Hunter's progress belongs to you.

  • Personal vault never shared
  • XP, rank and quests stay private
  • Switch vaults from Home
Private

// two vaults, one app

Shared money in one vault. Your own money in another.

Most couples and families don't want to merge everything. A Shared Vault holds only what you decide to share, like the joint account, the household bills and the savings goal you're all building toward. Your Personal vault keeps working exactly as it does now, and it stays private.

  • Switch between Personal and shared from Home
  • Each vault has its own accounts and categories
  • Family, Couple or Household vault types
Illustration of a household gathered around an open golden vault while a small cyan personal safe glows separately beside one of them
// invite your party

Invite up to 5 people. Choose what each one can do.

Invites are links, so you can send them anywhere you already talk. Make your partner an admin, add a housemate as a member, or add a parent as a viewer who just wants to see how things are going. Admins can invite members and viewers, and you can change anyone's role later.

  • Admin: adds, edits and manages members
  • Member: adds and edits everything in the vault
  • Viewer: sees everything, changes nothing
  • Owner: holds the plan and can transfer it
Illustration of a vault owner holding up a glowing invite card that sends light to five people waving from portals
// everyone stays in sync

Everyone sees the same numbers.

When one person logs the groceries from the shared account, the balance drops on everyone's phone, with their name on the entry. Nobody has to ask "did you already pay the electric bill?" because the answer is in the vault. Members and admins can edit any entry, so invite people you trust. "Edited by" shows who changed what.

  • Same balances, budgets, bills and goals for everyone
  • "Added by" on every entry
  • Offline entries sync when you reconnect
  • Shared settings, like home currency, apply to everyone
Illustration of four household members in different places, each looking at a phone connected by light to one shared vault
// how it works

Set up a Shared Vault in four steps

It takes a few minutes, and your Personal vault isn't touched at any point.

  1. Create your Shared Vault

    Open the vault switcher on Home, or go to Profile → Shared Vaults, and tap Create Shared Vault. If you don't have a Shared Vault plan yet, you'll subscribe first. Then name the vault, pick Family, Couple or Household, choose a home currency, and enter the name members will see on your entries.

  2. Invite your party

    Open Members & settings, tap Invite, choose a role, and share the link. Each link works once and expires after 7 days, so make one for each person.

  3. They tap the link and join

    The link opens Hunter Vault on the Join screen. They sign in, enter their name for the vault and tap Join Shared Vault. If they don't have the app yet, the invite page links to the download, and the invite opens again once they've installed the app and signed in.

  4. Log to the right vault

    The chip at the top of Home shows which vault you're in. Add Expense and Quick Log also show Logging to with the vault's name, so a personal coffee doesn't end up in the family budget by accident.

Shared money, separate progress. Your Hunter's XP, rank and gold are personal, so budgeting with someone else never puts your progress at their mercy.

// your hunter is personal

Sharing a budget doesn't mean sharing a character.

XP goes to whoever logs

Logging in a Shared Vault earns XP for the person who logged the entry.

A partner's overspending can't cost you gold

Gold penalties and total-based checks read only your Personal vault.

Rank, quests and shop are yours

They look the same in every vault you switch to.

Shared Vault is new, and some things work differently from your Personal vault. Here's what to expect before you invite anyone.

// honest limits

What a Shared Vault doesn't do (yet).

It doesn't settle up who owes whom

There are no group balances. For one-off splits with friends, use bill splitting when you log an expense.

Huntee works in your Personal vault only

So do the home-screen widget, reminders, and backup and export.

Receipt photos stay on the phone that took them

Entries sync to everyone; attached receipts don't yet.

A new Shared Vault starts empty

You can't move existing Personal entries into it.

If two people edit the same entry, the last save wins

"Edited by" shows who changed it.

Everyone needs the app and an account

Members join on iPhone or Android and sign in. There is no web version.

Budgeting on your own never requires a subscription. A Shared Vault does, but only for the person who creates it. The current price is shown in the app, because it varies by store and region.

// pricing

One plan covers the whole party.

The owner subscribes

One Shared Vault plan, billed through the App Store or Google Play, covers everyone in the vault. It renews automatically until you cancel.

Invitees join free

Up to 5 people join with a link and pay nothing.

Cancel and nothing is deleted

The vault becomes view-only until the owner subscribes again.

No free-tier limits inside the vault

Account, budget and goal limits from the free plan don't apply in a Shared Vault.

Separate from Elite and Cloud

Hunter Elite removes the free-tier limits in your Personal vault, and Hunter Vault Cloud backs it up. Neither includes a Shared Vault; the Shared Vault plan is what lets you create and own one.

Shared entries are stored on Hunter Vault's servers so they can reach every member, and only members of that vault can read them. Roles are enforced on the server as well as in the app. Your Personal vault isn't uploaded by a Shared Vault. To back it up, use Hunter Vault Cloud. To split a single bill with friends instead, see how bill splitting compares with Splitwise.

// Related Guides
Gaming Budget for Couples: When You and Your Partner Have Different Spending Habits Hunter Vault vs Goodbudget: Sharing, Envelopes and Pricing Compared Hunter Vault vs YNAB: Which Fits You and Your Household
// questions

Frequently asked questions

A Shared Vault is a separate vault in Hunter Vault for money you manage with other people, like a family, a couple or a household. Its accounts, expenses, income, budgets, bills, savings goals and debts are the same for every member, and every entry shows who added it. It sits next to your Personal vault, and you switch between them from Home.

Up to 6 people, including you. You invite up to 5 others with a link and give each one a role: admins add, edit and manage members, members add and edit, and viewers can see everything but change nothing.

No. The owner needs a Shared Vault subscription, and one plan covers everyone in the vault. The people you invite join free, but they need the Hunter Vault app on iPhone or Android and must sign in to join.

No. Only what's in the Shared Vault is shared. Your Personal vault, XP, rank and quests stay private to you, and logging in a Shared Vault never moves anything out of your Personal vault.

The Shared Vault stays, but it becomes view-only for everyone until the owner subscribes again. Nothing is deleted. Ownership can also be transferred to another member, as long as the new owner has a Shared Vault plan.

Not in the same way. A Shared Vault gives a household one shared budget, but it doesn't keep a running balance of who owes whom or settle people up. To split a single expense with friends, use bill splitting when you log it: your share counts as your spending, and each friend's share is tracked as money they owe you.

Yes. Logging in a Shared Vault earns XP for whoever logged the entry. Checks that look at totals, and gold penalties, read only your Personal vault, so a partner's overspending never costs you gold. Your rank, quests and shop are the same in every vault.

Not yet. Huntee, the home-screen widget, reminders and backup and export all work in your Personal vault. While a Shared Vault is open, Huntee offers to switch you back to Personal.

// your next move

Start a vault for the money you share.

Update Hunter Vault on iPhone or Android, create a Shared Vault, and invite your party. The people you invite join free.

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  • Up to 6 people
  • Invitees join free
  • Nothing deleted if you cancel
See all features →
Illustration of a vault owner handing a golden key to her household in front of a glowing vault door