How to read your statistics in Penge

What does the Statistics tab show?

One period at a time, starting with the current month. The header gives income and expenses for that period, the bar row moves you between months or years, and the list underneath breaks the period down by category group, category or tag. Reserved transactions are left out of every figure.

Move between months with the bars

The row of paired bars gives one green income bar and one red expense bar per period. Tap a pair to switch the whole screen to that period, and tap the selected pair again to clear it and see all-time totals instead. Bars are scaled against the largest figure in the row, so the same height means different money in different months.

Income against expenses

• Incoming on the left is money in. Outgoing on the right is money out, shown as a negative amount.
• The Avg: line under each total is a trailing average of the last six completed months, or the last three completed years in Year aggregation. It always skips the current period and skips periods with nothing in them, so it is not the average of the bars you can see.
• Both totals are buttons. Tapping one keeps only income or only expenses, and the same choice sits in the In/out chip as Money in and Money out. That filter is shared with the Transactions tab.

The three breakdowns

• Category Groups is the default. Tapping a group row expands it in place; only the category rows inside it open a transaction list.
• Categories lists every category, plus two rows for money with no category at all: Uncategorized income and Uncategorized expenses.
• Tags lists the tags used in the period, favourites first. A transaction with two tags counts in full under both, so the tag totals can add up to more than the period's spending. It is not a division of what you spent.

The donut chart

The pie-chart icon at the right end of the chip row puts a donut above the list. It plots expenses only, for whichever breakdown is selected, and income never appears in it. Tapping a segment dims the rest and filters the list to it; tapping the middle of the ring clears that again. The chart is hidden by default and does not remember its state, so it is hidden again the next time you open the screen.

The settings popover

The sliders icon in the top right of the navigation bar opens four controls.

• Month or Year. Switching also jumps the selection to the current month or year rather than keeping you where you were, and Penge remembers which of the two you last used.
• Apply modifiers, on by default. With it on, tag and account percentages are already worked into every figure on the screen.
• Show excluded categories, off by default. This is why money you move into Saving is missing from your statistics until you turn it on.
• Show percentage, on by default. Income rows and expense rows are each their own hundred percent, and inside an expanded group the child rows are shares of that group.