FinvestLens 1.2

Which one on a Mac?

Either. Both are version 1.2 from the same source, and a book is the same file whichever you use. They differ in two ways:

• Updates. The App Store version updates itself. The disk image does not; a new version is announced here and onGitHub, and you install it over the old one.
• Private Cloud Compute. Apple offers it only to apps from the App Store, so the disk image runs Apple Intelligence on your Mac alone, or a model of your own. On the App Store version it stays off unless you allow it (see the privacy policy).

Install one or the other: they are the same app to macOS.

Installing the disk image

1. Open the downloaded disk image.
2. Drag FinvestLens onto the Applications folder.
3. Open it from Applications.

Coming from GnuCash? On a Mac, choose File ▸ Import GnuCash…and pick your .gnucash file — accounts, transactions, prices, schedules and business records all come across, and you can export back at any time. The book it makes opens on your iPhone and iPad too.

Coming from the 1.1 disk image? 1.2 runs in the App Sandbox, as the App Store requires, so open each book once with File ▸ Open, a drag or the Finder; from then on it reopens by itself. The same goes for the two document folders in Settings.

Signed and notarized

The disk image is signed with Hello Tham’s Apple Developer ID and submitted to Apple for notarization, so macOS opens it without a Gatekeeper warning. You can check that for yourself before you install:

spctl --assess --type open --context context:primary-signature -vv FinvestLens-1.2.dmg

It should report:

source=Notarized Developer ID
origin=Developer ID Application: Hello Tham Pty. Ltd. (RPL5R637DS)

And to verify the download arrived intact:

shasum -a 256 FinvestLens-1.2.dmg

ad75affc22df62efb10e2a9a484bd222ee86c65f279ecbc221289faede26b3fc

On an older Mac

FinvestLens 1.2 needs macOS 27 and Apple silicon.FinvestLens 1.1 stays on GitHub for macOS 26.5 or later, on Apple silicon or Intel.

What’s in 1.2

On the App Store since 31 October 2026. The headlines; therelease notes have the rest.

• iPhone. A layout of its own: a tab for each area, a register you can read at a glance, and a form for entering a transaction.
• Investment reports, rebuilt. Capital Gains lists every parcel sold with its dates, cost base, proceeds and the ATO’s treatment, and works out the year’s net capital gain, including the changes from 1 July 2027. Investment Return is total return since you bought, with a money-weighted annual rate. New: Income, Historical Cost, Returns by Period and Drawdown.
• Price History you can read. Moving averages and their crosses, the RSI, your own trades against your average cost, the price with the income it paid, and a benchmark drawn beside it.
• Books on Box. Keep a book in your own Box account, through a Box app you set up yourself.
• Your choice of where Apple Intelligence runs. On your device, on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute if you allow it (App Store version), or with a model of your own in MLX format. A photographed or scanned invoice is read as a picture.
• Faster, and harder to lock yourself out of. Saving no longer holds the window, a keystroke searches a large book in milliseconds, and a lock left by a copy that is no longer running clears by itself.
• Everything in your language. Reports, the review decks, messages and the starter chart of accounts, in all eight languages.

The command line

finlens is a read-only, ledger-modelled reporter over your book. It is safe to run while the app has the book open — it takes no lock and never writes. Build it from source:

swift build -c release --package-path Packages/CLI

finlens -f Book.finvestlens bal ^Assets ^Liabilities
finlens -f Book.finvestlens reg Groceries -p "last month"

Full details are in the manual.

Source code

FinvestLens is free software. The complete source is onGitHub, and you are welcome to build it yourself.