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What we have built into Jamvi, what changed, and what it means for your money and your group's.
Ask Jamvi: a money helper that talks like a friend
Ask Jamvi reads your own M-Pesa, budget, debts and chama contributions, answers in English, Swahili or Sheng, gives saving tips from your real numbers and takes you to the right screen.
3 min read19 October 2026
Run a side business? Jamvi keeps its money apart from yours
For Kenyans with a shop, a rental or a side hustle: Jamvi counts your salary the moment it leaves the business, tracks rent or commission, takes repairs off the right income and shows where every loan came from.
4 min read19 October 2026
Go to, and the small things that make Jamvi easier every day
Go to finds any Jamvi screen in a few letters. Plus M-Pesa times on every entry, money back from friends, a tick box before any bulk change, and balances that explain themselves.
3 min read19 October 2026
From a screenshot to every phone in an afternoon
How Jamvi went from one suggestion on a screenshot to a release on every phone and the web on 5 October 2026: planning on subcategories, categories that total themselves, and the checks that keep it safe.
4 min read8 October 2026
Plan Groceries, not Food: a simpler start in Jamvi
Setting up Jamvi now asks you to plan Groceries, Rent and Fuel rather than one big figure for Food, Housing and Transport. Each category totals its subcategories, you can add your own, and Everyday budgeting comes picked.
3 min read8 October 2026
How far Jamvi has come, and what it does for you
Six weeks after launch, Jamvi turns a month of M-Pesa into a sorted budget in minutes. What we shipped since August, and what it means for you, your family and your chama.
5 min read8 October 2026
From a year of M-Pesa to a budget you trust
How Jamvi turns months of M-Pesa statements into a sorted budget at your own pace: confirm what you know, save the rest as Not sure, and check every shilling against your statement.
4 min read8 October 2026
One Jamvi on your phone and the web, for you and your group
Everything Jamvi does on your phone now works on the web too. Budgets that remember their history, groups that work like your own budget, Undo, and one link to get the Android app.
3 min read8 October 2026