Reference

Settings reference

Six panes, every control in them, and what each one actually changes.

The Settings index on iPhone. Each row shows its live value, so you can see the current state without opening anything.

Given room, the index and the pane sit side by side — on a Mac, beside the module sidebar as well, so all three levels are visible at once:

On a Mac: modules, panes, and the selected pane, all at once.

Settings opens from the sidebar on Mac and iPad, and from the All tab's navigation bar on iPhone.

General#

Setting	Effect
Default currency	What summary figures are shown in. Records keep their own currency.
Year starts in	The month your financial year begins — April, January, or any other.
Starting on the	The day of that month it begins.
Current year	What Monestra therefore calls "this year", shown back to you so the setting is never ambiguous.

Everything that says "this year" — reports, year grouping, annual totals — reads from here, so no two screens can disagree about when your year begins.

Modules#

Show / hide any module except the Dashboard. Hiding is presentational: the data and its structure are kept, and the module returns intact when you switch it back on. Hidden modules also disappear from the Dashboard, Radar, Reports, the Assistant and Find.
Reorder within a section. Sections themselves never move.
Tab bar (iPhone only) — choose the three modules that get a tab. This list is separate from the ordering above, because the registry sorts by section, and "the first three" would therefore always be three Overview modules.

Privacy & Security#

Three sections.

Lock

Control	Default
Require Face ID / Touch ID	On
Auto-lock	After 30 seconds — also Immediately, After 2 minutes, After 5 minutes
Lock now	Locks immediately

Hiding values

Control	Default
Hide sensitive values	Off — the live mask toggle
Mask values on launch	Off — start every session masked
Auto-hide when app is backgrounded	On — re-masks when you leave the app
Require Face ID to reveal values	On — unmasking asks for authentication

Leaving this device

Control	Default
Fetch latest prices & rates	Off — the only network switch in the app
Price source	Alpha Vantage, or Twelve Data
Exchange rates / Rates as of	What was last fetched, and when
Network activity	The egress ledger: every request, by host and time

The one network switch sits in the same section as the log recording what it does. See Lock, masking and privacy and Market data and currency.

Notifications#

Reminders switches the system on, Remind me sets the lead time, and Deliver at sets the hour. Under On the lock screen, Show amounts decides whether figures may appear there — off by default. Scheduled reminders shows how many are currently queued. Below that, one switch per module and event type. See Notifications.

Backup & Restore#

Four sections:

Snapshots — sealed backups kept inside the app.
Off-device backup — export and import a portable .monestrabackup file.
Where your data lives — including Sync, which reports the mode the store was actually opened with. This is where iCloud sync lives. See iCloud sync.
Danger zone — Erase everything.

See Backup and restore.

About#

Version and build, and Legal — the disclaimer in full, offline, plus the privacy policy, terms and third-party notices.