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Is your side income enough to quit on?

FireBar puts every side income stream in one place, then answers the question you are actually asking — not “what did I earn this month”, but “what can I count on next month”.

The bar is your monthly target. Clear it, and quitting becomes a real conversation.

First, a definition

We don’t call it MRR

Side income is overwhelmingly one-off: a consultation, a template sale, one month’s ad revenue share. None of that is recurring in the SaaS sense. Summing it up and calling it MRR means using a metric that assumes sustainability to analyse sustainability.

Likewise, an annual figure computed as “this month × 12” lies to you — one large order inflates it into a fantasy. In FireBar the annual figure is the trailing twelve months actually received.

These look like details, but you are going to make a resignation decision with these numbers. A tool that flatters you is worse than no tool at all.

Sustainability = three separate questions

Enough · Steady · Spread

Most trackers answer only the first. The other two are where people get hurt.

Is it enough

Replacement rate in three readings at once: this month, six-month median, and the worst month. For a resignation decision, the worst month matters more than the median.

Is it steady

The strongest signal isn’t “I hit the target this month” — it’s consecutive months on target. One spike and six straight months are not the same thing.

Is it spread

Looks diversified, but three quarters of it comes from one platform — one policy change and it’s gone. FireBar says so out loud.

Capture

Take a screenshot. That’s the whole workflow.

Set up an iOS Shortcut once. After that, one press of the Action button on any order page: screenshot taken, sent into the app, amount, date and source recognised. You just confirm.

Anything the parser isn’t sure about is left blank and highlighted — never pre-filled with a suspicious number. This is financial data; we don’t guess. If you’re offline or recognition fails, the draft is kept intact: retry, or just type it in.

Privacy

We can’t reach your income data

Your records live on your device and in your own iCloud. We have no access.
Screenshots are never uploaded. Text recognition happens on device; only the recognised text is sent for parsing.
No accounts, no ads, no third-party analytics SDKs, no cross-app tracking.
The parsing service writes nothing to disk and logs no request content.

We cannot control retention by third-party LLM providers — some retain API requests for a period for abuse monitoring. That’s stated plainly in the privacy policy.

Pricing

Capture is free forever

Manual entry and data export are unlimited and free forever — you typed that data in yourself; it shouldn’t be held hostage.

A future subscription unlocks insight: full history, the three replacement-rate readings, concentration analysis, and AI capture (which has a real per-use cost). Version one is entirely free.