Regional preferences control how the app talks to you — the interface language — and how it writes dates and amounts. They are display preferences: changing any of them alters no stored data at all, only how it appears on screen. What changes along with it is how you type: the app reads what you write in the same format it displays it.
Language
The app is available in Portuguese and English. The switch is immediate: on save, every screen is reloaded with the new language's text, with no app restart.
The chosen language also follows you here: the "Online help" buttons open these guides already in your language.
Date format
Four options, combining two choices: the day/month order, and whether the year always shows or only when the context calls for it.
| Option | How it looks | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| dd/MM and dd/MM/yyyy | Day before month, with the year only where it is needed. This is the default. | Everyday use in Brazil, mostly looking at the current month. |
| Always dd/MM/yyyy | Day before month, with the year on every date. | Anyone working a lot with old history who wants zero ambiguity. |
| MM/dd and MM/dd/yyyy | Month before day, with the year only where it is needed. | Anyone used to the US convention. |
| Always MM/dd/yyyy | The same convention, with no short form. | The same, without short dates. |
This preference does not only decide reading. With one of the MM/dd options active, every date field in the app expects the month first — in an annotation, in a filter, in an alarm. Picking MM/dd and still typing 03/12 meaning the 3rd of December stores the 12th of March.
Regardless of the preference, several lists offer a "Show full date" option in their filter panel. It applies only to that screen and is handy when you open an old period without wanting to change the whole app.
Number format
Three independent choices, with a live preview right below them — it shows a sample amount already in your main currency, and it is the quickest way to check that the combination you picked is the one you meant.
| Preference | Options |
|---|---|
| Decimal separator | Comma (0,50) or dot (0.50). |
| Thousands separator | Dot (1.234.567), comma (1,234,567), space (1 234 567) or none (1234567). |
| Cents | Show or hide. |
The default is the Brazilian one: decimal comma, thousands dot and cents in view — 1.234,56.
Edit screens keep showing and saving the full value. Hiding cents makes lists and totals cleaner without ever rounding what is stored — an amount does not lose its cents by being opened with the option on.
If you chose a dot for thousands and a dot for decimals, 1.234.56 would be impossible to read and to parse. The thousands separator wins — it is the choice with four options, made on purpose — and the decimal one automatically becomes the other character. The decimal dropdown adjusts itself right away, so it never shows one thing while the app uses another.
Typing follows the same preference
The decimal separator you pick is the one the app expects when you type, in any interface language. With the decimal comma active, write 1234,56; with the decimal dot, 1234.56.
When importing files, check on the confirmation screen whether amounts were interpreted as you expect — that is the right moment to catch a misread separator, before anything is written.
For amounts in another currency, what matters is the currency picked on the entry, not the number format. And which currency an amount is shown in — converted to the main one or as it was entered — is a separate preference, living on the Currencies & Exchange screen rather than here. See the Currencies & Exchange guide.
Saving
Regional preferences are only applied when you save. If you try to leave with pending changes, the app asks whether to discard them — so a language or format switch made by mistake is easy to undo.