Maliko Labs is an independent software company in British Columbia. We build and run our own products, starting with problems we deal with ourselves. Our first is EvenHearth, a shared expense app for households.
Maliko is owned by the people who run it. There are no outside investors, so nobody outside the company decides what we build.
What we build starts with something we deal with ourselves. EvenHearth began as our own household spreadsheet.
We tell you what works today and what doesn’t yet, and we don’t sell anything we haven’t built.
We don’t sell the information you put into EvenHearth, and it has no ads. This website doesn’t set cookies.
We wanted software that handles the way our household actually splits costs, exceptions included, and that we could change whenever it didn’t fit. So we started building it ourselves.
Our household has run on a homemade spreadsheet since 2022. It works, but it’s always weeks behind. Maliko Labs is the company we set up to turn that spreadsheet into a real product, and to build what comes after it the same way.
Our first product
EvenHearthHousehold spending, fairly shared.
EvenHearth keeps track of what a household spends together, what each person spends on their own, and who owes whom when the month ends. Trips and projects run on their own ledgers.
In development for iOS, Android and Web.
Our sheet has a tab for every month, a pie chart across eleven categories, separate tables for Costco runs, and a tab called “Backyard Reno” that doesn’t belong to any month at all.
What it can’t do is keep up. Receipts pile up, last month’s review slides into the middle of this one, and then it takes a Saturday morning to type it all in.
| Date | Store | Cost | Miko only | Maya only | Split | Purchased by | Type | Paid | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 9/4/2026 | Domino’s | 37.22 | 0 | 0 | 37.22 | Miko | Restaurants | |
| 3 | 9/6/2026 | The Home Depot | 67.35 | 17.35 | 0 | 50.00 | Miko | Household | |
| 4 | 9/7/2026 | Dollarama | 26.90 | 26.90 | 0 | 0 | Miko | Misc | |
| 5 | 9/7/2026 | Tim Hortons | 7.35 | 0 | 0 | 7.35 | Miko | Restaurants | |
| 6 | 9/7/2026 | PetSmart | 73.76 | 0 | 0 | 73.76 | Miko | Pets | |
| 7 | 9/8/2026 | Save-On-Foods | 26.52 | 0 | 0 | 26.52 | Miko | Grocery |
Finance Split by Type
In the sheet$17.35 goes in Miko’s column, and the $50.00 left over is split.
Six rows from our September sheet and their chart, recreated with a few names changed.
In EvenHearthThe same carve-out, and EvenHearth does the arithmetic: Miko’s share is $42.35 and Maya’s is $25.00.
Photograph the receipt at the till or type the total. Mark what’s yours, what’s theirs and what’s shared. When the month ends, EvenHearth works out who owes whom.
A renovation or a long weekend gets its own ledger, its own budget and its own settlement, separate from the household month. Friends on a trip can join without making an account.
In development. Our own household moves over this fall.
How EvenHearth worksWrite to us if you’d like to hear when it opens.
Screens show a sample household, Maya and Miko on Cedar Street, in the real app.
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EvenHearth reads your receipts for you, and nothing it reads counts until a person has checked it.
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