Free Feature

Today's Tip

Today's tip is a small card on the Home screen that shows you one feature a day. Tap it and you get a short walkthrough of that feature — two or three real screenshots of the app with a line under each one saying what to do — followed by a Try it button that takes you straight to the screen where the feature lives, and a Learn more button that opens its help article.

There's nothing to set up. The day you install or update the app there's no tip; from the next day the card appears on its own, one tip per day, and it only covers things you haven't used yet: if you've already set up a budget, you won't be shown the budgets tip. On a day the What's New card is showing after an update, there's no tip — the two never appear together.

Opening and dismissing a tip

Tapping the card opens the walkthrough. Tapping the × in its corner dismisses it. Either way, that tip is retired from the daily card: it stays on Home for the rest of the day if you opened it (so you can look again), and it is gone once the day ends. A tip you never touched isn't lost — it goes to the back of the queue and comes around again on a later day, once the tips you haven't seen yet have had their turn. You never get the same tip two days running.

Pro tips

Some tips describe Pro features. They're shown to everyone. The Tips list marks them with a PRO badge on every plan; on a free account the Home card carries the same badge, so you know before you open one. The walkthrough itself is the same for everyone — you can read all of it. The only difference is the button at the end: on a free account it reads Upgrade to Pro rather than Try it, and opens the upgrade screen instead of the feature.

Per device, not synced

Which tips you've seen is stored on the device you saw them on. It does not sync with your other devices or with your partner in Partner Mode, so a phone and a tablet on the same account each work through the tips on their own schedule.

The Tips list

Every tip, whether it has been shown yet or not, is in the Tips list. There are two ways in: the small progress ring in the top-left corner of your Home screen, and Settings → Tips. Tap any row to open the same walkthrough the Home card shows. The list is the permanent home for tips — dismissing a card never loses it.

Each row shows which version of Pocket Clear the feature arrived in (Since 2.17, for example; features that have been there from the start say 1.00). A green check means you've done it, and done rows sink to the bottom so what's left to try stays at the top.

• What counts as done. For most tips, done means you've actually used the feature, read from data already on your device: you have a budget, you've linked a partner, you've placed the widget. Just reading the tip doesn't tick it. A few tips have nothing the app can check (how to change the view period, for example), and those tick once you've opened or dismissed them.
• Not for me. Open a tip you'll never use and tap Not for me. It counts as done, sinks with the done rows, and keeps an Undo if you change your mind. Using the feature later always wins.
• What's new. After an update, the list opens on What's new in <version>, showing only the features that arrived in that version, each with a New badge until you open it. Tap All to see everything. When an update brings no new tips, the list simply shows them all.

The Home ring

The ring in the top-left corner of Home counts tips done out of all tips, for example 12/50. Tap it to open the Tips list. When every tip is done or set to Not for me, the ring disappears. You can also hide it from Settings → Appearance → Hide on Home; your progress keeps being tracked underneath.

The ring used to open a separate Setup guide checklist. That checklist is now part of this list: every step it had is a tip, with the same done check.