ZecBooks — Retroactive Grant Application (Q3 2026)
Ask: $32,000 USD
FPF GitHub issue: Financial-Privacy-Foundation/ZcashCoinholderGrantsProgram #38
Product: zecbooks.app
Download: zecbooks.app/download (notarized ZecBooks 0.1.1)
Source repo: GitHub - sane-apps/SaneBooks: Mac-native view-only Zcash books: import UFVK, classify notes, export scoped proof packs. Cannot spend. · GitHub (MIT)
Provenance: docs/ZecBooks-0.1.1-PROVENANCE.md on that repo
SHA-256: 25578ef64874705f2f73ca9f23193a6ddd873a33a05339b284b0af1bec243308
Why this exists
A lot of people assume privacy coins are about hiding from taxes. That is not why I built this, and it is not why most Zcash users care about shielded money. I believe people have a right to financial privacy and still want to keep clean books. ZecBooks is the Mac layer for that: import a view-only key, classify income and change honestly, then send your accountant a locked package of the rows they need — without giving them lasting access to your wallet.
Private money, kept with honest books.
CipherPay gets you paid privately. ZBooks runs team treasury. ZecBooks is the Mac bookkeeping layer after money arrives.
What shipped
- Notarized ZecBooks 0.1.1 (Developer ID)
- View-only UFVK/UIVK import; refuses seeds/spend keys
- Live lightwalletd sync (ZcashLightClientKit 2.7.0-rc.4)
- Classification + encrypted proof packs + Reader
- Settings → About → Report Public Issue
Verify in five minutes
- Download ZecBooks-0.1.1.zip from zecbooks.app/download and check SHA-256 matches the provenance doc
- Unzip →
spctl -a -vv -t exec ZecBooks.app(expect Notarized Developer ID) - Read MIT LICENSE + CONTRIBUTING.md on the GitHub repo
Note: brand-new forum account (trust level 0) cannot create a category topic or post raw URLs yet. Full clickable links are in FPF issue #38. Happy to answer questions here or there during review.
Happy to answer questions in this thread during the review period.