ZecBooks — Retroactive Grant Application (Q3 2026)
Ask: $32,000 USD
FPF issue: Retroactive Grant Application - ZecBooks · Issue #38 · Financial-Privacy-Foundation/ZcashCoinholderGrantsProgram · GitHub
Product: https://zecbooks.app
Download: https://zecbooks.app/download
Provenance (SHA-256 + notarization): SaneBooks/docs/ZecBooks-0.1.1-PROVENANCE.md at main · sane-apps/SaneBooks · GitHub
Source: GitHub - sane-apps/SaneBooks: Mac-native view-only Zcash books: import UFVK, classify notes, export scoped proof packs. Cannot spend. · GitHub
License: MIT
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 handing over lasting wallet access.
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) via https://dist.zecbooks.app/updates/ZecBooks-0.1.1.zip
- SHA-256:
25578ef64874705f2f73ca9f23193a6ddd873a33a05339b284b0af1bec243308 - 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
curl -fsSL -o ZecBooks-0.1.1.zip https://dist.zecbooks.app/updates/ZecBooks-0.1.1.zip && shasum -a 256 ZecBooks-0.1.1.zip- Unzip →
spctl -a -vv -t exec ZecBooks.app(expect Notarized Developer ID) - Read MIT LICENSE + CONTRIBUTING.md on GitHub
Happy to answer questions in this thread during the review period.
(Earlier CFP reply was under trust-level-0 limits. This is the dedicated Retroactive Grants topic with full links.)