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Plain tools for a brighter life.

Candora builds products in three fields: technology, social and education. The first can already be used today.

See what we makeTry Mony

Three fields

Three fields, each with something to show.

Candora wants to be a home for products that make people’s lives brighter: technology that can be trusted, social ties that look after one another, and education open to everyone.

  • Technology

    To build digital products that are clear about what they do, what data they take and what they cost. Light, fast, comfortable for ordinary people, and verifiable where trust matters.

    Available to try · early version

    Mony by Candora

    A money-tracking app. Free today, with no ads.

    See Mony

  • Social

    To build tools that help people look after each other from afar, that respect their time and attention, are not made to be addictive, and give part of the results back.

    Coming soon

    Remote alarm

    An app that sets off an alarm for someone else from afar. The app exists, but it has no public link yet. We promise no date.

  • Education

    To share what we learn openly, in plain Indonesian: tools and material for digital skills and financial literacy, and room for young people to learn by doing real work.

    Available

    Belajar

    Six guides, a 50/30/20 calculator and a monthly budget template.

    The guides are in Indonesian.

    Open Belajar

  • Blockchain-based attendance

    Exploration

    Still an idea being explored. There is nothing to try yet.

How to read the phases

New moon
an idea, being explored
Crescent
coming soon, not yet open
Half moon
usable today, still early
Full moon
mature. Nothing has reached this yet.

What you can use today

Available to try · early version

Mony by Candora

Know what’s left before the month ends.

Mony is a money-tracking app. Record spending in about three taps, then see what is left in each budget right away. Free today, with no ads, and it never asks for your bank password.

See Mony

The Mony home screen on a phone: total balance, this month’s income and spending, and what is left in each budget.
App screenshot. The figures are sample data.

How we build

Three things we do not do.

  1. Show ads

    Your screen holds your own business and nothing else. No banners, no promotions slipped in between your records.

  2. Sell your data

    Your records stay your business. We do not sell them to anyone.

  3. Ask for your bank password

    Mony never asks for a bank password. You record things yourself, or upload a transaction-history PDF.

What we hold to

Honesty first
No claim that cannot be proven.
Clarity
Plain language about how things work, what they cost, and data.
Useful before impressive
A product has to help first.
Patient growth
Like the moon, one phase at a time.
Giving back
What we learn, we share.

The name

A word for light that came to mean honesty.

Candora is a coined word from the Latin candor. At first it meant brightness, a shining whiteness. Later the same word came to mean sincerity and honesty.

The word also reaches the moon. In Sanskrit the moon is candra. Etymologists think candra and the Latin candēre, “to shine”, share one Indo-European root. It is a proposed kinship, not a borrowing.

The lineage of the word Candora

One Indo-European root

Latin

  1. candēreto shine
  2. candorbrightness, later honesty
  3. Candoracoined word

Sanskrit

  1. candramoon

Dashed lines mark a proposed kinship, not a certain one.

Light and honesty are the same thing. What is honest has nothing to hide, so it is bright.

Like the moon.

  • It does not dazzle.
  • It lights the way when it is dark.
  • It has phases, and it always returns to full.

The name is a prayer: honest, radiant, a blessing to others, and a good future.

Where we are now

Very early, and we say so plainly.

Candora is an Indonesian brand at a very early stage. One app can be tried today, its learning material can be read, one more app is not open to the public yet, and one is still an idea. You will find no user numbers, client logos or testimonials on this site.

Contact

A contact address is on its way.

Candora does not have a public email address yet. When it does, it will be listed here. Until then, the best way to get to know Candora is to try Mony.

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