Daftari and Hisaab: the talking record book for small businesses
Launching first in Kenya, then India
A simple Android record keeper that works fully by voice with TalkBack. Built first for blind and low-vision business owners, and simple enough for anyone. It is called Daftari in Kenya and Hisaab in India.
Built for voice
- Works with TalkBack from the very first screen.
- Speaks the totals first, so you hear what matters before the detail.
- Confirms every entry with a vibration, so you know it was saved.
- Finds a customer even when a name is misheard or misspelled, and suggests what you meant.
Works anywhere, no signal needed
- Runs completely offline. Tested in airplane mode.
- No account and no login needed to use your own records.
Your records stay yours
- Every record is kept on the owner's own phone, not on a company's servers.
- Nothing leaves the phone without the owner's say.
Records a lender can trust
- Add-only history: a correction is added as a new entry and never overwrites the old one.
- A complete, honest record that supports applications for loans and tenders.
Money in, money out
- Track credit given to customers (udhar), cash, and payments received.
- Kenya: record the M-Pesa reference with each payment.
- India: record UPI payment references (GPay, PhonePe, Paytm, BHIM) alongside cash and credit.
For government and disability programmes
- Kenya: a checklist for the AGPO programme.
- India: NHFDC loan repayments and Udyam turnover records.
- Programme reports for the agencies that fund and support business owners.
Programme reports are being added in stages.
Coming next
- Export your records to Excel.
- The same records on a desktop computer.
Get in touch
Running a programme for blind or low-vision entrepreneurs? We'd like to talk about a pilot.