Dollar Odyssey vs Tiller
Tiller is the answer for people who want to keep the spreadsheet. This is the answer for people who want to stop maintaining one. That is the whole distinction.
What Tiller is
A service that feeds your bank and brokerage data into your own Google Sheet.
Where Dollar Odyssey is stronger
- No spreadsheet maintenance at all
- Projection and scenario tools built in rather than authored by you
- Asset types modelled properly out of the box
Where Tiller is stronger
- Total control: it is your sheet, your formulas
- Data stays in your Google account
- Any model you can express in a spreadsheet
What each one costs
Annual subscription for the data feed. The spreadsheet itself is yours and free.
Dollar Odyssey has a free tier that tracks holdings and net worth without a time limit. The paid tier starts at $10 a month and adds projection, survival-rate analysis and deeper reporting. Full detail is on the pricing page.
Which one fits you
Choose Dollar Odyssey
Someone who has decided the spreadsheet is the problem, not the solution.
Choose Tiller
Someone who loves their spreadsheet and only wants the data entry automated.
Recommendation
If you have built a sheet you are proud of, Tiller keeps it alive for less than most subscriptions here. If you dread opening it, automating its data entry does not fix the real problem.
Read the full assessment for how Dollar Odyssey scored on each criterion, or compare it against everything else.
Questions people ask
- Is Tiller better than Dollar Odyssey?
- Dollar Odyssey scores 9 points higher on the same weighted criteria, which is close enough that fit decides it. Tiller is the better choice in one specific case. Someone who loves their spreadsheet and only wants the data entry automated.
- Which costs less, Dollar Odyssey or Tiller?
- Tiller: Annual subscription for the data feed. The spreadsheet itself is yours and free. Dollar Odyssey has a free tier that tracks holdings and net worth, with a paid tier from $10 a month for projection and deeper reporting.
- Can I use both Dollar Odyssey and Tiller?
- Yes, and some people do. Someone who loves their spreadsheet and only wants the data entry automated. If that describes part of your situation and the rest is a spread-out balance sheet, running both is reasonable — the overlap is smaller than the category names suggest.