What's new at Sweep

If you get a new phone, or lose the old one, getting back into Sweep is now one simple path. Tap Restore account, sign in with your email, and enter your twelve recovery words. Your wallet, your profile and your bank connection all come back, and you carry on where you left off.

Typing twelve words on a phone keyboard is easy to get wrong, so Sweep now checks each word as you go. If one isn't right, it tells you which one and suggests the word you probably meant.

One of our testers put it to the real test this week. They restored their account on a completely different device, and everything came back first time.

Two smaller changes went out alongside it. Sign out now does exactly that: it signs you out of Sweep on that phone, and your bitcoin stays in your wallet. And the videos and podcasts on the home screen now play inside Sweep, with a Done button that brings you straight back.

Most of this week's work is the kind you never see, but it all has to be in place before Sweep goes live.

You can now close your Sweep account from inside the app. It stops your round-ups, disconnects your bank and closes the account. Your wallet stays on your phone and stays yours.

iPhone and Android updates now go out together, on the same day, so Android users are never left waiting.

The first step of sign-up now knows where Sweep is ready. The United States goes forward. Brazil is open to invited testers, and Mexico is next. Everywhere else gets a plain "Sweep isn't here yet" instead of a sign-up that fails halfway.

We also looked further ahead. In testing, a round-up was taken from a UK bank account, and money went out to banks in Germany, France, Switzerland and the UK. More on where that leads in "Where Sweep goes after the US".

The website changed too. The Portuguese version has been rewritten with help from a Brazilian native speaker, so it reads the way people in Brazil really talk about money. And our privacy statement now has a section for people in the United States.

Sweep has started testing in its first two markets outside the United States. Purchases from Brazilian and Mexican test bank accounts have been rounded up and saved as bitcoin, in reais and pesos, using the same Sweep that already works in the US.

Brazil was tested end to end in the app. A new account signed up, connected a test bank, and watched its first round-ups land in its own wallet as sats. Mexico was tested the same way behind the scenes.

New countries brought new lessons. Sweep had to learn local bank language, so it can tell a purchase at a shop from a cash withdrawal or a transfer, in Spanish and Portuguese as well as English.

This is still testing, with test money. Some pieces, like topping up and withdrawing in local currency, are still to come. Sweep is launching in the United States first. Brazil and Mexico are its first steps beyond that.

sweepapp.io has had a full refresh. It now matches the app, in white and orange, with Sweepy the broom front and centre.

The new site explains Sweep in plain words. You spend as normal, Sweep rounds up each purchase, and the spare change lands as bitcoin in a wallet that only you control. It walks through how it works, what the app does, and how Sweep keeps you in charge of your own money. There is also a savings calculator, so you can see what your spare change could add up to over a year.

The site now also shows the education side of Sweep. Sweep isn't only about saving. It's about understanding money, too. Inside the app, you'll find short videos and podcasts about money and bitcoin, picked from channels we curate and refreshed all the time, so there's always something new to watch or listen to.

There's also Insights, which shows where your money really goes. You can see your spending by category each month, spot the subscriptions you'd forgotten about, and see your own inflation rate, worked out from what you actually buy rather than the number on the news.

On 5 October the site added Portuguese and Spanish, with a language chooser in the top right corner. Native speakers are reviewing the wording, so it reads the way people really talk. The legal pages stay in English for now.

Most of all, the site is the front door for early access. If you want to be among the first to use Sweep, you can join the list from any page.

On 2 October 2025, an Instagram video sparked an idea: what if the spare change from everyday spending went into bitcoin, automatically, without you ever having to decide to buy it?

Sweep started as a way for a solo father to teach his two daughters what happens to money that sits still. One year on, that idea is a working app on iPhone and Android.

Along the way, Sweep gained a patent-pending way of saving around your pay cycle. On payday, when you have the most to spare, it saves at the level you choose. As your balance runs down, it eases back, until it is saving just the basic round-up by the day before your next pay. And it gained Sweepy, the friendly broom who guides you through it all.

The bitcoin lands in a wallet on your phone that only you control. Sweep never holds it for you.

It has been a year of late nights, built on the Central Coast of New South Wales, one evening at a time. The next year is about getting Sweep into people's hands.

Sweep is no longer iPhone-only. The Android version is built, and it does everything the iPhone app does: rounding up purchases, saving the spare change as bitcoin, topping up, sending and receiving, and withdrawing.

It's the same Sweep underneath. Both apps share one set of rules for saving, so a round-up on Android works exactly the same way as on an iPhone, and your bitcoin lands in a wallet on your phone that only you control.

Android testers are now using it alongside the iPhone testers, putting it through the same paces and reporting back. The first build had a few rough edges, and they were fixed within days.

Bringing Android in matters. Most of the world's phones run Android, and Sweep is meant for everyone who spends, not just people with an iPhone.

Want to be one of the first to try it? Join the waitlist. If you live in the United States and would like to be a beta tester on iPhone or Android, sign up through the same form and we'll be in touch.

A small group of testers is now using Sweep on iPhone and Android.

They go through the whole app the way a real customer would. They sign up, confirm who they are, connect a test bank account, and create their own wallet, writing down the twelve words that let them get it back. Then they spend, and watch the round-ups land as sats.

They also try everything else: topping up, sending and receiving, and withdrawing. And they tell us plainly what works, what doesn't, and what is confusing. One tester has gone as far as writing up a list of rules for how withdrawals should behave.

New builds go out to them as often as several times a week, and each one fixes what they found. Every bug found now is one that a customer will never see.