Indian expats in the Gulf

Your salary is in dirhams. Your life isn't.

A UAE salary account, an NRE or NRO account back home, a plot your father is minding, gold from your wedding. Most of that never makes it into any app, so the honest answer to 'what am I actually worth' stays a guess. NetWorth+ holds all of it as one figure, in the currencies it actually exists in.

AED and INR, one net worthProperty and gold counted tooNo bank login, either country

What actually counts

Two countries, one you

  • UAE salary accountDirhams, updated as you spend
  • NRE or NRO savingsRupees, held as their own account
  • Property back homeValued at your own honest estimate
  • Gold and jewelleryAn asset like any other, not forgotten

In short

NetWorth+ is a free Android app that holds your UAE finances and your India finances as one figure instead of two separate guesses. Salary and spending in dirhams, savings in an NRE or NRO account, property and gold back home, and whatever you send to family each month all count toward the same net worth, each in the currency it actually exists in and converted at the rate on the day. Sending money home is recorded as a transfer, not spending, so a generous remittance month does not make your own progress look like a crisis. Nothing here requires a bank login on either side, in either country.

Currencies

AED and INR together

Remittances

Recorded as transfers, not spending

Assets counted

Property, gold, accounts, investments

Bank login

Never required, either country

The problem

Two ledgers that never actually meet

One phone, two financial lives, and no single place either of them adds up.

The UAE side is usually the tracked half: a salary account, a card, maybe a budgeting app that only knows dirhams. The India side is the untracked half: an NRE or NRO balance you check twice a year, an FD your parents manage on your behalf, a plot in your hometown nobody has valued since it was bought, gold sitting in a locker from your own wedding or your mother's. None of it is hidden exactly, it is just never added up in one place.

So the honest number, what are you actually worth right now, across everything, stays a guess most people round down out of caution and round up out of hope, and never actually calculate.

What you want to be able to see

  • A real total across both countries, not two separate mental spreadsheets
  • Whether the money you send home is building wealth or quietly draining UAE savings
  • What property and gold actually add to your position, priced honestly rather than ignored
  • All of it without asking your father for a balance update every time you want to check

How it handles it

Built for money that lives in two countries

AED and INR, one figure

Every account is held in its own currency and converted at the rate on the day it moved, not restated every time the exchange rate changes.

Remittances are transfers

Sending money home moves it between your own accounts. It is not spending, so your net worth does not fall every time you support your family.

Property and gold, as assets

Value them yourself and update whenever you have a reason to. They count toward your total the same as a bank balance does.

SMS read on your phone

UAE bank alerts can be read on the device with permission, and the text never leaves it. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is a bank login.

In practice

Getting the two-country picture straight

1

Add every account, both sides

UAE salary and savings, NRE or NRO accounts, and cash a relative might be holding for you if that applies. Each stays in its real currency.

2

Add property and gold honestly

A rough, honest estimate beats a precise number you will never bother entering. Update it once or twice a year, not every week.

3

Record transfers with the real rate

When money moves to India, log what left and what arrived. The rate that day is captured and never quietly rewritten later.

4

Turn on SMS capture for the UAE account

Card swipes and salary credits start filling themselves in for approval, which is the part most people give up on doing manually within a month.

Reference

What most people leave out of their net worth

What gets forgottenWhy it mattersWhere it goes in NetWorth+
An FD your parents manage on your behalfIt is still your money, wherever the passbook sitsAn asset, updated when you know the balance
Gold from a wedding, yours or your mother'sA real store of value in most Indian householdsA physical asset, valued at your own estimate
A plot or flat back homeOften the single largest asset an NRI holdsA property asset, revalued whenever there is a reason to
EPF or NPS from a job held before movingStill yours, and still growingAn asset or account, updated periodically
Chit funds or informal family lendingCommon, and invisible to any bank-linked app by designA manual entry, which is exactly what this app is built for

This is a way to organise your own record, not tax, FEMA or investment advice. What counts as your asset legally is a question for a professional; what you choose to track here is entirely up to you.

What this does not do

NetWorth+ does not calculate NRI tax residency, does not handle FEMA or repatriation rules, and does not connect to any Indian or UAE bank account. It is a private ledger you control, not a tax adviser or a remittance provider, and nothing you enter is reported anywhere.

Where this applies

Across the Gulf, and beyond it

The specifics change by emirate and by state back home, DEWA in Dubai, ADDC in Abu Dhabi, an NRE account with one bank or another, a family property in Kerala, Punjab or anywhere else, but the arithmetic is the same everywhere: two currencies, converted honestly, added into one number.

NetWorth+ also covers India, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, the United Kingdom and the United States. Currency handling is not limited to the list above: three-decimal dinars and zero-decimal currencies are treated correctly rather than being forced into two decimal places.

Questions

Good to know

I already send money through an exchange house app. Why track it again here?
That app moves the money and shows you the rate at the moment you sent it. This one holds what happens on both ends afterward: your UAE balance, the rupees that landed, and how the whole picture adds up over time. They do different jobs.
Can it calculate my NRI tax status or FEMA compliance?
No. NetWorth+ is a tracking tool, not a tax or legal adviser, and it does not give financial advice. Anything to do with residency status or repatriation rules needs a professional who knows your specific situation.
Does it connect to my Indian bank account or my UAE one?
No, never, on either side. There is no bank login and no aggregator connection. Optional SMS reading works only for UAE bank alert formats it can recognise, processed on the device, and it can be switched off at any time.
How do I value gold or property? Is there a live price feed?
There is no live valuation feed for property or gold. You enter your own honest estimate and update it whenever you have a reason to, which is a deliberate choice: a rough number you actually maintain is more useful than a precise one you never update.
Can my family back home see the numbers too?
You can share a read-only view of specific accounts with someone, which suits a jointly held property or a fund the family tracks together. They see only what you choose to share, and you can withdraw access at any time.
My only two accounts are a UAE salary account and one NRE account. Is this overkill?
No. It works with as few as two accounts and grows with your situation, whether that means adding property, gold, a second job's income or a family member's shared view later.

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Where else this fits

One net worth number, wherever your money actually is

Dirhams, rupees, property and gold, counted honestly and added up properly.

Android. No bank login. No ads. Message reading is optional and off until you switch it on.