# 🎉 3 new features to make Emma even better **URL:** \ **Category:** Emma News & Updates\ **Created:** [October 23, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673 "2025-10-23T17:21:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:21pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/1 "2025-10-23T17:21:21Z")
Hey everyone 👋 We’ve just rolled out **three updates** to give you more control over how Emma tracks your money: 💸 **Transfer category** All your internal transfers are now automatically detected and grouped under a brand-new **Transfer** category — no more mixing them with excluded transactions. 📊 **Category exclusion** You can now exclude entire categories from **Analytics** and **Budgets**. Perfect if you want to track **Investments** or **Savings** without including them in your spending totals. 🎨 **Custom category picker** Reorganise or hide categories you don’t use when categorising transactions. Love “Groceries” but never use “Gifts”? Keep your picker clean and personal. These changes are all about making Emma more flexible and tailored to you. Give them a try and let us know what you think below! 💛 ---
**Author:** ![mrchrisbrogan](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/mrchrisbrogan/32/2589_2.png) [@mrchrisbrogan](https://community.emma-app.com/u/mrchrisbrogan)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/2 "2025-10-23T17:58:53Z")
Just spotted the excluded category change now before coming here. So happy with this change ! ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/3 "2025-10-23T18:21:43Z")
> [@mrchrisbrogan](#): > > So happy with this change ! Let’s gooo! ---
**Author:** ![Vladanm999](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/vladanm999/32/2089_2.png) [@Vladanm999](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Vladanm999)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 7:20pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/4 "2025-10-23T19:20:21Z")
I have an issue with the transfer category before transfers were marked as the exclude category so they would be hidden for me in my transaction list now they are all marked as transfer category and have reappeared in my transaction list id prefer not to try and move all my transfers from transfer category to the excluded category. It would be good if the show excluded transactions toggle applied to the transfers and excluded categories ![IMG_3548](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/emma_app/original/2X/1/1b18945b94a7ad612d59306991e94492d7ef5991.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![lucianf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@lucianf](https://community.emma-app.com/u/lucianf)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/5 "2025-10-23T20:25:55Z")
> [@edoardomoreni](#): > > **Transfer category** > All your internal transfers are now automatically detected and grouped under a brand-new **Transfer** category — no more mixing them with excluded transactions. Sorry to sound dumb but what problem does this solve? I remember this being discussed a while back but can’t find it anymore. What’s wrong with using excluded for internal transfers - and with a separate transfer category what use case would be left for excluded? ---
**Author:** ![ian6797](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@ian6797](https://community.emma-app.com/u/ian6797)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/6 "2025-10-23T21:24:04Z")
This all sounds really good but please please please can we have the ability to turn off automatic tagging? I know every user’s workflow is different but I find it such a pain having to find and delete tags that have been automatically added. The tags I use (“gift”, for example) can’t be correctly added by an algorithm. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Starbuck89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Starbuck89](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Starbuck89)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/7 "2025-10-24T08:29:51Z")
Are these features still rolling out? I don’t see them on iOS. Since there are no docs, it would be great if you could include short GIFs showing each feature and where to access it in this annocuments. ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 11:56am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/8 "2025-10-24T11:56:57Z")
> [@Vladanm999](#): > > I have an issue with the transfer category before transfers were marked as the exclude category so they would be hidden for me in my transaction list now they are all marked as transfer category and have reappeared in my transaction list id prefer not to try and move all my transfers from transfer category to the excluded category. It would be good if the show excluded transactions toggle applied to the transfers and excluded categories Yes, this is going to be fixed in the next app update - sorry! ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/9 "2025-10-24T11:59:05Z")
> [@lucianf](#): > > Sorry to sound dumb but what problem does this solve? I remember this being discussed a while back but can’t find it anymore. What’s wrong with using excluded for internal transfers - and with a separate transfer category what use case would be left for excluded? Excluded is still used for credit card repayments, refunds, failed payments and any other thing you want to move there. Transfers is just for transfers - we wanted to create a bit of separation and clarity for new customers who might not understand the product well. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 11:59am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/10 "2025-10-24T11:59:19Z")
> [@Starbuck89](#): > > Are these features still rolling out? I don’t see them on iOS. They should be on the latest app update! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Starbuck89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e19adc/32.png) [@Starbuck89](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Starbuck89)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 4:06pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/11 "2025-10-24T16:06:12Z")
Latest version in the App Store is 5.8.5 and I don’t see these features. Is the new version still in review? ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2025, 5:28pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/12 "2025-10-24T17:28:47Z")
Hi @Starbuck89, can you reach out to live chat? These features are available in the latest version. ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 8:19am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/13 "2025-10-25T08:19:28Z")
> [@edoardomoreni](#): > > Yes, this is going to be fixed in the next app update - sorry! @Vladanm999 - we don’t need an app update - the engineer has already worked on this and a fix was released last night! 🚀 ---
**Author:** ![Vladanm999](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/vladanm999/32/2089_2.png) [@Vladanm999](https://community.emma-app.com/u/Vladanm999)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 3:21pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/14 "2025-10-25T15:21:56Z")
Brilliant will test it out ---
**Author:** ![ggavena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@ggavena](https://community.emma-app.com/u/ggavena)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 2:03pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/15 "2025-10-27T14:03:19Z")
This **Category exclusion** feature is something I want for a long time, so I’m really excited to try it out! I was not able to see how to use it though… I tried web and iOS (latest version from app store) and I couldn’t find a way to mark categories as excluded. ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 9:28am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/16 "2025-10-28T09:28:44Z")
These features are now fully out to everyone - if you don’t see them, please reach out to live chat, we can help you troubleshoot. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![ggavena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@ggavena](https://community.emma-app.com/u/ggavena)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 9:57am UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/17 "2025-10-29T09:57:58Z")
It showed up after an update! BTW, I **REALLY** like this feature! It’s super useful and something I’ve needed for a long time, so thank you for working on this! There were multiple non-recurring spending categories that I wanted to be able to track, but didn’t want it to affect my overall budget. If I moved it to Excluded, it would definitely be lost, so I categorized it and this led to me not really using the Budget features… With this, I’ve updated my budget, enabled rolling budgets and am now happy that I’ll be able to track it without a lot of effort! Quick question: are there plans to allow us to exclude specific **sub-categories**? It’s not an important thing, bc I easily found a way around it, but curious because I think I would do that if it was available. ---
**Author:** ![edoardomoreni](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/edoardomoreni/32/9_2.png) [@edoardomoreni](https://community.emma-app.com/u/edoardomoreni)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2025, 12:52pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/3-new-features-to-make-emma-even-better/7673/18 "2025-10-29T12:52:59Z")
> [@ggavena](#): > > Quick question: are there plans to allow us to exclude specific **sub-categories**? It’s not an important thing, bc I easily found a way around it, but curious because I think I would do that if it was available. I think the sky is the limit and we can take a look with @Yukiko