# Querying spending in categories over time frames like months and years

**URL:** <https://community.emma-app.com/t/querying-spending-in-categories-over-time-frames-like-months-and-years/4545>\
**Category:** Feedback & Ideas\
**Created:** [August 13, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/querying-spending-in-categories-over-time-frames-like-months-and-years/4545 "2021-08-13T16:45:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![neilaj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eada6e/32.png) [@neilaj](https://community.emma-app.com/u/neilaj)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/querying-spending-in-categories-over-time-frames-like-months-and-years/4545/1 "2021-08-13T16:45:31Z")

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I would like to see my spending in a particular category over months or years.

For eg: how much did I spend on Groceries in the past 6 months?

I cant see a way to do this in the app currently but it would be great to have.

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**Author:** ![rebekah](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.emma-app.com/rebekah/32/1091_2.png) [@rebekah](https://community.emma-app.com/u/rebekah)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 12:28pm UTC](https://community.emma-app.com/t/querying-spending-in-categories-over-time-frames-like-months-and-years/4545/2 "2021-08-16T12:28:10Z")

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Hey @neilaj 👋

Welcome to the Emma Community 🙌

If you click on the analytics tab and then click on a category you can see how much you spent each month.

It doesn’t currently add the total up over a time period, but we are [improving our search feature](https://community.emma-app.com/t/improved-search/4293) so you will eventually be able to do this!