Coin by Weight & Cash Counter App in One — Fast & Accurate
Hello! I'm the developer behind CoinPouch, and I want to share why I built one iOS app that handles both coins (counted by weight) and cash (counted by denomination) in the same workflow. If you've ever stood at a register or kitchen table trying to tally a mountain of mixed change and a stack of bills, you already know the problem — and you'll know exactly why this combination matters.
The problem: coins and cash live in two worlds
Counting coins by hand is slow and error-prone. Counting bills is fast — but most coin counters can't help with bills, and most "cash drawer" tools can't count coins by weight. So end-of-day totals end up living across a calculator, a notebook, and a stressed-out brain.
CoinPouch fixes that by giving you a single screen where coins (by weight, using official mint weights) and cash (by denomination, one tap per bundle) add up to one grand total.
How the coin side works
Sort your coins by denomination, drop a pile on any digital scale (grams), and type the weight into CoinPouch. The app uses the official mint weight for that denomination to compute the exact count and value. The full step-by-step is in our How it works guide.
Three things make this fast in practice:
- Built-in weights for 11 currencies — USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, JPY, KRW, CAD, AUD, NOK, DKK, SEK.
- Works offline. No network, no analytics, no waiting.
- PDF export. One tap to share your daily count with a bookkeeper or spreadsheet.
How the cash side works
For banknotes, weight isn't useful (most modern notes are within a fraction of a gram of each other). Instead, CoinPouch lets you tap in the count of each denomination — 5s, 10s, 20s, 50s, 100s — and adds it to the same running total. Coins and cash, one grand total. That's the entire point: a real-world till, charity bucket, or change jar contains both, and so should your counter.
This is the same dual-mode workflow described in our FAQ, and it's the most common request we got from early users running cafés, market stalls, and fundraising drives.
Why combining the two saves real time
The slow part of any end-of-day count isn't the math — it's transcription. Every time you move data between tools (scale → calculator → ledger), you lose a few seconds and introduce a possible typo. By collapsing coins and cash into one app, CoinPouch eliminates the worst transcription step in the workflow.
A few common situations where this is a noticeable difference:
- A café closing its till in under a minute instead of 10–15.
- A charity drive volunteer tallying buckets of donations on-site rather than back at the office.
- A small shop owner reconciling the safe weekly without a coin sorter.
What's next
We're always improving CoinPouch. If you have a feature idea — a currency we don't support, a workflow we should streamline, or a coin-counting edge case — please get in touch. Some of our best features came from a single email from a user.
Ready to try it?
CoinPouch is free on the App Store. If you want a deeper how-to, read How to Count US Coins Fast next, or jump to Coin Counting for Small Businesses if you run a café, shop or charity.
