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Everything UK personal finance journalists need to write about WealthR — copy-paste descriptions, story angles, brand assets, ready-to-use founder quotes and direct contact. Built for deadline pressure.

At a glance

Name
WealthR
Founder
Liam Kane (solo)
HQ
Edinburgh, UK
Launched
May 2026
Category
UK personal finance app
Pricing
Free · Pro £5.99/mo or £39.99/yr
Free blog
Data handling
No Open Banking, no ads

App descriptions — copy & paste

Three lengths, plus a separate description of the adviser platform (which is not yet released). Pick what fits your word count. All factually accurate and approved by the founder for direct quotation.

Tweet length
~50 words
WealthR is a UK-only personal finance app built in Edinburgh by solo founder Liam Kane. Launched May 2026. Tracks every UK asset class — ISAs, SIPPs, DB pensions, property, physical assets, crypto — and projects forward with proper UK tax modelling. Powerful free tier; Pro £5.99/mo or £39.99/yr.
Standard length
~100 words
WealthR is a UK personal finance and wealth-planning app built in Edinburgh by solo founder Liam Kane, launched in May 2026. It tracks every UK asset class — Stocks & Shares ISA, Cash ISA, LISA, SIPP, workplace pension, DB pension, State Pension, Premium Bonds, property equity, physical assets, crypto — and projects forward with UK-tax-aware retirement, FIRE and life-event modelling. Manual entry by design — no Open Banking, no ads. Free tier includes net worth tracking, full UK tax calculator, FIRE projection, the chance your money lasts from a 5,000-path Monte Carlo simulation, and 50+ blog posts. Pro (£5.99/month or £39.99/year) unlocks unlimited properties and physical assets, life-event Scenarios, adviser share links for IFAs, the Tax Year Optimiser and PDF reports. Thirty-two free standalone calculators live at wealthr.co.uk/tools/ with no signup.
Feature length
~250 words
WealthR is a UK personal finance and wealth-planning app built in Edinburgh by solo founder Liam Kane, launched in May 2026. It exists to fill a visualisation gap that no major UK fintech has closed: every UK platform shows what you have today, but none show what it means for your future self.

The app tracks every UK asset class — Stocks & Shares ISA, Cash ISA, LISA, JISA, SIPP, workplace DC, Defined Benefit pension, State Pension projection from NI qualifying years, GIA, Premium Bonds, property equity, BTL rental yield, physical assets (gold, silver, watches, art, classic cars), and live-priced crypto. It then projects forward with full UK-tax-aware modelling: three-scenario net worth forecast, Monte Carlo retirement simulator (5,000 paths), sequence-of-returns stress test, three-phase trajectory (Working → Coasting → Retired), FIRE date with Coast FIRE, and 11 retirement-income stream types with the correct UK tax treatment.

The free tier is unusually capable — net worth tracking, full 2026/27 UK income tax calculator (PAYE, NI, Student Loans, Scottish bands, HICBC), the chance your money lasts from a Monte Carlo simulation, FIRE calculator, ISA and SIPP tracker, three-scenario net worth projection, dividend planner, and live crypto pricing. Pro (£5.99/month or £39.99/year, 7-day free trial) unlocks unlimited properties, unlimited physical assets, the rest of the life-event Scenarios (Cost of Raising a Child, Long-term Care, UK Budget Impact, a single-income period, the car decision and an inheritance; the Income Shock, Salary Sacrifice, Pay Rise and Maternity pay scenarios are free), the Tax Year Optimiser (where your figures sit against the High Income Child Benefit Charge, Marriage Allowance and your ISA headroom), adviser share links giving an IFA read-only access to a client's dashboard, the Actual Return forecast, and PDF reports. One subscription covers a household.

Every month is kept in a monthly snapshot: one page with every figure, net worth moving as you type, and any two months comparable side by side.

Thirty-two free standalone calculators live at wealthr.co.uk/tools/ with no signup. Methodology blog posts at wealthr.co.uk/blog show the maths behind every figure. A free monthly UK newsletter at wealthr.co.uk/community sends a heads-up when a new free tool ships and a short note when UK money rules change. A separate monthly check-in email reminds you to update your figures, and can be switched off in Settings on its own. Manual entry by design — no Open Banking, no bank linking, no ads, no data selling.
For advisers & firms
~110 words
WealthR Partners (launching 2027) gives every client of a UK advice firm the WealthR app under the firm's own brand, with the adviser inside it, plus a cockpit dashboard across the firm's client book. Pricing is public and per firm, not per seat: Starter £89 a month (up to 25 clients), Practice £249 (up to 100) and Firm £549 (up to 400). Monthly, no setup fee, and every feature in every tier. A founding waitlist is open. WealthR supplies the software; the adviser supplies the regulated advice. Details at wealthr.co.uk/partners.

Story angles

If you're looking for a hook, here are nine that match what your readers actually search for. Pick the one closest to your beat — Liam can supply a quote, a calculator demo, or both.

Coast FIRE
The Stop-Saving Milestone most UK savers miss
Most UK Coast FIRE writing is American. WealthR's three-phase trajectory chart models Working → Coasting → Retired on UK rules: the minimum pension age (55, rising to 57 in April 2028) and the State Pension age. Source post.
Long-term care
The £86k care cap was cancelled — and the rules differ in each nation
The £86k cap was cancelled in 2024 and isn't in force. WealthR's free calculator runs the rules for all four UK nations: England, Scotland (free personal care for every adult assessed as needing it), Wales (£50k care-home limit) and Northern Ireland, and counts pension income in the means test. Free tool.
Income shock
Why a 12-month UK job loss is a 30-year problem
For anyone decades from retirement, the pay lost is the smaller part. At a 5% real return over 30 years, the growth that money would have earned is more than three times the money itself. Most personal finance writing counts only the pay lost. Methodology post.
Cost of raising a child
One average can't tell you what your child will cost
CPAG's widely quoted £166k is an average that includes housing. Childcare and schooling choices alone give a range of about £92,000 to £437,000 per child to 18 in WealthR's calculator, with housing left out. Free calculator + worked scenarios. Free tool.
Tax year angle
The 60% trap UK higher earners don't know about
£100,000–£125,140 of income carries a 60% effective marginal tax rate via personal allowance taper. WealthR's Tax Year Optimiser models exactly the pension top-up to escape it. Seasonal hook around tax year end (5 April) or Autumn Budget.
IHT on pensions 2027
The hidden 64-67% rate coming for inherited pensions
From April 2027, unspent UK pensions enter the IHT estate. Combined with beneficiary income tax on drawdown above age 75, effective rates can hit 64-67%. Free calculator.
Edinburgh / Scotland
Solo Edinburgh founder builds free UK retirement tool
Liam Kane built the app after five years of maintaining a personal spreadsheet to solve the gap he kept hitting: every UK platform shows what you have today; none show what it means for your future self. Local story angle for Scottish outlets.
Breakaway advisers
Adviser software with public prices — from £89 a month, per firm
The adviser tech stack (Voyant, CashCalc, intelliflo, moneyinfo) is built for big firms on annual contracts and per-firm pricing. WealthR Partners publishes its prices, charges per firm rather than per seat, and runs month to month with no setup project — from £89 a month for up to 25 clients. Angle for trade and fintech outlets. Partners page.
Privacy-first fintech
No Open Banking, no data selling, manual entry by design
Counter-trend story. Most UK money apps push toward Open Banking aggregation. WealthR is deliberately manual entry — no bank linking, no API connections, no data brokers. The trade-off is honest and the audience is real.

Ready-to-use founder quotes

Liam Kane, founder of WealthR. Pre-approved for direct quotation — verify by email before publication if your house style requires it.

Every UK platform shows you what you have today. None of them show you what it means for your future self. WealthR exists to close that gap.
— On why he built WealthR
Care is the conversation most families put off until they can't. The rules change depending on which side of a border your mum lives on, the cap that was promised never arrived, and whether the house counts depends on who's still living in it. I wanted people to have an honest number before they're making that decision in a hurry.
— On the long-term care calculator methodology
Coast FIRE is the most overlooked retirement concept in UK personal finance. For someone in their late twenties, the difference between "save until 67" and "save until 40" is twenty-seven years of optionality. The pot ends up in the same place either way.
— On Coast FIRE as a UK planning frame
I built this manual-entry by design. Open Banking is convenient but it solves the wrong problem — most people don't have a tracking problem, they have a forecasting problem. Connecting to your bank doesn't help you decide if you can afford to retire.
— On the privacy-first, manual-entry approach
The big IFA cashflow tools — Voyant, CashCalc, Truth — cost over £100 a month and are licensed only to advisers. There's no consumer version. WealthR's Scenarios feature is the closest thing for £5.99/month.
— On positioning vs IFA cashflow planning software
Most adviser software is sold to the firm, on a contract, with a setup project. I wanted a small or breakaway adviser to be able to put their own brand on a client portal by the afternoon, at a price anyone can read on the website. I build the software; the adviser still owns the advice.
— On WealthR Partners, launching 2027

Founder bio

Liam Kane is the solo founder of WealthR, based in Edinburgh. A UK investor with over a decade of personal investing experience across Stocks & Shares ISAs, property, and inherited physical assets — including silver coins passed down from his father — Liam built WealthR after five years of maintaining a personal spreadsheet that did what no UK platform did: project a whole financial picture forward against real UK tax with proper life-event scenarios.

WealthR launched in May 2026 and ships under WealthR Ltd (registered in Scotland, SC900929). Support emails go direct to the founder. The roadmap is public at wealthr.co.uk/roadmap.

Brand assets

Assets are supplied on request so you always get the current build rather than a screenshot of an old one. Tell us what you need and the format, and Liam will send it over — usually within 24 hours.

Email press@wealthr.co.uk or use the form at the foot of this page.

Key facts for fact-checkers

Press mentions

This section is updated as coverage lands. If you're a journalist who has published a piece referencing WealthR, please email press@wealthr.co.uk with the link and we'll add it here.

Press contact

For interviews, quotes, demo access, or anything not covered above — fill out the form below or email Liam directly. Replies usually within 24 hours, faster on weekdays.

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