Gold Silver Ledger stores every dollar amount internally in USD and converts to your chosen display currency on the fly. By default, that display currency is USD.
If your home currency is anything else — GBP, EUR, CAD, AUD, JPY, and so on — change it once from Settings, and every page in the app re-renders in your preferred currency from then on.
This article shows you where the setting lives, the full list of supported currencies, and what changing it does (and doesn't) actually do to your data.
Where to find it
The display currency selector lives on the Profile tab of your Settings page.
From the left nav, click Settings.
The page opens on the Profile tab by default. If you've navigated away, click it.
Look for the Display Currency card, top-right of the Profile tab.
Click the dropdown labeled Currency and pick the one you want.
Click Save changes at the bottom-right of the page.
That's the whole flow. Once saved, the change is instant. Head to your Dashboard or Holdings page and every figure is now in your chosen currency.
The 15 supported currencies
You can pick from any of the following:
USD: US Dollar (default)
EUR: Euro
GBP: British Pound
CAD: Canadian Dollar
AUD: Australian Dollar
CHF: Swiss Franc
JPY: Japanese Yen
NZD: New Zealand Dollar
HKD: Hong Kong Dollar
SGD: Singapore Dollar
MXN: Mexican Peso
ZAR: South African Rand
SEK: Swedish Krona
NOK: Norwegian Krone
DKK: Danish Krone
If your home currency isn't on this list, the most useful workaround is to leave the app in USD and convert manually for any official paperwork. The list will grow over time; the cap at 15 today reflects the markets where we see the most active users.
What changing the display currency actually does
The model the app uses is simple, and worth understanding once so the rest of it makes sense.
Everything is stored in USD: Every purchase price, every cost basis figure, every premium-above-spot number lives in the database in US dollars. This is true regardless of who entered the data or what currency they were looking at when they entered it.
The display currency is applied at render time: When you load the Dashboard, Holdings, Transactions, Analytics, or any other page, the app looks up the current USD-to-your-currency exchange rate and converts each value for display. Nothing is rewritten in the database.
Spot prices are also USD-native: The metals markets quote spot in USD per troy ounce globally, so the live spot the app reads is always in USD and is converted to your display currency the same way.
The card on the Settings page spells this out in a banner: "Changing your display currency does not affect stored transaction data or historical records — only how values are shown in the app." That's the rule, in one sentence.
A practical consequence: if you record a $2,400 purchase while your display currency is set to USD, then later switch to GBP, the underlying record is still $2,400.
The Holdings page might show that purchase as £1,920 today, and as a slightly different GBP figure tomorrow if the exchange rate has moved. The dollars haven't moved — the conversion has.
Saving the change
The Save changes button at the bottom-right of the Settings page stays greyed out until you actually change something. Once you pick a new currency from the dropdown, it activates. Click it, and the change is saved to your profile and applied to your session immediately.
If you change your mind before saving, navigate away from the Settings page and your selection is discarded — only saved changes take effect.
What about values you entered before you switched?
They re-render in the new currency, with no loss of information. Because the stored figures are always in USD, every historical purchase, sale, and cost basis figure is just re-converted on the next page load.
There's no migration step, no "lock in" date, no separate "before" and "after" view.
This is also why you can switch back and forth between currencies as often as you like — for example, to spot-check a figure in USD while normally working in EUR. Each switch is just a different conversion of the same underlying numbers.
Where to go next
Setting your weight unit: the matching display preference for weights, which works on the same storage-and-convert-at-display model.
How currency conversion works: the longer technical version of what this article summarizes.
The 15 supported display currencies: the same list as above, but maintained as the canonical reference in case it grows.
Recording your first transaction: if you haven't entered a purchase yet, this is the next step.
A tour of your dashboard: see your numbers in your chosen currency.