Money Mentor

Money Mentor is a personalized financial mobile app that encourages better spending habits and budget tracking. Our app has a lot of different features so that we can cater to different user types.

Video Demo

Login Update budget Cash splasher ostrich push notification

Team Members

Getting Started

Prerequisites

In order to run this application on your device, download Expo Client.

Register with Plaid's API to get a public key client secret and client ID.

Front End

npm install or yarn install

REACT_NATIVE_ENV=production npm run

Back End

Repo

npm install or yarn install

npm start

Logging In

To explore the features as an existing user, use the following credentials:

To sign up as a new user in sandbox mode when you've reached the Plaid authentication screen, choose a bank and use the following credentials:

  • User: user_good
  • Password: pass_good

Technologies Used

Features

  • Displays current account and transactions data via third party API, Plaid
  • Data visualization for remaining spendable, spending by category
  • Financial Personality Quiz to personalize budget tracking
  • Recommended Articles based on financial personality type
  • Streaks for progress and habit tracking
  • Set Daily, weekly, bi-weekly reminders to check-in to the app via push notifications
  • Update individual transaction category and toggle to include/exclude from budgeted spending

This app was a capstone project due for the Grace Hopper Program at Full Stack Academy.