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Personal Finance Tracker

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bulla

Personal finance manager for the masses: Private, Locally Stored, Open Source, Minimal Information Sharing, Clean (modern UI) & Simple (double entry optional)

  • Single place to track all transactions (upload different types of transactions)
  • Dashboard to view monthly expenses, to view notes from personal analysis
  • Track action items and show scorecard of financial improvements
  • Should provide complete privacy (atleast in long term), all data store locally
    • Provide anonymized data for autolabeller
  • Stretch Goal: Savings/Asset management for small families
  • Stretch Goal: Mobile AI buddy help build finance habits

v1 Goal: 1 year goal

  • Ability to ingest many bank statements, align them w.r.t time
  • Autolabeler to label transactions (for eg: eating out etc)
  • Dashboard: Show user status

v0.0.1: Hackathon Goals

  • Ingests csv of bank statements and autolabels transactions into set categories (partial suppport for Indian and US banks now)
  • Show user screen with summary for a given time period (month or year)
  • Anonymiser to remove PII from data and to mux multiple transactions for the training module

Other note worthy apps and our differentiations

  • Mint: Not open source, not private
  • Firefly-iii: UI is not clean, complex for normal users
  • GnuCash: Double Entry accounting
  • BeanCount: No UI
  • Ledger: No UI

Name inspiration from Bulla Seals