Budget Tracker TUI is a terminal user interface application for tracking personal budgets.
Built with Rust and Ratatui, it lets users manage income and expenses directly from the terminal, with a clean keyboard-driven interface for adding transactions, editing entries, reviewing summaries, and monitoring spending against budget targets. It stores transactions in a configurable CSV file, uses SQLite for the category catalog, and saves application preferences in a local configuration file.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Adds, views, edits, and deletes income and expense transactions.
- Supports recurring transactions with selectable frequencies.
- Filters transactions by date, description, category, type, and amount.
- Uses hierarchical categories and subcategories managed inside the application.
- Provides fuzzy search for quicker category and subcategory selection.
- Displays monthly summaries, category summaries, interactive charts, and tables.
- Tracks monthly target budgets and per-category expense budgets.
- Offers flexible CSV import and export with support for common date formats.
- Uses decimal arithmetic for accurate financial calculations.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/Feromond/budget_tracker_tui
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Developer: Jacob Mish
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
Budget Tracker TUI is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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