Ocular is a self-hosted budgeting application designed to help users track budgets, expenses, and financial activity across multiple years.
It offers a polished web interface with dashboard analytics, charts, multi-currency support, and flexible financial-year settings. The app can be deployed with Docker, installed as a Progressive Web App, and used on mobile devices.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Tracks budgets and expenses across multiple years.
- Provides dashboard statistics, charts, and a Sankey diagram.
- Supports common currencies and multiple languages.
- Offers light and dark themes, privacy mode, and keyboard navigation.
- Imports data from Google Sheets annual planner and exports data as JSON.
Website: github.com/simonwep/ocular
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Developer: Simon Reinisch
License: MIT License
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