SmartWallet is a terminal-based personal finance tracker written in Python.
It provides an offline-first text user interface for managing income and expenses using a hierarchical budget structure. Categories can be nested to create a detailed view of household spending, with each transaction stored locally in a JSON file. The application uses Textual for its terminal interface and is designed for keyboard-driven personal finance management.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Organizes budgets with a tree-structured category system.
- Supports nested categories for detailed income and expense tracking.
- Stores data locally in ~/.smartwallet/budget.json.
- Uses signed transactions to distinguish income from expenses.
- Calculates balances recursively across the budget tree.
- Provides modal dialogs for adding, editing, deleting, and navigating entries.
- Includes schema versioning for safer future data migrations.
Website: pypi.org/project/smartwallet
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Developer: alwood
License: MIT License
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