Expense Buddy

Expense Buddy helps you track spending faster without giving up privacy or control.

You can scan recent transaction SMS messages, turn them into draft expenses, and review everything before saving. You can also enable optional background alerts on Android so newly received transaction SMS matches show up as local notifications that reopen the same review flow. The app extracts likely expense details on-device, suggests categories locally, and lets you accept, edit, reject, or dismiss each item. Nothing is imported automatically.

Why people use Expense Buddy:

- Review-first SMS import for recent Android transaction messages
- Optional background alerts for new matched Android transaction SMS messages
- Private local storage by default
- Charts and filters for spending insights
- Custom categories, payment methods, and saved instruments
- Optional GitHub sync for backup across your own devices
- No ads, no analytics, no forced cloud account

What makes it different:

- Recent-message scanning happens only when you choose
- Background SMS alerts are optional and stay review-first
- Play-installed builds use native Google Play in-app updates
- SMS permissions are requested from explicit Settings actions, not at first launch
- Raw SMS content stays on your device
- Only confirmed expenses are added to your history
- Duplicate protection helps keep imports manageable

Smarter suggestions, still under your control:

- Expense extraction stays deterministic and on-device
- Category suggestions can use a bundled on-device LiteRT model
- Low-confidence predictions fall back to local rule-based suggestions
- Review remains the final gate before anything is saved

Track expenses your way:

- Quick add, edit, and delete flows
- Optional math expression entry for faster manual input
- Notes, dates, and searchable history
- Day-wise records for clean organization
- Multi-currency analytics support

See where your money goes:

- Daily spending charts
- Category and payment-method breakdowns
- Filters for time range, amount, category, method, and instrument

Optional GitHub sync:

- Sync confirmed expense records to a private repository you own
- Choose your repository and branch
- Works offline first and syncs when you decide
- Raw SMS data and review metadata are not uploaded to GitHub

Private by design:

- No backend required to use the app
- No analytics or advertising SDKs
- Expense data stays on-device unless you enable sync
- Only expenses you confirm become part of your synced records

Expense Buddy is free and open source. You can report issues from the app's Settings screen or through the GitHub repository.

Privacy Policy: https://github.com/sudokoi/expense-buddy/blob/main/PRIVACY.md