Ocular

Ocular is an open-source budgeting application focused on clarity and simplicity. It provides a progressive web app interface to track budgets across multiple years, visualize cash flow, and manage user access while keeping data local to your deployment.

Key Features

• Progressive Web App (installable, mobile-optimized) with light and dark themes
• Dashboard with detailed statistics and a sankey diagram for cash-flow visualization
• Import data from a Google Sheets annual planner and export as a single JSON file
• Multi-year budgeting support and multi-currency localization
• Privacy mode for obscuring sensitive information in public settings
• User management and authentication for multi-user setups
• Keyboard navigation and fast, minimalist UI for power users
• Deployable via Docker Compose for self-hosted installations

Use Cases

• Personal finance: maintain and analyze household or personal budgets across years
• Small teams or family budgets: share and manage budgets with user accounts
• Financial visualization: explore income and expense flows with sankey diagrams for planning and reporting

Ocular is aimed at users who want a simple, local-first budgeting experience with modern UI features and exportable data. Its PWA approach makes it convenient for mobile use while Docker deployment enables self-hosted persistence and multi-user setups.