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What can I safely spend?
Budget, recorded spending and remaining days become a direct monthly signal.
Aura FinanceActive App
GitHub ↗Private, Android-first personal finance
Understand your money.
Keep your history yours.
Aura Finance helps answer three everyday questions: what can I safely spend, where is my money going, and what needs attention? Your financial workspace stays local first, with optional encrypted continuity.
Local-first ledgerExplainable numbersHuman-reviewed automation
One ledger. Two useful views of your month.
Actual View: Tracks raw income and expenditure, including one-off purchases and edge cases.
Net View: Filters out one-time anomalies to reveal your true baseline budget.
Why Aura exists
A personal budget should help you decide.
Aura starts from a simple constraint: understanding your finances should not require a cloud backend to become the owner of your complete financial history.
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Where is my money going?
Local reports show category totals, trends, comparisons and exceptional spending.
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What still needs my decision?
Alerts, imports and detected Android payments stay visible until the user chooses what belongs in the ledger.
The goal is not more automation. It is more clarity without giving up ownership or control.
The idea
One local financial workspace.
Clear signals, explicit control.
Aura keeps the canonical ledger on the device, derives its insights through deterministic finance rules, and treats imports or detected payments as proposals until you confirm them.
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RecordIncome, expenses, budgets, recurring commitments and goals.2
UnderstandSafe-to-spend, pace, trends, category views and comparisons.3
ReviewImports and Android payment candidates never silently enter the ledger.4
Keep controlPortable data and optional encrypted backup preserve ownership.What changes
Useful finance software with fewer hidden trade-offs.
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Local-first ownership
Transactions, budgets, reports, settings and attachments live on the device first.
The local workspace is the source of truth.02
Explainable numbers
Safe-to-spend, pace, totals and comparisons come from deterministic rules that can be traced back to recorded data.
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Human-reviewed automation
Imports and Android payment detection reduce manual work without creating irreversible ledger changes.
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Optional encrypted continuity
Cloud backup is disabled by default and encrypted on the client before a payload reaches Firestore.
Product proof
From totals to decisions.
The current mobile product turns the feature list into concrete financial questions.
ACTUAL vs NET
Did one large purchase really change my month?
Actual keeps the complete cash record visible. Net separates marked exceptional spending so the repeatable pattern stays readable.
Actual · complete month
Net · repeatable pattern
BUDGET → HISTORY
Where should I act before the month gets away from me?
Budget alerts expose the immediate exception. Category history then shows whether it is a recurring baseline or a temporary spike.
Budget · what needs attention
History · is it a pattern?
COMPARE → REVIEW
What changed, and what still needs my decision?
Period comparison explains the difference. Detected Android payments remain candidates until edited, confirmed or ignored.
Explain · what changed
Review · before recording
Android-only capability
Faster capture. No silent bookkeeping.
On supported Android flows, Aura can recognize a likely payment locally and prepare a structured candidate. The transaction is created only after explicit review.
Detect locallySelected supported notifications are filtered and parsed on-device.
Store minimallyOnly encrypted structured candidates enter the private native queue.
Confirm firstEdit, confirm or ignore before anything becomes a canonical transaction.
Under the hood
Local-first is an architecture boundary.
The shared React product and deterministic financial domain stay separate from Android-only capabilities, while cloud continuity remains optional and encrypted client-side.
React Native / Expo
Cross-platform core product, offline SQLite database, financial state engine and user experience.
Native Android Service
Background notification parsing, payment candidate detection and secure local IPC queue.
Client-Side Encryption
AES-256 encrypted payload serialization before optional Firebase cloud synchronization.
Local-first personal finance
Understand your money. Keep your data yours.
Aura Finance turns financial tracking into an explicit local workflow: record → understand → review → decide.