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Welcome to Pockaw

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📝 Overview

Say Goodbye to Spreadsheets-based expense and budget tracking! Pockaw is your intuitive, user-friendly app for seamless expense and budget tracking, tailored for both personal use and small businesses. Designed to be your reliable financial buddy, Pockaw offers powerful features to simplify cash flow management:

  • 💸 Expense Tracking: Easily log daily expenses and categorize them (e.g., groceries, entertainment), so you know exactly where your money goes.
  • 💰 Income Management: Track multiple income sources, from salaries to side hustles, in one convenient place.
  • 🎯 Budget Goals: Set and monitor monthly or weekly spending goals to stay within budget and work towards your financial objectives.
  • 📊 Expense Analytics: Gain insights through visual breakdowns of spending, trends over time, and custom filters for a personalized view.
  • ⏰ Reminders & Notifications: Get timely alerts for upcoming bill due dates and monthly goals, keeping you on track.
  • 🌍 Multi-Currency Support: Perfect for a global audience, Pockaw makes it easy to manage finances across different currencies.

🌟 What Will You Get

  • 100% Free & Open Source: Completely free, with open access to the source code—forever!
  • Cross-Platform: Seamless use across Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, Linux, and even the browser. Take your budget management anywhere!
  • No Registration Needed: Jump right in without the hassle of creating an account.
  • Ad-Free, Always: Say goodbye to annoying ads; Pockaw is focused solely on helping you manage your finances.
  • Offline-First: Your data is always accessible, even offline. Connect only when you want to sync across devices.
  • Security focused: For offline use, you are in charge of your own data.

🎉 Signature Feature

  • Advanced Goal Planning: Set up multiple checklist goals for any occasion, from a wedding or new home to wishlist shopping.

🎯 User Target

Designed For

  • Individuals (Ages 20-35)
    • 🎓Students who want to easily track their daily spending's and build financial awareness.
    • 💼Employees interested in managing their monthly income, expenses, and budgeting for future goals.
    • 👨‍👩‍👧Families needing a simple, effective way to monitor and optimize their household cash flow.
    • 💰Goal-Driven Savers looking to turn financial goals and wishlists into reality, keeping an eye on every penny along the way!
  • Micro to Small Businesses
    • 👥Size: Perfect for teams of 1-5 people, ideal for small operations needing basic cash flow insights.
    • 💵Income: Suited for businesses with a yearly income of approximately $3,800 - $4,000 USD (or €3,500 - €3,700 EUR), focusing on streamlined, essential budgeting tools.

Not Designed For

  • 🔗Bank Account Integration: This app is geared toward users who manage finances manually, so it doesn’t support linking to bank accounts.
  • 🏢Large Enterprises: If your business requires bank integration, payroll systems, or vendor payment management, this app may not be the best fit.

Why This Matters Defining our user target helps ensure contributors share the same vision: to build a tool focused on simplicity and accessibility for individuals and small businesses. Our goal with Pockaw is to empower users with an easy-to-use, playful, and effective budgeting tool, without the complexities often found in enterprise solutions.


🔧 Tools We Use

  • 🎨Figma: Our go-to design tool for creating beautiful, user-friendly interfaces.
  • 🛠️GitHub: Serving as our central hub for issue tracking and project management, keeping us organized and on track.
  • 🌐Crowdin: Enabling seamless collaborative translation and localization so Pockaw reaches users in their native languages.
  • 💻Flutter & Dart: The powerhouse behind Pockaw’s cross-platform experience, allowing us to build one app for multiple devices.
  • 💬Discord: Join our community forum on Discord for open discussions, updates, and direct feedback.

These tools help us bring Pockaw to life with efficiency, collaboration, and community-driven improvements.


⚙️ Installation

  1. Clone this repository
    git clone https://github.com/yourusername/pockaw.git
    
  2. Install dependencies Navigate to the project folder and run:
    flutter pub get
    
  3. Run the app Open the project in your preferred IDE (VSCode or Android Studio) and hit Run to launch Pockaw.

Pockaw is now set up and ready to go! 🎉


📆 Roadmap

Q1 - Core Setup & MVP Launch 8%

  • Splash & Onboarding - Design and implement welcoming splash screen and onboarding process.
  • Authentication - Enable login for offline use, allowing user sessions without registration.
  • Wallet & Pockets - Add multiple wallets, set balances, and rename wallets/pockets for easy management.
  • Expense & Income Tracking - Allow users to log income/expenses with details like category, date, title, and notes.
  • Custom Categories - Enable users to create and manage custom categories for better personalization.

Q2 - Enhanced Budgeting & Analytics 0%

  • Budget Goals & Tracking - Set monthly/weekly spending goals and visualize budget adherence.
  • Expense Summary & Analytics - Add charts for monthly income/expense trends, custom filters, and analytics.
  • User Reminders & Notifications - Implement notifications for due dates and spending goals.
  • Advanced Transaction Filters - Add filters for date, category, and other custom criteria for transactions.

Q3 - Enhanced User Experience 0%

  • Multi-Currency Support - Support multiple currencies for wallets and transactions.
  • Advanced Customization - Let users set date format, first day of the week/month, and other preferences in settings.
  • Improved Accessibility - Add accessibility features, including screen reader support and keyboard navigation.

Q4 - Innovative Features 0%

  • AI Summarization - Allow users to ask AI for summaries, e.g., “summarize my expenses this month.”
  • Notification Tracking Suggestions - Suggest transaction logging based on device notifications without automatic entry, ensuring user control.
  • Data Sync & Backup - Implement cloud sync and backup options to store data securely across devices.

🚀 Innovation and Future Releases

Ask AI Smart Summaries: Utilize AI to respond to queries like "Summarize my expenses this month" or "What were my top spending categories last quarter?"—getting insights has never been easier!

🔔Enhanced Mobile Experience Notification Suggestions: Pockaw will read device notifications from other apps when users make payments or receive transfers, offering personalized suggestions for tracking those transactions in your budget.

These planned features aim to make Pockaw even smarter and more user-friendly, providing insights and suggestions to simplify your financial management.


🖼️ Resources

For a detailed list of all resources, including links and specific guidelines, check out the Resources Document.


🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to Pockaw! Feel free to fork this project, submit issues, or open pull requests (PRs) to help us enhance the app. Your input is invaluable in making Pockaw better for everyone!


📄 License

This project is licensed under the LGPL v3 License. For more details, please refer to the LICENSE tab.