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Welcome to Pockaw!

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📝 Overview

Hello, Pockies! say goodbye to spreadsheet-based expense and budget tracking! Pockaw is your new intuitive, user-friendly app for seamless pocket and wallet-sized finance buddy, tailored for both personal use and small businesses. 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, no hidden costs, 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 or request any access like spreadsheet-based does.
  • No Ads, 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 gifts, new house furniture, to wishlist shopping.

* Coming soon


🎯 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.
  • 💻Flutter & Dart: The powerhouse behind Pockaw's cross-platform experience, allowing us to build one app for multiple devices.
  • 🛠️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.

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


🤝 Community

Connect with other Pockies, share tips, and contribute to the growth of Pockaw. Whether you're seeking advice, reporting issues, or sharing feedback, our community spaces are here for you.


⚙️ Installation to Contribute

  1. Clone this repository
    git clone https://github.com/layground/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 (March 2025) - Core Setup & MVP Launch 8%

  • Splash & Onboarding - Design and implement welcoming splash screen and onboarding process.
  • Authentication? - Just fill personal data for offline use, no registration.
  • Pockets & Wallets - Add multiple sources, set balances, and customize 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.
  • Publish on Google Play - The first fully offline experience of Pockaw.

Q2 (June 2025) - 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 (September 2025) - Enhanced User Experience 0%

  • Transaction Reminder - Forgetting things? Chill! Pockaw will remind you to record 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.
  • Release on Web - Get a wider view and perspective of Pockaw (of course need a bit of connection).

Q4 (December 2025) - Shields On! 0%

  • Data Sync & Backup - Implement cloud sync and backup options to store data securely across devices.
  • Biometrics and PIN - Add layers of security so you are in charge of your own wealth condition.
  • Release on Desktop - Windows users will get the official desktop look and feel of Pockaw. **

🖥️ Platform Release Priority

  • Android
  • Web
  • Windows
  • iOS *
  • MacOS *
  • Linux **
  • * Sponsors and/or donations are expected as Apple Developer Program registration cost dollars a year.
  • ** Linux will followed after Windows release is stable.

🚀 Innovation and Future Releases

💸Multi-Currency Support

  • 1 Wallet, 1 Currency: Set a different currency of your each wallet. Yes! each wallet.

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.

  • Home Screen Widget: No bother opening the app. Pockaw will appear on your mobile home screen, add transaction quickly as well as the simple summary.

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

These features are promising but not a promise. We will need to see first on how this project and community grow.


🎨 Design Files

We're excited to share our design files with the community! These files are made available to encourage collaboration, gather feedback, and provide learning opportunities for designers and developers alike.

Feel free to explore, experiment, and contribute your ideas!

Access the Design File

You can find the Figma design file here.

Guidelines for Use

  • The design files are provided under the Creative Commons License.
  • Use them for feedback, personal projects, or contributions to Pockaw.
  • Please do not use the designs for commercial purposes without prior approval.

Let us know your thoughts or submit your own suggestions through GitHub Discussions or on Discord!


🖼️ 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!

🖥️ Landing Page

Interested in making some changes for our landing page? Just head to our dedicated landing page repo then do above steps.


📄 License

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