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A hand sorts rupee coins into budget envelopes beside a receipt and spending chart
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FROM THE WORKBENCH

Budget Buddy / FinBuddy

Making everyday money easier to understand. Expense tracking, budgets, shared spending, and a KautilyaAI assistant in one personal finance app.

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Built with

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Firebase
  • Gemini
01 / THE IDEA

What it does

Budget Buddy grew into FinBuddy: a personal finance app for understanding everyday spending, setting budgets and keeping shared expenses in view. The focus is the relationship between small transactions and the bigger monthly picture.

Alongside expense and budget tools, KautilyaAI adds a conversational layer inspired by Arthashastra principles. A metrics explorer offers different ways to break down spending, using filters and visualizations.

02 / INSIDE THE PROJECT

A closer look

Capture spending

Record expenses, attach receipts and use recurring templates for repeated entries.

Budget with context

Track category budgets over different periods and review earlier months.

Share the picture

Track people and split costs with friends or family.

Explore patterns

Use spending charts, custom metrics and KautilyaAI questions to investigate the recorded data.