PocketPilot

Project information

PocketPilot is a GUI-based personal finance and monthly budgeting application designed to help users plan income, track expenses, manage budget categories, and understand spending behavior through clear monthly insights.

The project is built in Go with a local-first architecture using SQLite for data storage. The initial alpha release was delivered as a command-line interface using Cobra to validate the core budgeting engine before moving toward a cross-platform graphical interface.

PocketPilot includes core budgeting features such as monthly income setup, category-based budgeting, expense tracking, safe daily spend calculation, monthly summaries, and category-wise breakdowns. It also introduces practical personal finance modes including Survival Mode, Moving City Mode, Job Hunt Mode, mood-based expense tagging, and emotional spending insights to help users understand how stress, relocation, and job-search phases affect spending patterns.

The project is version-controlled on GitLab, with releases from v0.1.0 to v0.1.2 covering the initial alpha build, command polish, database path visibility, version tracking, and improved help documentation.

Go CSV go-cli Platform: Linux SQLite