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Introduction

Pocketr is an open source personal finance and household budgeting app designed to help people understand where their money goes, plan with confidence, and manage shared finances without turning budgeting into a chore.

At its core, Pocketr uses double-entry bookkeeping. That means every movement of money is recorded in a balanced way, following the same accounting principles used in real-world financial systems. You do not need to be an accountant to use Pocketr, but this foundation gives the app a reliable structure for accounts, transactions, balances, and future financial features.

What Pocketr Helps You Do​

Pocketr includes the familiar tools you would expect from a budgeting application:

  • Create and organize financial accounts
  • Record income, expenses, and transfers
  • Track transactions across different accounts
  • Use account-level currency support
  • Build a clearer picture of your personal budget

The goal is to keep day-to-day budgeting simple while keeping the underlying model strong enough to grow with more advanced use cases.

Built For Households​

Many budgets are not managed by one person alone. Pocketr supports household budgeting out of the box, so families, partners, and shared households can work from the same financial picture.

You can invite members, manage shared income and expenses, and keep everyone aligned around the same budget. This makes Pocketr useful not only for personal tracking, but also for collaborative financial planning.

Why Double-Entry Matters​

Most budgeting apps focus only on simple lists of transactions. Pocketr is built on accounting mechanics from the beginning. Each transaction has a clear source and destination, which helps protect data integrity and makes balances easier to trust.

This approach gives Pocketr a practical path to support more powerful features over time, such as richer reporting, better account relationships, and more precise financial workflows.

Open Source And Free Forever​

Pocketr is fully open source, transparent, useful, and free forever. The goal is to build a budgeting tool that people can trust, inspect, run for themselves, and improve together.

This documentation will grow alongside the app, explaining how Pocketr works, how to run it, and how contributors can help shape it.