Source-Available Personal Finance — Transparent by Design
Budgie's source is public. Audit the code, verify our privacy claims, and contribute — because your financial app should have nothing to hide.
- Source code is publicly available — read every line that touches your data
- Privacy claims are verifiable, not just promised
- Community contributions welcome — features built by people who use the app
- Source-available license — fork it, run your own build, take your data with you
- Transparent roadmap and public issue tracker
Read the Code, Verify the Claims
Budgie uses a source-available license that allows you to view, modify, and contribute to the code while ensuring only we can monetize the official app. This keeps the project sustainable while maintaining transparency.
The repository includes the full mobile app, the on-device AI layer, the contracts package, and this landing page. Nothing is hidden behind a proprietary SDK or closed binary.
Source-Available License — No Lock-In
Budgie ships under a source-available license that lets you read every line, fork it, and run your own build. Your financial data belongs to you — not to a vendor who can change terms, raise prices, or shut down. If Budgie ever stops meeting your needs, you take your data and your build with you.
Contributing is straightforward: open an issue, discuss the change, and submit a pull request. Features requested by real users and built by real users have a direct path into the app without a gatekeeper commercial roadmap.
Transparency as a Security Property
Public source is not just a development philosophy — it is a security property. Closed finance apps ask you to trust that they do not log your transactions, share data with advertisers, or sell behavioral profiles. Budgie asks you to check. The on-device architecture, encryption at rest, and zero-telemetry design are all visible in the repository for any developer to verify.
Every promise here has a file behind it
One settings screen, and a public repository where every line of it can be checked.
Read the code that holds your money. The repository is the product, and nothing about how Budgie stores or protects your data is compiled in secret.
Scroll Settings end to end and there is no analytics group, because there is no telemetry to switch off.
Fork it if we disappear. The database format and the app are both yours to keep.
- Read the code behind this claim
- And the lock that enforces it
Feature comparison
| Feature | Budgie | Closed-source budget apps |
|---|---|---|
| Source code | Public on GitHub | Closed |
| Privacy claims | Verifiable in source | Marketing copy only |
| Forkable | Yes | No |
| Community PRs accepted | Yes | No |
| Vendor risk | Low — fork survives | High — shutdown = data loss risk |