Pocket Sense
software-ace/pocketsense
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- Scan the code with your phone’s camera
- Tap Download anyway if the browser warns about the file
- Allow your browser to install unknown apps if Android asks
- Open Zapstore and finish the onboarding
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- Scan the code to open Pocket Sense in Zapstore, or search for it there
- Tap Install, and Download if Zapstore asks you to confirm the developer
- Confirm in Android’s install dialog. Allow Zapstore to install unknown apps if Android asks
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software-ace/pocketsense
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The app tracks your income, spending, budgets, bills and loans without an account and without the internet. Everything stays on your phone in an encrypted database. It leaves only as an encrypted backup, or, if you turn on sync, encrypted to your own paired devices on your Wi-Fi.
Pocket Sense tracks your income, spending, budgets, bills and loans without an account and without the internet. Everything stays on your phone in an encrypted database. It leaves only as an encrypted backup, or, if you turn on sync, encrypted to your own paired devices on your Wi-Fi.
Private by design
- No sign-in, no servers, no ads, no analytics. The network is used only to sync with your own devices on your local network, and only if you turn that on.
- Your data is encrypted with SQLCipher, using a key kept in the Android Keystore.
- Optional app lock with a 4–6 digit PIN, and fingerprint or face unlock.
- Hide amounts: every amount shows as ••• until you tap the eye. On by default.
Made for Jordan
- Amounts in Jordanian dinars with three decimals (JOD 12.500), or in one of 68 other currencies, from SAR and AED to USD and EUR.
- Full Arabic interface, right to left, with Latin digits.
Features
- Home: this month's income, spending and net, a 30-day spending chart, breakdowns by category and by merchant, income vs spending over 6 months, this month against last, spending by weekday, and the income and spending of any month you pick.
- Quick add: a home-screen widget and app-icon shortcuts for a new expense, income or voice entry.
- Activity: add, edit, search and filter transactions, each with a description, merchant and category.
- Merchants: keep a list in Settings. The merchant field searches it as you type and adds names it doesn't find.
- Voice entry (English): say "Spent 3.5 on lunch at Reem yesterday" and check the filled-in form.
- Budgets: weekly or monthly limits per category, with progress and over-budget warnings.
- Recurring: bills, subscriptions and salary with due dates, posted as transactions in one tap.
- Loans: money you lend or borrow, per person, with partial repayments and due dates. Each payment is also a normal entry, so your totals follow the cash.
- Backup: export everything to a password-encrypted file, or back up automatically once a day, and import it on another phone.
- Sync: pair your phone with your computer or another phone, and keep the same data on both over your Wi-Fi. No server, no internet.
Voice entry uses your phone's speech recognizer. On most phones that is a separate app with its own privacy terms; the sentence itself is interpreted inside Pocket Sense.
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Uses the microphone to record voice commands for adding transactions.
Permissions
- Microphone RECORD_AUDIO Record audio To capture voice input for transaction entry.
Release notes
⚠️ Before you update
- Update every paired device. This version stores accounts, so its data is a newer version. Sync only works between devices on the same version: until all your paired devices have updated, they won't sync with each other.
- There's no going back to 2.4.2. The first time 2.5.0 opens, it upgrades your data and puts every entry you already have into one account, Cash. An older version can't open it afterwards, or import a backup made by 2.5.0. Your entries, totals and charts stay exactly as they were.
💳 Accounts
Keep track of where your money is: cash, a bank account, savings, a card (#16).
- Everyone starts with one account, Cash, and adds the ones they need in Settings → Data → Accounts, or from Home. Each has an opening balance; a card can start below zero.
- Home's new Accounts section shows the total and each balance. Tap an account to see its entries and transfers, and what came in and went out this month.
- Transfer moves money between your accounts. It isn't income or spending, so your totals, charts and budgets stay the same.
- With only Cash, the entry form looks as before. Add a second account and it gets an Account field; new entries go into the account you choose as default.
- Close an account you stopped using: money left in it moves to another account (a card's debt is paid off from it), its history stays, and you can reopen it. Delete is for mistakes: everything in it moves to the account you pick, so no money is lost.
🔔 Reminders for bills and loans
A recurring item, or a loan with a due date, can remind you on the day or 1, 3 or 7 days before, at a due time you pick (#11).
- Create Transaction on the notification records the bill, or opens Record repayment for a loan, after your app lock. Dismiss closes it.
- Notifications show no amounts unless you turn on Settings → Security → Amounts in reminders.
- On Android they come even when the app is closed. Phones that stop apps' alarms (Xiaomi, Samsung and others) get a hint and a button to fix it. On Linux and Windows they show while the app is open, and any you missed when you open it.
📄 CSV import and export
Settings → Data → Export Transactions and Import Transactions use a plain spreadsheet file: date, type, amount, description, category, merchant and account (#13). Categories and Merchants have their own Import CSV and Export CSV in their ⋮ menu.
Every import shows a preview first: each row New, Duplicate or Rejected with the reason. Nothing is saved until you tap Import, and importing the same file twice adds nothing.
🏠 Your Home page
- Settings → Home page puts Home's sections in the order you want and hides the ones you don't need (#23).
- By Category and By Merchant have their own month picker, like Monthly Income vs Spending, which now sits right after them.
🪟 Windows
Pocket Sense now runs on Windows 10 and 11 (x64), with the same encrypted database, sync and reminders as Linux (#8). Voice entry isn't on Windows yet. The installers aren't code-signed yet, so SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher: choose More info → Run anyway. The first time sync starts, allow Pocket Sense on private networks when Windows Defender Firewall asks.
🐧 Linux
- The AppImage now updates itself in place from GitHub releases with Gear Lever, AppImageUpdate or Shelly. The app itself still never goes online.
- Arch, CachyOS and Manjaro:
linux/packaging/aur/PKGBUILDinstalls the release withmakepkg -si.
Changes and fixes
- Settings → Backup: Export data and Import data are now Export Backup and Import Backup, so they read apart from the CSV options.
- An amount with a decimal comma, like
12,5, is now rejected instead of being read as 125.1,234still works. - Pairing a device set up later no longer brings back the old name of a starter category you renamed, or one you deleted.
Download
Android
- Also on F-Droid, which keeps it updated. It ships these same signed APKs, so you can switch between the two and keep your data.
PocketSense-v2.5.0-arm64-v8a.apk: almost all modern Android phones. Use this one if unsure.PocketSense-v2.5.0-armeabi-v7a.apk: older 32-bit phonesPocketSense-v2.5.0-x86_64.apk: emulators and Chromebooks
Installs as an update over any earlier version and keeps your data.
Windows 10 or 11 (x64): pick one.
PocketSense-v2.5.0-windows-x64-setup.exe: run it. It installs just for you without admin rights, or for everyone if you choose.PocketSense-v2.5.0-windows-x64.msi: installs for everyone on the PC, for example when deploying it across an organization.PocketSense-v2.5.0-windows-x64.zip: unpack it anywhere and runpocket_sense.exe.
Linux (x86_64): pick one.
- Debian, Ubuntu, Mint:
PocketSense-v2.5.0-linux-x64.debsudo apt install ./PocketSense-v2.5.0-linux-x64.deb - Fedora, openSUSE:
PocketSense-v2.5.0-linux-x64.rpmsudo dnf install ./PocketSense-v2.5.0-linux-x64.rpm # or: sudo zypper install - Any distro:
PocketSense-v2.5.0-linux-x64.AppImage. Make it executable and run it. - Any distro:
PocketSense-v2.5.0-linux-x64.tar.gz. Unpack it and run./PocketSense/pocket_sense.
All need glibc 2.35 or newer and a running keyring (GNOME Keyring or KWallet). With the AppImage or the tarball you also need GTK 3, and parecord for voice entry (pulseaudio-utils on Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora, libpulse on Arch).
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