Glacier

Glacier is an offline budgeting app designed to help you gain insight on your spending and take action to save more money. I first designed the app in Figma and thought about all the features I wanted to include. I tried to add local AI to read receipts, but this wasn’t accurate enough, so I shifted towards making it easy to add expenses, including recurring expenses. I also added a lot of nice to have features like graphs, multiple languages and currencies, dark and light mode. I also added official Statbel data so the user can see how he is doing compared to a similar family in Belgium (currently only Belgian data, although I kept the structure open to easily add new countries by adding json files to the app).

All the financial data is stored in a local encrypted SQLite database. The encryption key is stored in the operating system’s secure key storage. The app itself is protected with biometrics. I also added a Google Drive integration where it can automatically export data (you can also manually import and export data). This data is still encrypted and can only be decrypted with a password the user sets.