Ocular

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A self-hosted budgeting app for planning income and expenses by category across months and years.

Adopt it when

You budget by planning yearly figures rather than tracking every transaction.

Watch out

No transaction import or bank sync, and it is a one-person project.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Self-hosted server

Built with

Vue, TypeScript and Go

How established

Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v2.4.1.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: Ocular → Core → TypeScript → Go → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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