Cashew is a minimalist personal finance and budgeting app built with Flutter, designed to help individuals track expenses and income easily. It emphasizes simplicity and clarity, offering straightforward interfaces for adding transactions, categorizing them, and monitoring balances. Users can visualize their financial activity with charts and summaries, giving them insight into spending patterns. Because it is open source, developers can modify or extend it with features like recurring transactions, custom categories, or integrations. Cashew is cross-platform, so the same codebase runs smoothly on Android and iOS. Its design is focused on giving control to users without unnecessary complexity, making it suitable as a learning project as well as a practical budgeting tool.
Features
- Tracks expenses, budgets, and financial trends via intuitive UI
- Built using Flutter with local SQL persistence via Drift and optional Firebase sync
- Featured across tech media and lauded for design (e.g., “Best Open Source Apps” lists)
- Cross-platform support via Flutter demand across Android, iOS, and Web desktops
- Highly rated (4.9) with 100k+ downloads and in-depth code review revealing lessons on maintainability and architecture
- Rich community interest and educational value for Flutter best practices
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