Lately, i've been trying to manage my finances in a spreadsheet, and as someone that works with data, i've been disappointed with the tools that we have available today.

There is NOTHING wrong on using sheets to manage stuff, but it feels basic and most of the time you are limited to the sheet charts which doesn't have the best UX/UI in my opinion.

If they had, Microsoft wouldn't have developed PowerBI for Excel users.

With that, i've tried some apps that manages your finances, but most of them have some weird rules on how you need to set your accounts, with not so responsive UIs and I don't have the enitre flexibility on visualizing stuff on the way that I want.

And the main point that it doesn't make sense on my view, Most of the current finance management apps are...

PAID

It kinda sounds counter intuitive on my head

why would you pay something to manage your money?

I know it's not cheap to create an app, specially with all the licennces and infra costs that exists, you need to figure out a way to monetize the users so your app can stay alive.

What if there's another way that I can organize with better views and avoid raw sheets?

Last year I discovered a cool Python library called Streamlit, which proposes to be a better way to ship data apps.

The library is very easy to use and it's fast to create responsive UIs in a very pythonic way. With this idea in mind I decided to join both my good python wizardry with my bad front-end skills to create a new finance app.

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Expendi was created to help people manage their finances in a simple and intuitive way. With Expendi you can insert your transactions, categorize them and visualize them in a simple and interactive way, and the most important feature: it's free!

Feel free to test it on the Streamlit Cloud and check the source code on Github

Hopefully it can help you take control of your finances!