Novalux Expense

Private, offline expense tracking

A local-first money tracker for desktop and mobile. Your finances stay on your device — fast, private, and available offline.

  • Your data stays on your device, always
  • Desktop and mobile from one codebase
  • Instant search, categories and analytics
The explainer · 60 seconds

Money tracking that never leaves your device

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On device

Your money stays on your device

☁ cloud account
on your device
🔒expenses.db

Never leaves your machine

No cloud account holding your finances hostage — your books live in a file on your machine.

What it does

Everything Expense gives you

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Local-first by default

Every transaction lives in a database on your device. No account, no sync you didn’t ask for, nothing leaves your machine.

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One app, every screen

The same codebase runs as a desktop app and a mobile app, so your money looks and works the same everywhere.

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Instant search & categories

Find any expense in a keystroke and slice spending by category, the moment you type.

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Offline analytics

See where your money goes with charts that work on a plane, a train, or a dead connection.

How it works

From start to done, step by step

STEP 01

Add an expense

Log what you spent in a couple of taps — amount, category, note.

STEP 02

Categorize it

Sort spending into categories that make sense to you.

STEP 03

Search & filter

Pull up any transaction instantly, by text, date, or category.

STEP 04

See the analytics

Watch the charts show exactly where your money went.

Ready to try Expense?

A local-first money tracker for desktop and mobile. Your finances stay on your device — fast, private, and available offline.