Evercruz Wealth
A personal budgeting app. Designed and built with Claude Code.
What is Evercruz Wealth?
A zero-based budget system for me and my husband.
Our original budget lived in a Google Sheet, plus a companion app I built in Google AppSheet for mobile entry. It worked, but manual entry was the only way to get transactions in. If we fell a week behind, the catch-up was too much friction.
The new version makes manual entry optional. I drop in our bank statements and the app categorises each transaction based on past merchant history. Building it custom also let me add features that weren't possible with AppSheet.
My favorite features
Importing backlogged transactions
I drop a bank statement in and every new transaction is logged, either categorised automatically or waiting in a queue for me to confirm.
Splitting a transaction into multiple spending categories
A grocery run is rarely just groceries. In our old system, I had to type a separate entry for every category. Now I split the transaction right in the queue and each piece goes to its own envelope.
Checking category balances
I can check where each category sits this month (under, spent, or over). If I want to see where money was spent I can look into the transactions under each section.
Looking back, month by month
With visual charts I can see total spending for the current and past months, break it down by category, and check what we actually saved.
What I learned from building it
This project showed me that I can build software to fit the shape of my life, rather than finding the closest solution in an existing app. It's opened up new ways software can improve my life and help me build better habits.
As I've just finished the build, I'm looking forward to continue to iterate on the project and find the ways to improve my financial health.