Expense Tracker GUI

A simple, user-friendly desktop application for tracking expenses, setting budgets, and visualizing spending trends — built with Python, ttkbootstrap, and matplotlib.

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📌 Features

• Track daily expenses with category, amount, and description.
• Customizable settings (currency, theme, budget, CSV delimiter).
• Charts & visualizations of spending trends.
• Data stored locally in CSV/JSON format for easy backup.
• Clean, themed UI powered by ttkbootstrap.

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🛠️ Setup Instructions

1️⃣ Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/GeenaEvangelin04/expense_tracker_gui.git
cd expense_tracker_gui

### 2️⃣ Create a virtual environment
python -m venv venv

### 3️⃣ Activate the environment
Windows (PowerShell):
venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

macOS / Linux:
source venv/bin/activate

### 4️⃣ Install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

### ▶️ Running the App
python main.py

📂 Data Storage
Expenses are saved in:
expenses.csv

Settings are saved in:
data/settings.json

Templates for fresh start:
expenses_template.csv
data/settings_template.json

To reset data:

1. Delete expenses.csv or data/settings.json.
2. Copy from templates:

cp expenses_template.csv expenses.csv
cp data/settings_template.json data/settings.json