Zero-based envelope budgeting for your household — from the same family that keeps a shop’s numbers honest. Desktop-first and local-first: your money stays on your machine.
You’ll need Node.js installed, then unzip and double-click Launch.vbs. Windows only for now. No installer, no account, no email asked.
Unregistered copies are fully functional — a license key only records that the copy is yours. Changes land in the changelog.
Zero-based envelopes: every dollar gets a job before the month spends it for you.
Give every dollar a job — rent, groceries, the car, the cushion. The budget starts from zero every time; no magic averages, no “about right.”
You budget the money you actually received, paycheck by paycheck — not an imaginary month. Weekly, bi-weekly, twice a month: the rhythm follows yours.
Each envelope decides what leftovers do — pile up toward a goal, or start fresh next month. Your rules, envelope by envelope.
An overspent envelope goes negative and stays negative until you cover it. Signed truth — the same rule Shop Manager applies to margins: never hide a loss.
Bills with their due dates, goals with their targets, debts with a payoff plan — all living inside the same budget, not in three other apps.
Multiple accounts — checking, savings, cards — and import of the CSV/OFX files your bank already exports. No bank credentials, no linking anything.
Bring an Anthropic API key, or run the free local AI (Ollama) on your own PC. Everything below is optional — the app fully works with AI off.
New transactions sorted into the right envelopes — you confirm, it learns.
Snap the receipt; the amount, the merchant and the envelope fill themselves in.
Ask before you buy — the answer comes from your envelopes, not from wishful thinking.
Every month, a plain-language rundown: where the money went, what ran over, what to adjust.
Local-first. No cloud account, no server of ours holding your finances, and no bank credentials on anyone’s server — you export a CSV/OFX file from your bank and import the file. Your money’s records live on your machine.
One-time license, like Shop Manager — pay once, own it, no subscription. Live bank sync may come later as an optional paid add-on; the core app never needs it.
Once. Not a month — once. Yours to keep, on as many of your own machines as you use.
Already own ProTech Tool Run? Budget is yours at no charge — email me and I'll send your key.
The download above is the whole app. Nothing is locked, nothing nags, and it never expires — a key just records that the copy is yours.
Want a key? Email nuneztavarezjacob927@gmail.com — a real person answers.
One idea, four tools: pay once, own it, your data on your machine — and numbers that never lie to you.
Run an auto shop from one screen — jobs, invoices, inspections, inventory, analytics.
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🧰Your tools as a system — what you own, what a job is missing, what it costs to be ready.
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🏎️The project-car planner — parts in dependency order, honest projected gains, every number carrying a receipt.
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Envelope budgeting for the household — the same honest-numbers rules, pointed at home.
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Questions about Budget? Email nuneztavarezjacob927@gmail.com — a real person answers.
Built to the same rules as the shop tools: pay once, own it, keep your data. It’s here — download it above and it runs on your machine, offline, today.