About Pocket

An independent, India-based software project · in Windows early access

The short version: Pocket exists because financial apps kept asking for the one thing they should never need — a copy of your financial life on someone else's server. Pocket is built the other way around: one private application, on your own device, honest about what it can and cannot do.

Why Pocket was built

Personal finance in India is scattered — bank apps, broker apps, spreadsheets, tax portals, insurance PDFs, and a dozen cloud services each holding a fragment of your life. The tools that promise to unify it usually do so by uploading everything to their cloud, monetising the data, or charging forever for access to your own numbers.

Pocket is a deliberate rejection of that trade. It unifies your financial picture — net worth, cash flow, investments, goals, debt, retirement, documents — in software that runs on your device, keeps its database with you, and earns money the old-fashioned way: by selling software, not data.

The principles it is built on

Local-first, honestly. Your database stays on your device; what is and isn't encrypted is documented precisely in the security architecture — including current limitations.
Never fake a number. If a price feed is down, Pocket says "unavailable". Projections show their assumptions. Sample data is labelled as sample data.
The Free plan is real. Track, edit and export everything, forever. Paid tiers add depth; they never hold your data hostage.
Honest marketing. No invented users, no fake reviews, no security theatre. What you read on this site is checked against the shipped product.

Who is behind it

Pocket is designed, built and supported by an independent developer in India. Support email replies come from the person who wrote the code.

A fuller founder profile and the registered operating entity will be published here before paid launch.

Where the product stands today

Windows early access — build v3.2.1 (6 October 2026), on the Download page.
30 redesigned screens across the desktop dashboard and phone experience.
Encrypted document vault and encrypted sync backups (AES-256-GCM; the local database and its own backups are plain copies, protected by your device), offline licensing, and a documented security architecture.
macOS and Linux desktop builds now compile and pass automated runtime checks; the native Android app is feature-complete and in internal testing — it already encrypts its database at rest. Public releases follow a full verification pass; desktop at-rest encryption is next on the roadmap.
Release notes currently ship by email; a public changelog page is planned.

Accountability

Questions, bugs, security reports and refunds all reach a human by email, normally within 48 hours. Our address is changing: the new one will be on our Contact page. The Terms, Privacy Policy, Refund Policy and License Terms say the rest, in plain language.

See also: Why Pocket · Roadmap · Support