Smart Expense Tracker

A simple Python CLI app for tracking expenses, with budget alerts and a category breakdown chart.

Features

• Add expenses by category (Food, Auto, Gold, Bills, Travel, Shopping)
• Warns you if an expense would put you over a monthly budget
• Shows a report with totals per category
• Generates a bar chart of spending by category

Run it

pip install -r requirements.txt
python tracker.py

Files

• tracker.py - the app
• expenses.csv - where your expenses get saved (created automatically)
• expenses.png - chart generated from the "Chart" option

Example

=== Smart Expense Tracker ===
1. Add Expense  2. Report  3. Chart  4. Exit
Choose: 1

=== Add Expense ===
Amount (₹): 1250
Categories: Food, Auto, Gold, Bills, Travel, Shopping
Category: Food
Note: Grocery shopping
✅ Expense added.