Buddi

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Buddi

Buddi on OS X
Developer:	Wyatt Olson
Latest release:	2.0.1 / 6 December 2006
OS:	Cross-platform
Use:	Accounting
License:	GPL
Website:	http://buddi.sourceforge.net

Buddi is a cross platform, open source personal finance and budgeting program, aimed at users without a great deal of budgeting knowledge. Although still being actively developed, it is a stable application which should meet the needs of most home users.

Buddi is released in two branches: Stable and Development. The Stable branch does not change much, and only adds bugfixes or other trivial changes; the Development branch is where all the new features are worked on. Once a development version has been released for some time, and is considered to be working correctly, it will be released as the new stable version.

On 6 December 2006, Buddi 2.0.1 Stable was released. This version only changed some translated terms (mainly in the Norsk translation), and fixed some spelling mistakes in English (US).

On 4 November 2006, Buddi 2.0.0 Stable was released. This version added a number of new features, including:

A rewrite of the Transactions window, which helps to increase the speed when working with hundreds or thousands of transactions
Finalization of the Plugin architecture
Addition of Dutch and French translations
A language editor to help make additional translations
Numerous UI improvements

[edit] Functionality

Buddi's functionality falls in three main categories: first, it allows users to set up accounts and record their financial transactions; second, it provides a mechanism to set up a simple budget, by defining expense and income categories (such as salary, rent, groceries, etc); third, it shows how well users have kept their budget over a defined period of time.

For users who are looking for more advanced features, Buddi supports features such as scheduled transactions and powerful reports. Since the source code is available, programmers can also improve features which they feel are lacking.

Buddi is written by Wyatt Olson, and is released under the GNU General Public License. Buddi is written in Java, so it can run on most major operating systems. It supports easy translation into multiple languages, and is currently available in English, Spanish, German, Norwegian, Dutch, and French.