Birikim

About the app

Most budgeting apps on the market show you how much you spent last month. I wrote Birikim because that is not the question that actually helps: people do not want the past, they want to know what to do right now.

So I put forecasting at the centre of the app. Using past data and your weekly spending rhythm, it works out where you will land at the end of the month at this pace. It also compares category by category, showing which line item has drifted outside your own average.

The part I spent the most time on was Turkish natural language input. When someone types "35 tl kahve içtim" ("spent 35 lira on coffee"), the amount, the category and the date all have to be extracted, and Turkish suffixes plus free-form spelling make this noticeably harder than English. For itemised receipt parsing I run the OCR on the device — the receipt image never leaves the phone.

The subscription detector picks up recurring payments and questions which ones you actually use. The investment simulator makes the "what would you have today if you had saved 500 ₺ a month" question concrete; it is built as an educational module that points people to licensed institutions.

The app is under active development. The MVP scaffold and the UI layer are ready; the Firebase integration, the AI service connection and the store release are in the next phases.