Ocular
Simplistic and straightforward budgeting app to track your budget across months and years.
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Still maintained? Yes: 7 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.4.1 (Sep 2026).
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At a glance
Ocular quick facts
- Health score
- 64/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 576
- Last commit
- 1 month ago (Sep 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.4.1, Sep 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Ocular scores 64/100, #36 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 7 commits in the last 90 days earn 8.2 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.4.1, 2 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 576 stars add 11.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 26.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 8.2 / 35
7 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.4.1 released 2 months ago
- Stars 11.0 / 20
576 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 7
- Last 90 days
- 120
- Last 12 months
- 1 month ago
- Last push
Ranked #36 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Kresus (#35) and Fava (#37) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Docker |
| Latest release | v2.4.1 · 2 months ago |
| Stars | 576 |
| Open issues | 21 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | simonwep/ocular ↗ |
Ocular vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Ocular (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| Firefly III | 98 | 25k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| monetr | 91 | 691 | FSL-1.1-MIT | today |
| MyFin Budget | 90 | 316 | GPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| Econumo | 88 | 120 | MIT | today |
| Ocular (this tool) | 64 | 576 | MIT | 1 month ago |
Ocular: common questions
Is Ocular still maintained?
Ocular had 7 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 month ago; the latest tagged release, v2.4.1, is from 2 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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