Locent Your money stays on your device.
Locent is a personal expense tracker that keeps every transaction, budget and goal in a local database on your phone. There is no Locent account and no Locent server — because we never wanted your financial data in the first place.
US$5 on Google Play — bought once, not a subscription. Local pricing may differ.
Published by Faizan R. · faizan.r.1350@gmail.com
This month
$1,284.50
Groceries
Cash · 12 Jul
−$64.20
Salary
Bank · 1 Jul
+$3,200.00
Rent
Recurring · 1 Jul
−$1,100.00
Private by design, not by promise
These are architectural constraints in Locent, not policy preferences. The app makes exactly three kinds of network call: signing in to your own Google account, moving your own backups in and out of your own Drive, and checking for app updates.
No server
There is no Locent backend to breach. Your records live in SQLite on your phone and never reach infrastructure we control — none exists.
No tracking
Zero analytics, telemetry, advertising or crash-reporting SDKs are bundled into the app. Nobody is counting your taps, us included.
Your storage, your key
Backups are encrypted on your device before upload and land in a hidden, app-private folder in your own Google Drive.
Everything you need to track spending
A complete personal ledger — not a stripped-down demo that upsells you into a subscription.
Accounts & transactions
Cash, bank, card and savings accounts with expenses, income and transfers. Balances are computed from your opening balance and every record since.
Recurring rules
Rent, salary and subscriptions post automatically — or ask first. Miss a few days and the catch-up pass backfills them correctly when you return.
Budgets & goals
Budget periods anchored to any day of the month, with alerts at 80% and 100%, plus savings goals you contribute to over time.
Local reminders
Bill reminders and a daily logging nudge, scheduled by Android on your device. No push server sits between you and a notification.
Reports & CSV export
See where the month went, then export the raw transactions to CSV whenever you want your data somewhere else. It is yours to take.
Biometric lock
Optionally require a fingerprint or face unlock to open the app, on top of Android's own per-app storage sandbox.
How Google Drive backup works
Backup is optional and off until you turn it on. It is a backup, not a sync: you can restore onto a new phone and carry on, but running two devices at once is unsupported — the most recent backup wins.
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Step 1
You sign in to your own Google account
Locent requests a single scope,
drive.appdata. That grants access to a hidden, app-specific folder in your Drive and nothing else — none of your existing Drive files are visible to the app. -
Step 2
Your data is encrypted on the device
The ledger is packaged and encrypted with AES-256 before anything leaves your phone, using a key derived on-device. Only ciphertext travels.
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Step 3
The encrypted file lands in your Drive
It is stored in your Google account, in the app-data folder no other app can read. We never receive the file — we have no access to your Drive and run no server for it to land on.
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Step 4
You restore, or you revoke
Restoring downloads the file and decrypts it on the new device. You can delete backups from inside the app, or cut access entirely from your Google account permissions.
Locent's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including its Limited Use requirements.
Questions about Locent?
Support, privacy questions and bug reports all go to the same inbox, and they are read by the person who wrote the app.
faizan.r.1350@gmail.com