A native macOS money + life operating system for Apple Silicon: not a web wrapper. Local-first and on-device-AI-first: the full money core (payments, wallets, projects, spending, loans, stats), People (clients, entities, vendors), a Life layer (journal, faith, body, sadaka, Quran), and a grounded AI assistant + curiosity engine, all on a SwiftData store on your Mac. Works offline, no account. Cloud AI only if you turn it on.

What it is

┌───────────────┬──────────────────────────────┬──────────────────────────┐
│ SIDEBAR        │ MONEY                        │ INTELLIGENCE             │
│ ▸ Today        │ ▸ Payments (chain + fees)    │ ▸ Grounded AI chat       │
│ ▸ Dashboard    │ ▸ Wallets / withdrawals      │ ▸ Curiosity engine       │
│ ▸ Money        │ ▸ Projects · Spending        │ ▸ Insights · notifications│
│ ▸ People       │ ▸ Loans · Stats · Activity   │                          │
│ ▸ Life         ├──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────┤
│ ▸ Intelligence │ LIFE  journal · prayer + qibla + Quran · body · sadaka   │
├───────────────┴─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Menu-bar glance · ⌘K command palette · ⌘F search · WidgetKit · Shortcuts │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Why it exists

Freelane started as a freelance money tracker and grew into a single-person LifeOS. The money spine is real accounting (payments are chains of hops with per-hop fees, wallets reconcile against a single ledger, holding wallets and withdrawals are modelled deliberately) and around it sit spending, loans, faith, body, and an AI layer that actually reads your data. It runs natively, offline, and keeps your finances on your own Mac.

Highlights

MONEY        Payments as fee-aware chains, wallet balances from one ledger,
             holding-wallet + withdrawal accounting, projects, year-in-review.

SPENDING     Per-spend vendors with price memory, categories, safe-to-spend,
             receipt OCR, heatmaps - the wallet you pick is the wallet that pays.

LOANS        Bidirectional, partial returns, forgive→sadaka. One card per
             person with the full lend/repay history behind it.

LIFE         Journal/letters, prayer times + qibla + Quran, body check-ins,
             and a zakat-anchored sadaka pool with its own ledger.

AI           On-device first (local Ollama → Apple FoundationModels), cloud
             Gemini only if you opt in. Grounded chat, short insights, a
             curiosity engine that learns and stops re-asking.

NATIVE       Liquid Glass throughout, MenuBarExtra, ⌘K / ⌘F palettes,
             WidgetKit widgets, App Intents / Shortcuts. SwiftData on-device.

Install

1.  Download Freelane.dmg from the latest release ↓
2.  Open it and drag Freelane into Applications
3.  First launch:  right-click Freelane → Open   (or System Settings →
    Privacy & Security → "Open Anyway")

Note

Freelane is ad-hoc signed, not notarized (no paid Apple Developer account, like most open-source Mac apps). macOS asks you to confirm once on first launch: after that it opens normally.

⬇ Download the latest release

Updates

Updates are manual and in-app. When a new version is published here, Freelane surfaces it under Settings → About: click Install Update… (or Freelane ▸ Check for Updates… in the menu bar) for a one-click download → install → relaunch, with the changelog shown. Nothing downloads in the background; you're always in control. Your data lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Freelane/, so updates never touch it.

Build from source

git clone https://github.com/hatimhtm/freelane.git
cd freelane
open Freelane.xcodeproj     # select the Freelane scheme → Run  (Xcode 26)

Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe) and full Xcode 26. xcode-select may point at the Command Line Tools, so for command-line builds pass DEVELOPER_DIR (see BUILD.md). The project uses an Xcode 16+ synchronized folder group: any .swift added under Freelane/ compiles automatically.

To cut a release: bump MARKETING_VERSION + CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION in the Xcode project, add a section to CHANGELOG.md, run scripts/release.sh, then publish with the gh release create line it prints (tag vX.Y.Z).

Privacy

Local-first. No account, no analytics. The only network calls are: checking this GitHub repo for updates when you ask, optional Supabase sync if you enable it, and cloud AI (Gemini) only if you turn it on, with health/intimate terms scrubbed before anything leaves the device. Your data lives in ~/Library/Application Support/Freelane/.

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