A containerized R Shiny app to visualize expense trends from data exported by the MOZE accounting mobile app. MOZE itself does not provide built-in trend charts, so this tool helps you track how the cost of a specific category (or sub-category) changes over time—for example, how your “lunch” expenses evolve month by month.
- Docker (make sure you have Docker installed on your machine)
Pull the Docker image from Docker Hub:
### pull from my dockerhub
docker pull jordan841220/moze_trend:20250522
### run the container
docker container run -d --rm -p 3838:3838 jordan841220/moze_trend:20250522
- Once the container is up and running, open your browser and navigate to: http://localhost:3838/moze-expense-app/
- Prepare your data file:
- MOZE can only export CSV, but this Shiny app expects a .txt file.
- Option A: Export a CSV from MOZE, then rename it to have a .txt extension.
- if you encounter encoding issues:
- Export as CSV.
- Open it in a text editor (e.g., VS Code) and save/convert it to UTF-8 encoding.
- Rename the UTF-8 CSV file to .txt.
- Upload the resulting .txt file via the Shiny interface.
- The app will parse your MOZE expenses and display trend charts for any category or sub-category you select.
- Since MOZE may include transactions in different currencies, you’ll need to enter your API key for https://api.exchangerate.host/convert to perform currency conversions.
The app assumes that each line in your renamed .txt file follows MOZE’s standard export format (date, category, sub-category, amount, etc.).
