Blue Red Budget App

Blue Red Budget sits in a specific niche: offline-first renovation management for people who need structured financial and logistical control on a job site, not a web dashboard back at the office. Projects can cover apartments, houses, or commercial properties — each gets its own card showing area in square metres, room count, timeline in days, and a live budget progress bar tracking how much of the total has been spent.

What the workspace covers

• Estimates and material calculation — build cost estimates and calculate material quantities within a project before any work begins
• Expense tracking — spending is split across three categories: materials, works, and reserve, visible at the project level and rolled up in the Insights screen
• Photo documentation — attach photos directly to a project for visual records of progress or condition
• Inventory tracking — a warehouse section in settings manages stock separately from project-level estimates
• Change history — previous project states can be restored if edits need to be reversed
• Collaborative editing — multiple users can work on the same project through local device connections, without internet

Navigation and structure

The bottom tab bar moves between Projects, Calendar, Insights, Chat, and Settings. Each project card is filterable by status — Planning, Active, or Paused. The Calendar screen maps scheduled tasks to specific dates, while the Insights screen provides a cross-project analytics view with horizontal bar charts comparing planned and actual budgets. Settings include a library for materials, warehouse, contractors, tools, budget history, notifications, and backups, plus a configurable VAT percentage field.

One limitation worth noting

The app's color-coding carries significant functional weight — status badges, progress bars, and filter tabs all rely on blue and orange differentiation without text-only or pattern-based alternatives. Users with color vision deficiencies may find it harder to distinguish project states at a glance, and screen reader support for progress bars and icon-only buttons is noted as incomplete in the app's own accessibility documentation.

Blue Red Budget is a self-contained renovation ledger — the kind of tool that earns its place on a phone precisely because it works when the Wi-Fi doesn't.

A familiar structure in a different context

The app's icon is a gold metallic briefcase bearing a jester mask in blue and red — the same color pairing that names the app itself. It's a visual language borrowed from Joker's Jewels, a slot title where a jester character in a matching blue-and-red hat presides over spinning reels against a deep purple background scattered with crystalline gems. Both share that high-contrast, jewel-toned aesthetic: bold blues, sharp reds, metallic gold. One spins symbols for stakes; the other tracks square metres and spending. The icon is the clearest signal that the two worlds were designed in the same visual universe.