Ocular Hosting Live In 5 Minutes

Deploy Ocular hosting and run a self-hosted budget tracker on a server you control, instead of handing your figures to a third-party finance service. xCloud runs the pinned Ocular v2.4.1 image as a single container with an embedded database, seeds your administrator login with a generated 24-character password, mounts a persistent volume and publishes it over HTTPS in minutes, so only people you add can see your figures.

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What is Ocular?

Ocular is an open-source personal budget tracker that upstream describes as fancy, simplistic and straight-forward. It has a dashboard with statistics and charts including a Sankey diagram, budgets across multiple years with carry-over, an all-time overview, light and dark themes, several languages, and it installs as a Progressive Web App. A self-hosted Ocular is an alternative to a subscription budgeting service such as YNAB, and the code is released under the MIT licence.

On xCloud the template runs Ocular v2.4.1 from the official image, pinned by digest, as a single container with an embedded database on the ocular_data volume. The administrator is seeded for you with a generated password, there is no public sign-up, and every page and API call needs a login. Upstream can import a Google Sheets annual planner and export your data as JSON.

From Sign-Up to a Live Budget Tracker In Just 3 Easy Steps

Self-hosting a budget app normally means a container, a volume, a first user, a domain and a certificate before the first expense is logged. This is the same result without assembling any of it.

Step 01
Sign Up
Create your xCloud account and pick Ocular from the OneClick catalog. Choose your domain and an Admin Username (letters, numbers and underscores; the default is admin).
Step 02
We Deploy It For You
One click. We bring up the official Ocular image, pinned by immutable digest, as a single container with its embedded database, mount the ocular_data volume, generate a 24-character administrator password and a session signing secret, and publish it over HTTPS on your domain.
Step 03
Sign In And Enter Your First Budget
Open your HTTPS Ocular URL and sign in with your username and the generated password from the protected installation credentials. Change that password in your account settings, then enter your first budget values.

Everything Ocular Does, On Your Own Server

Ocular runs in full here: a budget tracker with a dashboard, charts and yearly overviews, on your own domain with your data on your own volume.

Dashboard And Charts
A dashboard with extensive statistics and multiple charts, including a Sankey diagram, shows where the money goes.
Budgets Across Years
Track budgets across multiple years, carry a budget over to the next year and set the financial year to start at any month.
All-Time Overview
An all-time overview of your budgets, with analytics, sits next to the yearly view.
Themes, Languages And Currencies
Light and dark themes, multi-language support and all common currencies are built in.
Mobile And PWA
Ocular is optimised for mobile devices and can be installed as a Progressive Web App.
Login Required Everywhere
There is no public sign-up: only users an administrator creates can log in, and every page and API call requires a login.

Everything You Need To Run Your Budget Tracker 24/7

Managed hosting for Ocular, so the parts that keep it online are not your problem.

Ocular v2.4.1 deployed instantly
Official image pinned by digest
Admin password generated for you
Kept behind xCloud nginx
Free SSL certificate
Server backups and snapshots
Server security updates included
30+ server locations
Unused balance refunded

What You Can Do With Ocular

Household budget on your own server
Keep personal or household budget data on a server you control instead of handing it to a third-party finance service.
Year-by-year planning
Track budgets across multiple years, carry a budget over to the next one and start your financial year in any month.
Seeing where the money goes
Use the dashboard statistics and charts, including a Sankey diagram, and the all-time overview to review spending across years.
Moving off a spreadsheet
Import your data from a Google Sheets annual planner, and export it again as JSON whenever you want a copy.

Ocular Screenshots

The Ocular dashboard showing budget statistics and charts

The Ocular yearly dashboard overview of a budget year

The Ocular all-time overview of budgets across years

Ocular vs Alternatives

Actual Budget: Another self-hosted budgeting app you can run on xCloud; it is built around envelope budgeting with optional bank-import integrations, where Ocular is a lighter single-container tracker with an embedded database.
Firefly III: A personal finance manager with accounts, rules, recurring activity and reports, also available on xCloud; Ocular centres on budgets, charts and yearly overviews.
YNAB: A hosted subscription budgeting service; Ocular is open source and keeps your figures on a server you control.
Spreadsheets: A Google Sheets annual planner is a common starting point; Ocular can import data from one and adds a dashboard with charts on top.

Simple Pricing. Everything Included.

Dedicated Cloud VPS sizes, pre-configured for Ocular hosting. Pick the one that fits, and resize any time.

Cloud VPS 6 GB

Cloud VPS 16 GB

More headroom if Ocular sits alongside other finance and admin tools.

$59.99per month

16 GB RAM
6 vCPU cores
200 GB NVMe SSD
30 TB
Unlimited

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Every size is a dedicated Cloud VPS we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Billed monthly with no lock-in — delete the server and the unused balance comes back to your account. Ocular itself is released by its maintainers under the MIT licence.

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Ready To Run Your Own Budget Tracker?

Ocular on xCloud runs on a dedicated Cloud VPS that we provision, patch, monitor and restore. Deploy faster. Own the server. Stay in control.

Fast Provisioning
Deploy faster using an xCloud Managed Server built with optimized stacks and high-speed SSDs.
Enterprise-grade security
Protect your infrastructure with a free SSL certificate and more advanced security features at no additional cost.
Intuitive Control Panel
From Server creation to application deployment, everything can be managed from our intuitive control panel.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns you may have.

Is Ocular free?

Yes. Ocular is MIT licensed, so there is no subscription or per-user fee for the budgeting app. Your cost is the Cloud VPS that keeps the embedded database on ocular_data, however many accounts an administrator creates.

How much RAM does Ocular need?

The manifest asks for 128 MB of RAM, 1 CPU core and 1 GB of disk, and QA saw roughly 18 MiB idle. That is a very small Go service. We sell the 6 GB tier, which leaves the server free for other apps beside your budget.

Can you self-host Ocular with Docker?

Yes, and this template is Ocular Docker hosting without the setup: the official ghcr.io/simonwep/ocular v2.4.1 image pinned by digest, one container with an embedded database, the ocular_data volume mounted and HTTPS on your own domain. No separate database service is needed.

Can I import my Google Sheets budget into Ocular?

Upstream says you can import data from a Google Sheets annual planner and export your data as JSON. The template changes nothing there, so you run the import inside Ocular after your first sign-in. Check the upstream docs for the sheet format first.

Does Ocular sync with my bank?

No. Upstream embeds its own database and this template adds no bank syncing, so you enter or import your figures yourself. Actual Budget, which has its own OneClick page here, offers optional bank-import integrations instead.

Actual Budget hosting

Can other people register on my Ocular server?

No. There is no public registration; an administrator creates users inside Ocular, and every page and API call requires a login. Failed logins are rate limited with growing lockouts, and the login cookie is Secure and SameSite=Strict.

How do I back up Ocular?

Back up the ocular_data volume, which holds the embedded database for every user and their budget data. Nothing schedules the copy, so run it yourself, and you can also export your own data as JSON from inside the app.

Backups in xCloud

How do I upgrade Ocular?

You stay on Ocular v2.4.1 until you adopt a newer template version. Copy ocular_data first, because the embedded database holds every user's figures, and read upstream's release notes. Redeploying keeps the volume; nothing upgrades the app on its own.

How do I sign in the first time?

Use the administrator username you chose at install and the generated password from the protected installation credentials, over HTTPS. The account is seeded once, so later environment edits do not change it; change passwords inside Ocular.

Are there limits on stored data?

By default each user can store 2 data entries of up to 512 KB each, which is plenty for budget figures. The limits are adjustable in the environment file: uncomment the setting, then Save & Redeploy.

Edit environment variables and redeploy

Is there an Ocular cloud service I can use?

This page is your own Ocular cloud: a dedicated Cloud VPS running the open-source app with your budget data on a volume you control. It is a private instance rather than a shared service, so you decide who gets an account.

Can I cancel anytime?

Yes. There is no lock-in — cancel any time. Hosting is billed monthly and charged for what you actually use, so when you delete the server the unused balance is refunded to your account, less up to 10% in payment-processing fees.