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You have a free budgeting app for Mac? Can you have as an app so I can download it in my iPhone? Can Pulse Local connect to my bank app and automatically records my spendings?

Also am curious about your reasoning behind usage of Qwen3.0 model as well!

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Hi, only a Mac app today, working on a Windows app next. As for bank connections, yes this was requested and I added a "Connected Mode" ($29 a year Sync Pass) which syncs US banks via Plaid otherwise you can import a CSV which also works with any bank and any currency. As for Qwen3, 0.6B is small enough to run fast on most laptops, showed good evals and easily tunable. In my tests, the tuned 0.6B model scored about level with gpt-4.1-mini on a dataset of 77 real budgeting questions and outperformed a stock 8B model as well.

Ive got a similar story but with slightly harsher constraints. I also want to build private AI app but for the phone. As you know they have very little RAM per app and I needed to somehow circumvent it. So I picked qwen2.5-0.5B as it was good for the purpose of answering people and keeping the dialog and no overkill + whisper model to add stt feature (437 MB for both). I think that if your app does only one job, you can use smaller model and fine tune it a bit

Agree, a small tuned model, in my case a 0.6B Qwen, beat a bigger general model: stock 8B Qwen.

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