NataCONNECT

NataCONNECT is a personal finance application built to run locally on hardware the user owns, bringing together four areas people usually manage through separate apps or spreadsheets. Shield protects payment cards through user defined rules across five categories, spending limits, time restrictions, seller verification, category blocks, and custom rules, and shows the reason behind every blocked or flagged transaction. It also includes Emergency Lock, which locks a device out of the wallet with a six digit passcode if lost or stolen, showing when the lock happened and which card is linked, and NataScan, which checks whether a website is trustworthy, based on domain age, HTTPS usage, and community reports. Practice is a trading simulator built around virtual accounts, each starting with a set amount of simulated money in euros or dollars, that users can trade across real market assets, backed by live market data showing current, highest, and lowest prices along with percentage change. Every closed trade updates a skill level from zero to one hundred, moving the user between beginner, intermediate, and advanced, along with a virtual balance, total trades, win rate, and achievements for larger profits. Guide is a financial assistant that answers questions about saving and investing in plain language, making clear it offers general information rather than advice and never carries out a transaction. It runs on models served through the Fireworks AI API on AMD hardware, and its answers connect back to Practice, letting a user test an idea with simulated money right after asking. Goals turns savings targets and spending limits into clear, adjustable numbers across categories such as rent, vacation, and emergency funds, with optional deadlines and a personal or shared family scope. Goals can also be marked Shield protected, so money set aside is covered by the same rules already running in Shield, with the app showing how much protected money is safeguarded.