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Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

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Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

#21
Looks good! However, if you need multi-currency support, I'd recommend checking out HomeBank.

Multi-currency is one of those weird things, where if you actually need it your options are much more limited, but it also feels weird to keep asking financial software developers to keep implement a niche-ish feature. Anyway, it's good to have options.

https://www.gethomebank.org/en/index.php

Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

#23

Looks good! However, if you need multi-currency support, I'd recommend checking out HomeBank. Multi-currency is one of those weird things, where if you actually need it your options are much more limited, but it also feels weird to keep asking financial software developers to keep implement a niche-ish feature. Anyway, it's good to have options. https://www.gethomebank.org/en/index.php

Firefly III is 100% multi-currency. Even budgets, bills, anything.

Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

#24
post #7

The author has a weird take on zero based budgeting [0]. To me it seems like a distinction without a difference. I never did try Firefly because at first it wasn't very mature and then later I found Actual Budget, which is (or at least was) perfect. (I haven't transitioned to the open source version yet, so I'm not sure if they broke it.) [0] https://docs.firefly-iii.org/explanation/firefly-iii/backgro...

The difference isn't very big, but I honestly (I wrote that page) believe that the difference is worth pointing out.

Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

#26

The founder of Maybe[0] oss’d it recently and they’re working towards making it easy to self host. Seems like it could end up being a fairly modern SaaS level open core alternative. 0 - https://github.com/maybe-finance/maybe

I think the same thing happened to 'actual.'

Re: Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager

#30

While exploring some other self hosted/OSS personal finance tools, found https://github.com/actualbudget/actual to be a promising project too.

I've been using this as a replacement for YNAB and I don't miss anything. After evaluating Firefly for six months, I would say its setup isn't easy.
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