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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

#31

How does it compare to YNAB?

looking forward to moving away from YNAB. it became too expensive for what it offers (note: i can't use auto-sync) . On the other side, i've 3+ years of data and various script to overcome problems such us import from csv, auto-split categories etc. Thus, if someone find an easy-to-use alternative that has budget and bookkeeping that would be great.

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

#32

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

Multi currency is the one thing every app I try keeps getting wrong. It's not about calling an API for conversion rates, it's about tracking each thing at its currency and being able to convert at price/at cost. I'm hacking together my own scripts on top of beancount at the moment but I'd love an actual double entry accounting app that can handle multiple currencies (and auto import from my European bank account ideally)

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

#33

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

Does actual support tracking assets in different currencies and split transactions? I'm hacking together a tool for myself that fits my needs, but I'd really be in the market for something that could replace gnucash or beancount for me

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

#34

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

Multi currency is the one thing every app I try keeps getting wrong. It's not about calling an API for conversion rates, it's about tracking each thing at its currency and being able to convert at price/at cost. I'm hacking together my own scripts on top of beancount at the moment but I'd love an actual double entry accounting app that can handle multiple currencies (and auto import from my European bank account idea…

The UI is definitely not as polished as the other alternatives listed, but I made my own because at the time Firefly was not exactly right for me - https://github.com/VMelnalksnis/Gnomeshade. It can automatically import transactions using Nordigen, or you can upload a file exported from your bank if you don't want to use a third party service. It also supports multi currency transactions, and sharing accounts between multiple users.

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

#35

This vs hledger? /asking for a friend who used msmoney back in the day

After a day of trying to get it to work at all (tried through both the docker thing and the non-docker thing) and finally getting it to work. Then, the nexy time I try to start it, shit being broken again, I rage quitted and switched to hledger. I'm sure it is easy if you are in the webdev/devops world though.

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

#37

This looks like exactly the kind of thing I've been searching for! Curious about testimonials if anyone's used it

I've been using Firefly-III for over three years now. What I'm contemplating to write is a quick util which would auto-import transactions from my emails.

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

#38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multi currency is the one thing every app I try keeps getting wrong. It's not about calling an API for conversion rates, it's about tracking each thing at its currency and being able to convert at price/at cost. I'm hacking together my own scripts on top of beancount at the moment but I'd love an actual double entry accounting app that can handle multiple currencies (and auto import from my European bank account idea…

The UI is definitely not as polished as the other alternatives listed, but I made my own because at the time Firefly was not exactly right for me - https://github.com/VMelnalksnis/Gnomeshade . It can automatically import transactions using Nordigen, or you can upload a file exported from your bank if you don't want to use a third party service. It also supports multi currency transactions, and sharing accounts betwee…

Sharing accounts between multiple users is something i've been missing in many of the existing solutions. Thanks, ill check it out!

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

#39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Multi currency is the one thing every app I try keeps getting wrong. It's not about calling an API for conversion rates, it's about tracking each thing at its currency and being able to convert at price/at cost. I'm hacking together my own scripts on top of beancount at the moment but I'd love an actual double entry accounting app that can handle multiple currencies (and auto import from my European bank account idea…

The UI is definitely not as polished as the other alternatives listed, but I made my own because at the time Firefly was not exactly right for me - https://github.com/VMelnalksnis/Gnomeshade . It can automatically import transactions using Nordigen, or you can upload a file exported from your bank if you don't want to use a third party service. It also supports multi currency transactions, and sharing accounts betwee…

Huh, that is interesting, I'll have a look. Nordigen is what I was going to use for my scripts as well

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

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post #35

This vs hledger? /asking for a friend who used msmoney back in the day

After a day of trying to get it to work at all (tried through both the docker thing and the non-docker thing) and finally getting it to work. Then, the nexy time I try to start it, shit being broken again, I rage quitted and switched to hledger. I'm sure it is easy if you are in the webdev/devops world though.

What happened, exactly? The docker compose file and the associated files should work out of the box.
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