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With Mint being deprecated, I’ve been looking for something to replace it. I know there are a number of paid alternatives, but it seems like they all are missing at least one or two things that I liked about Mint. Is there an OSS option that comes close? Seems like the biggest hurdle is finding one that is close to reliable when authenticating with other sites (and able to adapt to changes they make, 2FA, etc.). I gu…
I wish I could get data about my transactions through an api from my bank
Yes, but idk where you are, in the EU we have this PSD2 rule or law, which adds 2FA to every action, not just transaction, making it impossible to automate and forcing you to use a 3rd party service, which costs about 30€ / month of you'd like to automate. Before PSD2, at least German banks had a free api one could automatically query. The EU claims it's done because of "security". Essentially corruption.
This looks like exactly the kind of thing I've been searching for! Curious about testimonials if anyone's used it
I self host it since Mint shutdown. It obviously doesnt have automatic integrations with financial institutions so you need to export/import manually or frankenstein your own automation. There are a lot of things it does that I dont use. I am mostly there for spending visualization. It does that well, but it takes a lot of clicks to setup categorization rules, but once its done things happen automatically. Its just a…
Why would that be obvious? Until I read your comment I was assuming it was there. That feels like it should be a core feature for basic personal finance applications.
The template from https://themeasureofaplan.com/budget-tracking-tool/ has everything I need and a perfect level of flexibility to customize it for your needs.
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...
I have been using the self-hosted ActualBudget for ~6 months and found it mostly perfect. The mobile version of the site is not complete but it's at least usable for managing transactions. The only drawback is no user accounts, but you can have multiple budgets. I was originally on YNAB4, and then financier.io for ~2 years.
With Mint being deprecated, I’ve been looking for something to replace it. I know there are a number of paid alternatives, but it seems like they all are missing at least one or two things that I liked about Mint. Is there an OSS option that comes close? Seems like the biggest hurdle is finding one that is close to reliable when authenticating with other sites (and able to adapt to changes they make, 2FA, etc.). I gu…
It's a simple daily budgeting app I put together for my wife and I to help us be more cognizant of our daily spending. Upvotes count as interest.
I am already using GNUCash. How does this compare?
Still a lot of depth to Firefly and has its own learning curve.
Its also written in PHP using Laravel which can be appealing.
What's with people building open source finance managers? This is like the 1000th one I have seen.
Along with note taking and todo apps, it's low hanging fruit. It's a problem most people / developers can understand without having to do a lot of studying, and it fits in people's heads. But it's also often an example of people not willing to learn a new tool, or not willing to pay for one, so why not build a new one? How hard can it be?
The number of stupidly huge complex projects I got myself roped into with that dumb phrase...
I wish I could get data about my transactions through an api from my bank
I'm not just talking about this particular one, just in general on the idea of replacing SaaS (like Mint) with self-hosted. What is self-hosting buying here? If it's installed on the local, it's a waste of resources and development time, if it's hosted on a third party hoster we're back to somebody holding user's data.
Is this simply because people are so used to building Web apps that they use them everywhere?
(Yes you can file it under "old man yelling a the sky" category, I'm still on Quicken 2016 personally :) )