Maybe is pivoting to B2B financial forecasting and scenario planning and as a company, will no longer be actively maintaining this repository. What this means:
- This final release is a working, “as-is” version of the software
- As a company, we will be turning 100% of our focus to the pivot, and therefore, will not be actively maintaining / accepting contributions to this repository
It had a nice UI, but it never really felt finished. There are a few other more popular financial trackers out there, which one do you use?
Personal finance software is tough. It’s costly to develop, even with a very limited feature set. Automatic transaction downloads are a must if you want widespread adoption and that has its own set of complications.
I still use Quicken – which doesn’t get anyone excited since it’s still a Windows (and Mac) desktop app built on an ancient codebase – but I’m a power user and have yet to find an adequate replacement. It’s not sexy but it does the job. I’m more the exception than the rule. The average user probably doesn’t need or care about the same features that I do.
Oddly enough, one of its redeeming qualities is that it runs quite well on Linux through Wine.
Not sure it is the same kind of thing, but I’ve been using Homebank ever since the various personal financial management applications pulled out of the UK market.
I’m not convinced it’s possible to make a Free Software finance tracker with the feature that matters – synchronizing with your bank accounts – because banks (at least in the US) don’t seem to be interested in letting you connect to their API unless you’re an 800 lb gorilla, like Intuit, or at least a for-profit middleman willing to constantly jump through hoops, like Plaid.
in Europe all banks are obligated to provide psd2
Actual Budget is an amazing piece of software.
There are some really annoying “features” though that they refuse to fix, like being able to mutate transactions that come from a bank connection.
I use Firefly III for personal finance
The overall trend of these personal finance apps to online subscription-only models over the years has been unfortunate, though as others have mentioned it is somewhat understandable. For what it’s worth, my app of choice is still You Need a Budget (YNAB) v4, which was the last version they released that was just a desktop app.
It’s no longer available to buy on Steam (or download anywhere) but given the hours I’ve apparently clocked using that app the devs will have to pry it from my cold, dead hands before I use anything else…
Maybe not.
Are they making this open source?
Yeah, and on the soon-to-be-closed discord the creator has mentioned Sure https://github.com/we-promise/sure as the most active fork at the moment.
