Hi everyone!
I have been using Grisbi for at least 15 years now to get around personal finances/expense tracking.
It is a very basic tool that tracks expenses, clearances, etc… Nothing crazy but it helps a lot to follow your budget, keep things on track. Everything is backed up through a file that I sync with Nextcloud.
For some reasons, I won’t be able to use it as easily in the coming months (new restrictions on my work laptop) so I’m looking for a Web-based selfhost-friendly alternative. I’ve already narrowed it down to 3:
- Firefly III which looks pretty nice (and PHP is kind of a plus in my case)
- Actual Budget which looks pretty cool too
- Kresus much more barebone but might get the job done eventually
Do you have some feedback on any of those applications? Do you know any other alternatives worth looking at? Have you had the same kind of experience going from Gnucash/Grisbi/other to Web-based app?
FF3 is great, I have used it for years and I can’t complain
How do you get your data in? Do you use the third party import services plugin or set up scraping of your statements that needs you to pass the statements in explicitly? I’ve been wanting to get into using Firefly 3 but the question of how I should do the data import has been a hurdle that’s stopped me with indecision a few times.
Oh, I do it all manually since I find it harder to keep track when things happen automatically.
But I know it has all kinds plugins for importing transactions
Ah fair enough. Well done keeping on top of it - I know I’ll never be able to consistently do it manually so will dig into the other ways.
I am considering FF3 too for my home host setup.
I have looked at simpleFin, which is a third party that provides the ability to link bank, credit card, loan and investment accounts into FF3. It’s cheap so cost isn’t an issue.
Does anyone have direct experience using this with FF3? The idea of having a comprehensive dashboard of my whole financial situation is appealing.