• @asap
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    Why not Actual Budget, which is also self-hosted, open-source bucket budgeting based off YNAB, however it appears to be a lot more mature.

    They also transparently run the project on Open Collective which I like: https://opencollective.com/actual

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe
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      This is exactly the thing I’ve been looking for. It saves everything as a sqlite db, and has csv export options. So you’re not fucked over if you need to switch to something else. It’s compatible for linux/windows.

      And the import options seem pretty good too.

      Congrats, you’ve made me spend the whole day switching everything over to that lol.

      The only real issue is that one of my banks deals with more than one type of currency. So I’ve had to write a custom script to handle that. But all in all, this is a massive upgrade for me. Thank you for this recommendation.

    • @bungle_in_the_jungle
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      Ooh, this looks great… thanks for sharing! Maybe it will finally rip my excel spreadsheets from out of my hands 😂

      • @asap
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        415 days ago

        Net worth and investment tracking goes in my spreadsheets, budgeting in Actual Budget.

    • @[email protected]
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      It’s good to have other options. I wish the best to the project. I started using Actual yesterday. It’s amazing . It feels good not having to forcibly pay and have a good product community driven.

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      I’m guessing because this one is open. There are very few self hosted budgeting tools, and a lot of desktop ones. If I’m going through the trouble of self hosting one, it better be open source. I don’t want to get stuck with all my financial data in an app I don’t want to pay anymore or worse, goes out of business.

      If the open self hosted app doesn’t suit me, there’s GnuCash. A bit of a learning curve and less sexy, but it’s solid and got my finances stable through college.

      • @asap
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        You’re replying to my comment about Actual Budget, the very open source budgeting solution?

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              I highlighted two links in the image and you asked me to click either of those. In no point in your linked message you said you edited your original message. I’m done with you, you can’t operate under honest discourse.

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                You jumped to a conclusion on pricing and made a mistake, it’s ok, no big deal.

        • @[email protected]
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          I did look in the link you provided earlier and all I saw was pricing and features. Nothing wrong with an open project selling services, of course. But can you really blame me?

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            all I saw was pricing […] can you really blame me?

            I mean I really can. They don’t have any paid option so you definitely didn’t see any pricing. They only have a big open source message:

            • @[email protected]
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              I don’t know where you got that, but this is what I get clicking that first link you posted:

              • @ChogChog
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                Actualbudget.com =/= actualbudget.org

                Originally the project was a closed source budgeting app to compete against YNAB on privacy and cost but the developer got overwhelmed and decided to open source the project.

                I can’t remember all the details why the project doesn’t have access to the .com domain still, but you can use the .org site to see the details/source code. (You can also see the .com address hasn’t been updated, and still has the original 2020 copyright date)

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                Try clicking either of those links.

                Regardless, this is a thread about self-hosted open-source budgeting, which is why I linked to Actual Budget. I have updated the first post to be the Github link instead to prevent confusion.

      • @[email protected]
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        While it used to be closed source the maintainer a couple years back decided to not make it a job, and open sourced, took down the hosted option, and nowaintains it as a side project open sourced.

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    I’ll check it out! I have been using Firefly III.

    I think it’s good there are several projects that try to solve similar problems. It makes for such a diverse solution pool.

  • @recklessengagement
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    Oh, I need this thread. I’ve been all over the place ever since Mint shut down.

  • @[email protected]
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    Not nearly good enough to make me give up Quicken but it is nice to see some more self hosted options popping up.

  • Ricky Rigatoni
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    Why self host a web app that could have easily just been a regular progam.

    • @finestnothing
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      Control over your own data (if you mean regular program as cloud apps), or accessible on multiple devices and to different users if you mean an offline computer app

      • Ricky Rigatoni
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        Different devices can be done with any program by putting the files on network storage.

        • @finestnothing
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          Well yeah, assuming you can install it on all devices you would want to use, and that it lets you use network storage, and that the app doesn’t conflict with other apps using the same network storage. A lot of apps don’t have a specific app for Android, Apple, Linux, macos, and windows because that’s a lot to build and maintain. A deployed webapp works on any device with a browser, and you don’t need to configure every device to use the same networked storage.