I’ve been trying to get my finances in order for a while. I’ve been looking up different software to help me budget, but I can’t find privacy respecting software besides Firefly III, which is self hosted. I usually try to find a few options then evaluate from there, but was wondering if you guys had any recommendations to throw in the mix!

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Thirding Actual, I will admit I was using Mint for way longer than I should have for convenience, and moved to Actual after Mint shut down. If you only have a few accounts, it’s not that terrible to download transactions as QFX files and import them once a month when paying the bills. I haven’t tried SimpleFin or anything automated, but that would get you even closer to the experience of Mint.

    • kibiz0r@midwest.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Another vote for Actual.

      Mint was amazing, and that’s probably why it died. Credit Karma gives you basically no useful tools for getting a handle on things. And then they advertise services that are like “hey are you bad at your money? give us some of it and we’ll help you!”

    • TheMadCodger@piefed.socialEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Fourthing Actual. I download OFX files from my credit card and bank and import them and it’s all pretty easy. Never tried paying for the banksync option.

      • Thirstily1792@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        Fifthing Actual - I’ve been using it for a year now. I started with manual imports and then slowly added accounts to SimpleFin for syncing. Now all of my accounts are syncing with SimpleFin and it works great.