cross-posted from: https://eviltoast.org/post/14412290

I’ve been really lazy with keeping track of my money over the last few years. I still use personal capital (now empower)'s dashboard, but it’s not self-hosted and they can be pretty aggressive with their marketing.

Previously, I was using Beancount + Fava to track all of my money, including investments. Every time I think about updating my ledger and importing the last several years of transactions, it just feels overwhelming and I put it off again.

I’m still a fan of plain-text-accounting, but importing a large number of transactions always feels cumbersome.

I tried Firefly-III briefly, but it didn’t support investment tracking. I also saw Ghostfolio for the investment side, but haven’t tried it yet and it seems to only do investments.

My wishlist of features is below, are there any self-hosted/oss finance apps that would meet most of these?

  • self-hosted
  • import via csv at minimum, ideally support for yodly/plaid/some other bank syncing api
  • support for regular accounts (checking/savings), credit cards, and investment accounts (stocks, 401k, etc)
  • misc. asset tracking like for a car or house
  • mobile app or mobile-friendly web view
  • local llm support for categorizing transactions and fixing merchant semi-automatically
  • multi-user support - not required, but it’d be nice if my partner and I can use the same app but still have our own private accounts too
  • tags or some other way to group expenses together (like all expenses related to a trip)
  • good reporting
  • bonus: support for custom reports/calculations like “If i retired next year, how much money would I have per month?”

Alternatively, what do you all use for this type of thing?

    • johntash@eviltoast.orgOP
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      14 hours ago

      I switched from ledger to beancount at some point. I don’t really remember what features beancount had over ledger anymore though.

      My plan is to try a few of the other suggestions here like Maybe, Actual, Ghostfolio, etc, and if I don’t end up liking them - just bite the bullet and make the effort to pick up beancount again. I’ll have to check out ledger vs beancount again though and see what the actual differences were again.

      • ouch@lemmy.world
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        23 hours ago

        I played around a bit with hledger, but ultimately did not see a reason to switch from ledger. I don’t remember if I ran into any issues, but at least they are not totally compatible.