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Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager by mdhowle on Thursday February 15, 2024 @11:44PM (#39393260)
I have been using the self-hosted ActualBudget for ~6 months and found it mostly perfect. The mobile version of the site is not complete but it's at least usable for managing transactions. The only drawback is no user accounts, but you can have multiple budgets.

I was originally on YNAB4, and then financier.io for ~2 years.

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Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager by igortg on Friday February 16, 2024 @05:19AM (#39395237)
I've being using YNAB4 for about 10yrs now. But I miss a mobile version to report daily expenses.

Do you see any major drawback comparing to YNAB4?

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Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager by mdhowle on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:57AM (#39397858)
I haven't encountered any major drawbacks. The reporting is a bit lacking. ActualBudget has simple Net Worth and Cash Flow charts.

Other than that, it has all the features of YNAB4 I can recall.

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Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager by funOtter on Friday February 16, 2024 @09:03AM (#39397131)
I also switched from YNAB4 to ActualBudget about 6 months ago. I'm hosting it on a Raspberry pi in my network. Overall it's working great!
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Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager by hiatus on Friday February 16, 2024 @10:11AM (#39398055)
How do you get transactions into ActualBudget? Do you run a manual import job at a set cadence?
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Re:Firefly III: A free and open source personal finance manager by mdhowle on Friday February 16, 2024 @12:56PM (#39400546)
There is some experimental work being done with SimpleFIN integration[1] for US banks but I can't comment on how well that works.

Personally, I add each transaction manually. It allows me to stay on top of my budget.

[1] https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/2272

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