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Would you use an open source personal finance app?

BekahHW on February 27, 2024

Today is day 27 of my 29 Days of Open Source Alternatives series, where I'll be exploring open source alternatives to proprietary software in the c...
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Jess Lee

Wow! I had no idea that Mint shut down. I think an open source finance app is a great idea and would totally try it.

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BekahHW

I think we learned the hard way 😭

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Greg Chabala

Mint was a slick frontend on top of Yodlee, which handled all the hard parts like integrating with 1000s of banks and other investment companies. Guess what, you can just use Yodlee directly. Still free. money.yodlee.com/

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Renan

I like the plaintextaccounting.org/ approach...I do prefer open source apps but beyond that I'd like to be able to have my data free to be used across many apps as needed

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BekahHW

Interesting! I’ve never heard of that.

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Maverick D. Aece

For Android, Ivy Wallet is the best I've seen so far.
github.com/Ivy-Apps/ivy-wallet