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I am interested what do you use for tracking your expenses and other things like income, lending, investing, ...

All apps i tried don't have a lot of features or those features are buggy (or they at least seem so).

Have you found some app that does all that you want or do you use spreadsheets or some other solution?

(edit: typo and formatting)

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[–] toebert@piefed.social 1 points 10 hours ago

Sure, but I've only started recently so not sure how it'll hold up. I've managed to get my bank transactions in there and my investments as well, and for a brief period my crypto too. It all needs external integrations though (or you can do it by hand).

It does have tags and rules to automate some categorisation. There are a few people maintaining it but it obviously came with some tech debt too (it was originally developed by a company and called maybe, they open sourced it when they gave up on it).

[–] karokugel@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Kmymoney works fine for me.

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It depends.

Have you tried GNU Cash?

[–] RealBot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

I have installed it recently and am trying it out. There are a lot of things there so for now i probably just scratched the surface of it's capabilities. So i can't say definitely if it satisfies my needs.

But i have gained feeling that all programs i looked at dont have capability for something like tags. GNU Cash has account hierarchy (which i like) but i didnt find tags or equivalent.

Example use case for tags would be if i want to specify for expenses if they were "wants" or "needs".

And that is messy to try to do in hierarchy, because if i put it in root than both children will basicaly be duplicated (whole sub tree), and if i put it in leaves than i will have sub account for "wants" and "needs" in every leaf account.

[–] turtl@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

For expense tracking: Actual Budget For investments: Portfolio Performance, Ghostfolio

[–] grulfen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

I use Beancount All categorization is manual, but it is quite versatile. I like that it is just plain text.

For visualization there is Fava

[–] lasta@piefed.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For a while I was tracking my expenses in a LibreOffice Calc sheet since they are not complex, but I heard positive things about these two from other users:

https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago

I've tried these as well, the software is good. My only issue is it's very manual and the ways to automate importing transaction information i found complicated. That was a little while back now though.

Importing csv files from my bank accounts also required a bit more effort than I wanted to spend to fix the data.

It's unfortunate, I use simplifi from quicken, but they jacked up their price a lot, so I let it cancel, they offered a "deal" to get another year for the old price, and that's going to end soon. But the importing of my transactions is automatic when I sign in, so I only need to check a few things and then I've got all the graphs and whatnot to see where I'm spending.

I'll probably let that cancel and try these again, or just not track spending like this.

[–] iByteABit@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I personally use Kitchenowl with my partner because you can share expenses between household members and set whatever percentages you want, and you can also create your recipes and shopping lists, so it's really handy for using with roommates etc.

[–] Matth@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

MyExpenses is what I use. Simple, allow for reconciliation with bank and to easily export if needed.