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While exploring some other self hosted/OSS personal finance tools, found https://github.com/actualbudget/actual https://github.com/actualbudget/actual to be a p
by mr-karan 3y ago
While exploring some other self hosted/OSS personal finance tools, found https://github.com/actualbudget/actual https://github.com/actualbudget/actual to be a promising project too.
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y agoI've been using this as a replacement for YNAB and I don't miss anything. After evaluating Firefly for six months, I would say its setup isn't easy.
- shric 3y agoHow easy is it to move data from YNAB to this? i.e. transactions, categories and accounts?
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y agoI just start fresh from start.
- mdhowle 3y agoIt seems straightforward: https://actualbudget.com/docs/overview/migrating-from-other-apps/ https://actualbudget.com/docs/overview/migrating-from-other-...
- crashabr 3y agoWhy did you stop using YNAB?
- BOOSTERHIDROGEN 3y agoWould like to complement beancount.
- leononame 3y agoDoes actual support tracking assets in different currencies and split transactions? I'm hacking together a tool for myself that fits my needs, but I'd really be in the market for something that could replace gnucash or beancount for me
- ylyn 3y agoLast I checked it didn't even have a notion of currency, let alone multiple currencies.
- ylyn 3y agoYep. The Transaction type has just an amount field: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/blob/master/packages%2Floot-core%2Fsrc%2Ftypes%2Fmodels%2Ftransaction.d.ts https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/blob/master/packages%...
- cmbothwell 3y agoI am also hacking my own tool together for exactly this reason - multi-currency is one of those things that is absolutely essential if you need it, but is often ignored by a lot of these solutions. Check out this amazing article that helped me: https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.html#2.2 https://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/accounting/tutorial.ht...