Actual Budget Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Tell HN: YNAB will partly remove direct bank imports

  I use Actual budget. It’s open source, free, but you’ll have to figure out hosting. Bank sync is currently provided in North America by SimpleFin ($15/year) And in Europe by GoCardless I host mine in a Docker container on my NAS. [1] https://actualbudget.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Budgeting App

  If you are tech-savvy then maybe https://actualbudget.com/ - similar to YNAB, but free & open-source. Source: 5 months ago

• Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)

  Looks visually quite similar to https://actualbudget.com/ (open-source, local-first). Did one influence the other? Are they both inspired by some other budget software? - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Family finance meetings with spouse?

  I use https://actualbudget.com/ locally. You have to import your transactions yourself and it's all local. Source: 10 months ago

• What's your strategy for organizing money in your bank accounts?

  If you have the ability to selfhost, Actual budget has been my go to for budgeting. I just input bank transactions usually weekly and assign the transaction to it's appropriate category. Source: 11 months ago

• Personal finance app

  Of course! It's odd that it proved so difficult to find. Here it is. Source: about 1 year ago

• I like YNAB, what's the best free alternative?

  I used to use YNAB4, then moved to Actual about a year ago. Source: about 1 year ago

• OpenBudget - an open-source YNAB-clone

  I known another one: Actual Budget. You can even start it with a one-click installer on PikaPods for ~1USD/month. But I had 2 problems with it:. Source: about 1 year ago

• Which Budgeting App do you use? (2023 Update)

  I want to point you to Actual Budget: https://actualbudget.com/. Source: about 1 year ago

• How much are you all saving?

  I use a selfhosted version of https://www.firefly-iii.org/. Can also recommend https://actualbudget.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What's on Your Home Server?

  I have a gist for this! # Personal - https://matrix.org (comms) - https://nextcloud.com (general) - https://jellyfin.org (video) - https://mopidy.com (audio) - https://photoprism.app (photos) - https://actualbudget.com (finance) - http://tileserver.org (maps) # Business - https://gitea.io (repos) - https://discourse.org (forums) - https://bestpractical.com/request-tracker (tickets). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Privacy budgeting apps?

  I’ve been meaning to set up Actual for a bit now - looks pretty damn good imo. They’ve gone open source a bit back —> https://github.com/actualbudget/actual. Source: over 1 year ago

• Which is your preferred spending tracker and why?

  I use Actual to keep track of my budget https://actualbudget.com/. Source: over 1 year ago

• Looking for recommendations on software that tracks personal expenses

  I use Actual Budget which is almost identical in principle to YNAB, and it recently went open source. For any moderately techy people, this is a good free alternative. Only thing is it doesn’t link to your bank accounts so you have to do everything manually (which I prefer personally). Source: over 1 year ago

• YNAB alternative

  I haven’t tried it, but heard of someone moving from YNAB to this app: https://actualbudget.com/. The cost is much lower, and it’s in active development. Source: over 1 year ago

• I can’t afford YNAB as my currency is getting weaker and weaker

  I have also been looking at replacements for YNAB since cancelling after they increased prices. I recently came across Actual Budget (https://actualbudget.com/) and have set it up to run in a docker container on my home server. It's fantastic! It has all of the features I used from YNAB and is free and open sourced. Source: over 1 year ago

• Finally launched my drag-and-drop budgeting app!

  I'm sorry you see it that way. JustBudget definitely does not have all the features that YNAB has, nor do I think it ever will. It does have a core set of budgeting features that YNAB has, just like other envelope-style budgeting apps like Buckets, Aspire, Actual, Centsible, and Lunch Money for example. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? ( 2022 Edition)

  Personally, at least among the apps I have used, no, I don't think any parts of existing apps are done well. I think there are a lot of existing applications which /do/ a lot, Mint, YNAB, EveryDollar, etc., etc. But the core budgeting/transaction aspect of them is always just the same thing, and instead of fleshing that particular aspect out, they branch out into investment management, credit building, loan/credit... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• FOSS finance tracker/money management app for Android?

  Since I forgot to link Actual Budget in the first comment: this is their Website and the GitHub page. Source: over 1 year ago

• YNAB in Google Sheets! (For yearly budgeting)

  I went poking around on GitHub and found this: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual Which links to Https://actualbudget.com/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• self-hosted actual budget - Apps don't work

  I self-hosted an actual instance on my server; though the server version runs excellent, there is no option to configure the self-hosted instance with the downloads available here: actualbudget.com. Source: almost 2 years ago