Actual Budget Reviews

Social recommendations and mentions

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

  I want to point you to Actual Budget: https://actualbudget.com/. - Source: Reddit / 9 days 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: Reddit / 17 days 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 / about 1 month 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: Reddit / 3 months ago

• Which is your preferred spending tracker and why?

  I use Actual to keep track of my budget https://actualbudget.com/. - Source: Reddit / 3 months 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: Reddit / 3 months 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: Reddit / 4 months 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: Reddit / 4 months 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: Reddit / 4 months 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 / 5 months ago