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HomeBank mentions (9)

• I CANT FIND A BUDGET SYSTEM I CAN STICK TO...

  Another app that works pretty well is the free one called HomeBank available at: http://homebank.free.fr/ It only works on desktop or laptop computers - Windows, Mac, and Linux. Source: 11 months ago

• Windows Software for Logging Expenses/Income

  I tried to download and try Homebank (http://homebank.free.fr/) but Microsoft Defender SmartScreen through a fit due to "unknown publisher" and in virustotal the installer was flagged by 3 vendors (Bkav Pro, Gridinsoft (no cloud),Elastic) Probably false positives as it seems to be open source, but not sure if I want to risk it. Source: 11 months ago

• Gnucash – open-source accounting software for personal and small businesses

  I use HomeBank [1] because I find the UI a lot simpler than GnuCash and importing mostly just works, with pretty good automatic category assignment that lets you use regular expressions. The only quirk is that one of my accounts uses a non-standard ordering for its csv file which needs fixing before HomeBank will accept it since the import UI is limited. I also find that it is useful to track the database file... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• GnuCash

  I used to use HomeBank (http://homebank.free.fr), now just a LibreOffice spreadsheet. I think for personal finances, it's perfectly fine to just record monthly total expenses as a bulk sum, for each account. Unless 'something's off' (i.e. My family has spent too little or too much) it's okay to not know all the expense items. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Actual is going open-source

  What is a good desktop-first budgeting application? I've been using Homebank[1] for a few years now but I'm open to suggestions. [1]: http://homebank.free.fr/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

Lunch Money mentions (43)

• Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?

  > A while back there was a tread in here where someone had an inexpensive one-time license mac software, but I cannot find it. I think you are looking for https://www.banktivity.com/ It feels a lot like Quicken which isn't a paradigm that works well for my brain and I moved to https://lunchmoney.app + a small app that consumes the API, does some transformations and exposes to Google Sheets' =IMPORTDATA formula.... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Ask HN: Alternative to Mint.com?

  In past Ask HN threads I've seen recommendations for Lunch Money (https://lunchmoney.app/) and You Need A Budget (https://www.ynab.com/). I can't personally speak to them as I use GnuCash, but I don't recommend it for you because it does not do automatic sync as you requested. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel

  I would suggest something like [LunchMoney](https://lunchmoney.app/) instead. Built in budgeting, rules to classify payments, and recurring subscriptions are automatically found and called out. I had a bunch of issues with Personal Capital connections continuously messing up and there's no way to classify and evaluate the purchases. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Ask HN: How do you manage your finances?

  Lunch Money is a beautiful little independent app for personal finances: https://lunchmoney.app/ Won't do lots of complex stuff like investment strategy and estate planning, but covers all the essentials for a personal / family budget. Gives you a good overview of your spending, net worth over time, and lots of charts and querying functionality. Made a big difference for me. Before I was spread across a bunch of... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• I use the Trends - Net Worth feature more than anything. Anyone know which other app is identical?

  Have you looked at Lunch Money? Specifically with their Trends and Analyze sections? Source: 5 months ago