GnuCash Reviews and Details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Intuits Mint is garbage this year, need other recs for tracking expenses.

  Https://gnucash.org/ is a pretty solid free and open source option. The catch being its UI probably isn't as refined as some other options, and I'm not sure how/if online banking connections work, so can be a bit manual. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Spending tracking app that meets my needs

  Could checkout https://gnucash.org/. Probably not as nice as a UI as some other options, but its quite robust in terms of tracking your finances. It has a budgeting feature, but I never used it. Worst case could use another app just for budgeting and GnuCash for general tracking of the current state of your accounts, and generating reports and such. Source: about 2 years ago

• Are the GnuCash team all dead?

  As of today (2/22/2023), gnucash.org seems to be up and running. Do the young folks still use "woot" as an exclamation of delight or is that already passe??😄. Source: over 2 years ago

• Are the GnuCash team all dead?

  I guess PART of my concern is that when you have a blank screen at gnucash.org for too long, it APPEARS to the outside world... People who might wish to consider using and supporting gnucash... that there is a problem that the organization is unable to handle and therefore the question arises "Are the team at gnucash competent or incompetent"? Source: over 2 years ago

• Are the GnuCash team all dead?

  I am a fan of Open Source projects and I've known about GnuCash for some time. I've started an online personal finance course that uses GnuCash, HOWEVER, the gnucash.org site seems to have been down for days or weeks lately. What's up. I thought the pandemic was over and the 'ronavirus was going into obscurity... Am I wrong? Did the team all die off? Are they not taking this seriously? OR... Is there actually... Source: over 2 years ago

• The Steam Deck Sold me on Linux

  There's also GnuCash. According to Wikipedia, Microsoft Money seems to be dead, so finding a replacement would be appropriate also because of that. Source: over 2 years ago

• Does anyone have recommendations for personal accounting software? (NOT moneyspire please)

  I can recommend https://gnucash.org/ if you're happy to manually import your accounts. It is comprehensive, powerful, and incredibly useful. Source: over 2 years ago

• Budgeting App/ Program

  GnuCash, free and opensource software that you run on your computer Https://gnucash.org/ exactly for manual entry, has graphs, can track investments, etc. Not the prettiest one, but gets things done. Source: over 2 years ago

• Quickbooks Elder Abuse

  (1) gnucash.org (free) - I haven't used it. I would like to use it but it doesn't appear to support organizations with multiple classes (QB terminology) or divisions (manager.io terminology). Source: over 2 years ago

• Privacy budgeting apps?

  You can check out plain text accounting using ledger, hledger or beancount. Or alternatively GNU cash . Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: A bookkeeping app worthy of coders?

  GnuCash is free, open source, and will do whatever you need. There are a gazillion other options, free and paid; it's already a "red ocean," so I wouldn't advise jumping into it with your own somehow-better software. https://gnucash.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Any privacy oriented budgeting apps?

  Do you want an online or offline solution? In the latter case you could take a look at GnuCash which is an open source app. Source: over 2 years ago

• What is the best, most trustworthy, free (or very inexpensive) budget managing app for personal finance use? Please help 🙃

  I haven't gotten too far into it, but GNUcash looks pretty powerful, and it's been around for a while. It's available for Linux, Windows, and iOS. Source: over 2 years ago

• Is there a fully free app for Budgeting? (I prefer adding transactions manually rather than connecting my account to an app)

  I've never used it myself, but I've seen GnuCash recommended. Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do you manage your household cashflow?

  I use gnucash https://gnucash.org/ plus some custom scripts to convert the different bank statements to a common format that gnucash can import. This takes care of the not having to manually enter data. For cash I send a message with the amount and category to an email address I set up for this. This transaction gets parsed out and saved in a flat file that also gets imported. Reconciling I do by hand but because... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Any self hosted alternative to YNAB other than Firefly?

  Check out GnuCash. It's incredibly powerful, but you can make it pretty simple. There's no direct bank integration, but I found it's rather quick to enter a bunch of transactions from a bank statement. You can also pull down CSVs from most banks and make You can start off entering say a month's worth of transactions to get the feel for it, and then later move towards scripted or CSV imports. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Accounting software suggestions

  You make take a look at GnuCash. It has a learning curve, but it's stable and well-supported. Source: about 3 years ago

• Software for personal finance management.

  I also vote for YNAB. Currently not self-hosted, though it started out as a standalone application. It has been great. I think they charge $85/yr. Beyond that I could suggest GNUCash. Way back in the day I used Microsoft Money. I bet you could run that in a VM or in wine on Linux. Source: about 3 years ago

• quicken renewal nag popups, banners, and sidebars

  So we let our subscription expire because they said we could continue using the product with some limitations, e.g. Downloads and such wouldn't work. We only use the offline features, so no bigs, right? But now there are two renewal nag popups on launch, a banner across the whole app, and a sidebar on the registers. WTF!!! Quicken is going to lose a (very long time) customer permanently over this terrible... Source: over 3 years ago

• Is there a free downloadable Bookkeeping app similar to quickbooks?

  GnuCash is an excellent and free open source accounting program that runs on Linux, Windows, and MacOS. GnuCash is a full-fledged double-entry accounting system that has been around for 24 years and has included small business accounting for 21 years. Source: over 3 years ago

• How easy is it to run a LTD Co without an accountant?

  We hold the accounts on a PC using GnuCash and use the HMRC online system to post accounts to Companies House and corporation tax return to HMRC in one hit. Source: over 3 years ago