GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app

tinosar

Author here. I'm a certified accountant. I ran my own finances in a double-entry Excel/VBA system for years because the off-the-shelf options forced a choice I didn't like: GnuCash (correct, but heavy enough that even I dreaded the daily entry) or the app-store budgeting apps (pleasant, single-entry, cloud-hosted, usually wanting a bank login). So I built a local-first double-entry desktop app — a plain local database file on your own machine, no telemetry, no aggregator. Happy to talk about the local-first trade-offs (no auto bank sync is the price), or why I went one-time-purchase instead of subscription. Not here to pitch — genuinely interested in how others in this crowd handle their own books.

yehoshuapw

See also https://hledger.org/ and plain text accounting in general

black6

> Accounts you can create inline as you go. Scheduled and automatic movements that just happen. Things Gnucash does.

throwaway_7274

LLM-written drivel. Painful to read, and (weak) evidence that the project is equally sloppy. The “author” evidently does not respect their readers.

huijzer

Is there use for this for individuals? Or is this like advanced note taking apps: you feel productive but are just busy talking about the things you need to do instead of doing the things you need to do

dgrin91

Honestly my biggest pain point with all personal accounting systems was that there was no easy, free way to automatically pull my transaction data from all my accounts into a single, local file that I can play with as I want. I really don't want to go to all my accounts every month and click download. There still isn't, but I did recently find simplefin( https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/ ). Its not great (e.g. quota of only ~25 requests per day), but its good enough and the price was cheap enough that I just bit the bullet. It also paired well with Actual budget, and now I have a personal accounting system that I am reasonably happy with. I also found teller.io, which is frankly a better dev experience (and good free tier!), but they don't support all the banks I'm on and somehow simplefin does.

lostdog

"a real balance sheet, assets against liabilities, not a spending feed dressed up with colours" Ugh. Just write your own damn post already

tga

If you continue developing this, I recommend completely scrapping the UI and finding a person or AI who can create something usable. What you're showing there is really that bad -- if you consider it acceptable, and expect to be able to sell it, then you really need to partner up with someone who knows what they're doing.

tobadzistsini

Just Windows or will there be GNU/Linux?

notme43

Also take a look at Firefly for another self hosted alternative. Good middle ground between flexibility and ease of use. https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/