and plain text accounting in general
They leave you with lots of options though, which could be a problem if you're starting into accounting
I somehow fell out of the habit but I really need to get back to it.
Things Gnucash does.
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.
Would be nice/interesting to see something like that come about, but It's a bit frustrating. A delegated read-only api key against a specific account shouldn't be that hard to do.
Ugh. Just write your own damn post already
tinosar•1h ago
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.
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coldpie•1h ago
> It's also the work of one accountant who happens to be the daily user, built with a lot of AI assistance.
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goodmythical•1h ago
I've been using hledger and I usually just plug in purchases as I make them, but I do that on purpose because it's like a self-balancing checkbook so I'm always aware of what's going where.