[Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?

Mon Jan 3 00:04:14 UTC 2011

Thanks to StumbleUpon, I have three more options to add:

jGnash:
http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jgnash/index.php?title=Main_Page
grisby: http://www.grisbi.org/
GFP: http://gfd.sourceforge.net/

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 12:45 AM, Cameron Purvis <cameron.purvis at gmail.com>wrote:

> That's always been a little 'iffy' for my taste.   I played with it a while
> back and seemed to get odd random crashes.  It's likely Untuit is using some
> unsupported calls that aren't properly emulated.  It's a little scary that
> this might dead-end into a reproducible crash case, that blocks actual use.
>
> It either works or doesn't, eh?  ;)
>
> HomeBank is looking promising, though...
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu> wrote:
>
>> Have you tried to get Quicken running on Codeweavers? They have it listed
>> as "Silver" for Quicken 2010.
>> Allen B.
>>
>>
>>  *From*: Cameron Purvis [mailto:cameron.purvis at gmail.com]
>> *Sent*: Saturday, January 01, 2011 09:44 AM
>>
>> *To*: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org>
>> *Subject*: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
>>
>> Awesome suggestions, folks.  And anything that can be bundled with my
>> install, or trivially installed (I'm looking at you, Ubuntu app store) is
>> ideal.  Meta-work is a no-no.  :)
>>
>> My tactic is going to be running Quicken and HomeBank concurrently for
>> about a month, and will probably give Mint a chance.  We'll see which of
>> these options is less hassle and how skeevy mint feels with my logins ...
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Rick Williams <revrick56 at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I don't personally use financial software, but I also use Lighthouse
>>> Puppy OS. It includes HomeBank financial. Here is a link to that site:
>>> http://homebank.free.fr/
>>>
>>> I'm not promoting it, just passing it on for info.
>>>
>>> Rick
>>>
>>> --- On *Wed, 12/29/10, Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>* wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> From: Beddingfield, Allen <allen at ua.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
>>> To: "'tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org'" <tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org>
>>> Date: Wednesday, December 29, 2010, 11:29 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> I hung on to Quicken 99 for way too long, and now I just use OpenOffice
>>> Calc spreadsheets.  Would be curious to see what solution you come up with.
>>> That MoneyManager looks promising...
>>> Allen B.
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: Cameron Purvis [mailto:cameron.purvis at gmail.com<http://mc/compose?to=cameron.purvis@gmail.com>
>>> ]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 08:50 AM
>>> To: Tuscaloosa Linux Users Group <tuxaloosa at tuxaloosa.org<http://mc/compose?to=tuxaloosa@tuxaloosa.org>
>>> >
>>> Subject: [Tuxaloosa] Open-source personal finance recommendations?
>>>
>>> Hope everyone had a good holiday experience - sufficient quality and
>>> quantity food... :)
>>>
>>> So the calendar end of year is upon me.  I have used Quicken for
>>> personal finances for a very, very long time and have upgraded every
>>> couple of years.  Still, it's like the MS-Office case - it does all
>>> kinds of wonderful things, of which maybe 20% are things I use.  I'd
>>> like to 'reboot' my financial management.  I've tried a few things in
>>> the past but would love to hear from anyone out there who's doing
>>> personal finance work - what tools do you use?
>>>
>>> * Quicken - obviously the market leader.  It has the benefit of being
>>> the most widely-supported app in terms of bank integration for
>>> downloading transactions, et c.  Despite this, Intuit seems to be in a
>>> constant bug-fixing war.  Version 2009 is much better but they
>>> basically trashed the UI, at least to my notice after moving from 2004
>>> (or 2005).  It has lots of features that are nice but could probably
>>> be implemented outside the app like bill reminders, memorized
>>> transactions, et c.
>>>
>>> * GNUcash is the knee-jerk answer for OSS personal accounting.  It
>>> uses a different mental model from Quicken, and I may be too stupid to
>>> use it.  GNUcash looks like an awesome accounting app but may be
>>> overkill.  Still, maybe it's time to cowboy up and learn it?
>>>
>>> * Spreadsheets - several friends of mine just use spreadsheets to do
>>> this.  It is tempting to even do a google doc so that I have access
>>> everywhere but that gets close to the maybe-privacy-concern of...
>>>
>>> * mint.com which is surprisingly nice but really doesn't handle cash
>>> transactions very well at all - which is a problem for dinosaurs who
>>> still use cash a lot.  Plus you are giving all your financial logins
>>> to a third party.  Still if you're okay with that, it's a very very
>>> smooth service.  Gaping hole in their functionality is that there is
>>> no concept of reconciling an account, so you can't 'close the books'
>>> on a monthly statement, quarter, et c.  Also really works best if you
>>> knuckle under and use THEIR categories.  Android and iPhone app is a
>>> bonus.
>>>
>>> * Moneydance - non OSS but I tried this ages ago.  Kind of like
>>> Quicken's dumb cousin.
>>>
>>> * http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/ MoneyManager EX - looks like very
>>> similar to Quicken.  Anyone used this?
>>>
>>> Who uses any of these?  Do you have any others?  I'd love to hear what
>>> you prefer (or loathe).  My goal here is to have a reasonably good
>>> handle on financial ins and outs, the ability to use a relatively
>>> limited set of categories (utilities vs. groceries etc) for budgeting
>>> purposes, some ability to develop basic reporting (am I overspending,
>>> et c) and not spend too much time managing the whole thing.
>>> Surprisingly, Quicken for all its features turns out to NOT actually
>>> shave much time off the process.
>>>
>>> So - anybody got any input on this topic?
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