Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker

by a-fadil • 8 months ago

676 215 8 months ago

Hi HN, creator of Wealthfolio here.

A year ago, I posted the first version. Since then, the app has matured significantly with two major updates:

1. Multi-platform Support: Now available on Mobile (iOS), Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux), and as a Self-hosted Docker image. (Android coming soon).

2. Addons System: We added explicit support for extensions so you can hack around, vibe code your own integrations, and customize the app to fit your needs.

The core philosophy remains the same: Always private, transparent, and open source.

denysvitali• 8 months ago

Looks very polished, I'll try it out!

Best of luck, and thank you for keeping it open source (:

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Thanks, happy to keep it open source. The community has been very helpful.

ckdarby• 8 months ago

Looks heavily inspired by Wealthsimple

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Haha, I'm a big user and fan of Wealthsimple :) I created the app initially to have a unique experience for all my other accounts in other banks. I took inspiration from other fintechs as well.

barbazoo2• 8 months ago

Does that mean if one's investments are mostly with Wealthsimple that it'll be easy to set up?

How do the integrations work, is it all file (csv) based or is there direct access as well?

GoatOfAplomb6• 8 months ago

I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner. And I love that this would give me some protection against a new version making things worse. I also love the option to write my own plugin or to hack the source code itself (even though I probably wouldn't).

But I don't think I'm willing to give up fully automated data refreshes at this point. I have too many accounts to track.

embedding-shape• 8 months ago

I love the idea of keeping my finances private

I'd love that too, but I'm not sure it's even feasible or possible, at least in the EU country where I live. I, like most people (I think?) need to file taxes each year, and those include my new positions, or what positions have disappeared, including how much I have in savings. And, the only way for me to keep savings without losing money, is to keep it in a bank, so it's again not private.

Feels like "private finance" been dead for a long time, unless you start using cryptocurrencies specifically for privacy, like zcash, otherwise you'll be having non-private data at least somewhere.

ldoughty• 8 months ago

What you describe sounds more like keeping your assets a secret... and if you feel defeated because the government can know, how do you feel about hiring an accountant? Or executing stock trades? You can't keep those activities a secret from those agents working for you. You would probably expect them to keep their privileged information about you _private_ though, right?

And I think that's what the parent post is talking about. Today's companies make you agree to 3 50-page documents which they can update at any time and your continued use after such silent updates constitutes consent.. and at some point they will sell your financial status/well-being to people for profit. So the more you feed them the more of your data that is being easily sold.

We ultimately probably can't stop that, but we can make it more difficult. Many apps like this would take your information and sell it.. having an option that lets you track your own finances without becoming a product is nice.

purple_turtle3• 8 months ago

Giving access to the same info to more people is reducing privacy.

I prefer to not give to even more people.

In the same way as my doctor knowns some private health info but to keep it private I would prefer to not give it to my employer.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Yeah, makes sense. I’ll probably toss in an add-on or optional integration with an account aggregator later, so folks can either opt in or just stick with a local-only setup if they prefer.

GoatOfAplomb6• 8 months ago

I'll certainly give this another look if you do. Good luck with it.

amrawad2• 8 months ago

Hey

Happy to help build an integration with [Lunch Flow](https://lunchflow.app), which aggregates multiple open banking providers for global coverage behind a single API.

throw0101c2• 8 months ago

I love the idea of keeping my finances private while still having a useful tracker/planner.

YNAB4 was a local client, but with YNAB5 they sadly (to me) went online and subscription.

I happily paid for v4 (one-time purchase), but was/am not willing to pay for v5 because (a) I don't like renting software, and (b) I have no need for syncing (which a subscription could justify to pay for ongoing server costs).

DarmokJalad1701• 8 months ago

ActualBudget is a pretty great YNAB alternative that is free and locally hosted.

polalavik• 8 months ago

sort of different but I built https://paperright.xyz budgeting app to address some of my frustration with budgeting apps, bank connections, ease of use, privacy, etc. It doesn't connect to your bank or take any info other than your email (+stripe if you sign up for pro). I built it because i needed a budgeting app for my brain. Also research shows AI/automated financial management doesnt work you need to manually track things to really understand whats going on.

adastra222• 8 months ago

Have you tried financier?

https://financier.io/

ornornor• 8 months ago

A while ago, I wrote a ruby gem to convert my banks’ csv export to the format ynab4 expects to import all transactions automatically. It even does currency conversion using the rate at the time of transaction (I have accounts in several currencies).

It uses a plugin structure so if your bank is missing you can contribute your parser.

https://rubygems.org/gems/ynab_convert/versions/2.0.6

Klonoar3• 8 months ago

This is one where I don't quite get the angle of hosting locally to preserve privacy.

By nature of the economic system, you must interact with 3rd parties, unless you somehow live a life where you can manage to be all crypto or (increasingly harder) cash based. At that point, there is no real benefit to privacy outside of ensuring that whatever institution(s) you work with aren't doing anything odd.

I'm open to missing something here.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

It’s more about having the optionality to not be tied to a SaaS provider and trusting them with all your financial data and bank credentials. Having options to:

1– Install a piece of software and run it locally, no subscription, no cloud 2– Have to right to use a nicer app instead of a spreadsheet 3– not hand over your banking creds. Some banks will void your account insurance if you do 4– Reduce your exposure by not putting all your financial data on some startup’s servers.

cortesoft2• 8 months ago

Well, one of the benefits is that it won't go away.

I used Mint for years, and I LOVED it. Hooked it up to all my accounts, it could track purchases and spending and kept everything up to date automatically. It would remember how I categorized things.

Of course, then Intuit decided to get rid of it and force everyone to move to Credit Karma, which doesn't do the same things AT ALL. I don't care about tracking my credit scores, and I pay off all my credit cards every month, I don't need help finding a loan for anything. The only thing it does is try to offer me loans and credit cards. It doesn't have any transaction history, so it doesn't do the one thing I care about.

The decade+ of transaction history I had in Mint was just GONE. It really sucked, and I have not found a replacement yet.

I don't mind if it is hosted, or even if I have to pay for it, but I would like to be able to keep my historical data, and for it to automatically populate from my accounts, and not go away if a company decides it can't make money from it anymore.

danielheath• 8 months ago

Trusting some random VC-backed SAAS not to sell my data is (to me) as mad as trusting that the tide won't come in - it would be astonishing if they _didn't_ sell my data.

My bank has both commercial & cultural reasons not to sell my ID & transaction history. They might still do it anyways, but it's at least plausible that they wouldn't, if only due to the harm to their reputation if it ends up in the papers.

duskdozer2• 8 months ago

It's just the mindset. The "oh well 'they' already have all my data anyway" mindset leads to more and more individual steps of giving up privacy even if you could do something about it.

It might not protect any more data, but not attempting is a guarantee that it won't.

purple_turtle3• 8 months ago

Giving access to the same info to more people is reducing privacy.

I prefer to not give to even more people.

whyleyc• 8 months ago

Have you considered https://tiller.com/ ? They can pull feeds in and refresh automatically but have a big privacy play so that only you get to see your finances (and display and manage it in Excel or Google Sheets).

grvdrm• 8 months ago

Do you use it? Curious for your thoughts. Right now I have CoPilot. Apps are ok, not great.

https://copilot.money/

GoatOfAplomb6• 8 months ago

Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely look into it.

doctorhandshake• 8 months ago

Big +1 for Tiller after trying several other options including YNAB. Your data in a spreadsheet - go nuts, use our templates, make your own, etc.

conradev2• 8 months ago

I manage all of my finances with Beancount (https://github.com/beancount/beancount). It has a native document store and I primarily use it to archive all of my statements to share with my accountants via Fava (https://github.com/beancount/fava). It’s not pretty, but it’s all in one (local) git repo.

Language models are great at turning those statements into Beancount postings and fixing errors, but the local ones not so much yet.

bob_theslob646• 8 months ago

A double-entry bookkeeping computer language that lets you define financial transaction records in a text file, read them in memory, generate a variety of reports from them, and provides a web interface.

Why would someone need this? How do you use this?

abustamam• 8 months ago

I went through this rabbit hole. I liked Mint (I know it wasn't private, but I liked it), I tried Personal Capital / Empower because I had a retirement account with them, I tried Monarch. But none of them had the one killer feature I needed — my wife and I both have individual accounts and we also have a joint account for household expenses. I want to track all of those separately.

The I found Tiller[0]. I've been really happy with it so far.

It basically syncs your transactions to a Google sheet you own. It comes with some basic things like budget and auto categorization based on fuzzy string matching, but because it's Google sheets you can play with it and do whatever you want with it.

But the nice thing is that you can dictate which accounts go into which sheet. So I have two sheets — one for household accounts and one for personal. And I don't need a separate subscription, which would have been required if I used any other service I had looked at. I can't remember exactly how much the subscription was, but I don't remember it being unfair.

[0] https://tiller.com/

ekhaliul• 8 months ago

self hosted ActualBudget and SimpleFin for fetching data automatically works great for me so far. You can also setup multiple instances and tune them separately if you like.

GoatOfAplomb6• 8 months ago

Looks promising. Thank you.

l9o• 8 months ago

this looks really polished, congrats! in your opinion, how does it compare with alternatives like actualbudget [0]? I've been using Quicken for a long time and might be in the market for a subscription-less alternative that is ideally self-hosted. Quicken has been running into lots of issues syncing some of my accounts lately (mostly duping assets).

[0] https://actualbudget.org/

brandonjcooper• 8 months ago

I've used actualbudget for several years now after switching from Quicken. Actual is great for budgeting but my strategy has been to use a separate investment tracker to get a nice dashboard to look at. I haven't found one yet that handles account syncing seamless as I'd like... I've used Ghostfolio but I'm going to give this a try.

On a side note; SimpleFIN works well with actual, and the person that runs the bridge is great.

darkwater• 8 months ago

I'm a noob on this: does it work as well with funds from all over the world? How does it track them?

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Right now the app supports three market data providers: Yahoo Finance, AlphaVantage, and MarketDataApp. If your ticker is on one of those, it updates automatically. If not, you’ll have to switch it to manual tracking and update or import prices yourself.

danielhep• 8 months ago

I have all my self hosted services set up with authentication through SSO now. Does this support that?

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Nope! Just shipped the self-hosted web app in Docker. No SSO yet.

hadlock• 8 months ago

For whatever reason, it really bothers me when people call containers Dockers in 2025

jryio2• 8 months ago

For those interested in this type of single entry accounting (and by extension double entry)

Here are some other ones I've tried and used in the past:

https://copilot.money

https://lunchmoney.app

https://ynab.com

https://beancount.io

https://hledger.org

sahaskatta• 8 months ago

Few more to consider:

https://www.monarch.com/

https://useorigin.com/

camel_Snake• 8 months ago

I use monarch and I've been happy enough with it. Would probably consider self-hosting with actual in the future, but I wanted an easy on-ramp for myself to actually get in the habit of budgeting.

adverst• 8 months ago

I use monarch, I don't think it is very good as an 'investment tracker' (what wealthfolio claims to be). It's fantastic as a more general personal finance/budget tracker.

For example - I have to reclassify loads of transactions for it to track close to correctly. Say treasuries - purchase at a discount, then at maturity redeem for full amount. You can enter them as buy/sell, but then it wont properly report to cashflow, or give you a good classification as to what type of income that was.

Similar with stocks and short term/long term. It means that even though all the info is there it's not as useful as I'd like for showing total income broken out as types of income to help with tax planning etc.

I still use it so the annoyances are not too extreme, but if there were a tool that did a better job of the investment side I'd switch.

Looking at the wealthfolio features I'm not sure it handles any of that any better though, but it does seem to break out dividend/interest income.

GoatOfAplomb6• 8 months ago

Typo fix: ynab.com

jryio2• 8 months ago

Fixed thanks!

joshstrange• 8 months ago

Clickable link: https://ynab.com

I'm a huge fan of You Need A Budget, it was instrumental in giving me control over my finances. It feels like a superpower to see all my money in one place and not care which bank account the dollars actually reside. Also makes it easier to take advantage of various offers (Credit card or things like HYSA) since I know all the records will live in YNAB and I have full control there, even if the individual banks I use have terrible UIs.

CGMthrowaway• 8 months ago

Which do you like for what purpose ?

Also seems like Empower (not listed) is the big one

j1elo2• 8 months ago

But why one or the other? Don't get me wrong, I appreciate a curated list of suggestions, but it would really be useful to have some tips or comments on the experience of each one, their shortcomings or advantages. Otherwise, it's not much better than just checking out a list of names from Google :)

workworkwork7110• 8 months ago

A lot of it is going to be needs & vibes based. Some of them have more in-depth and niche features in certain areas, like transaction splitting or categorization and others are just simple and clean UI to go for ease of use.

dmoy3• 8 months ago

I will use hledger if I'm handling someone else's money, like as a trustee. Double entry accounting is nice for being precise about things. But for my own accounts it's too much overhead to deal with reconciliation. Don't have time for that.

darkest_ruby3• 8 months ago

http://github.com/venil7/assets

TNorthover• 8 months ago

Which you appear to be the developer of from other comments in this thread. Not saying it's bad, but it's self-promotion rather than organic preference.

lvncelot• 8 months ago

Adding https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

mNovak4• 8 months ago

I still use GNUcash [1]. Only drawback is comparatively poor handling of equities, with no good way to view historic portfolio value / net worth. Great for general purpose accounting though.

[1] https://www.gnucash.org/

jldugger• 8 months ago

Does the net worth report not work correctly?

gempir• 8 months ago

For germans I found https://parqet.com/ very good.

Generous free tier and auto sync from some common german banks

workworkwork7110• 8 months ago

Will shamelessly promote ours as well: https://www.fulfilledwealth.co/

We're entering the same market but with a tilt towards investment & actionable guidance. Same read-only capabilities on the account sync side (although our budgeting + spending side is still heavily in development) except we're an RIA that can provide professional advise (for free).

PhilippGille• 8 months ago

Not mentioned yet in this subthread, but worth checking out because it runs fully local: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.stoegerit....

It's not perfect, for example its monthly/yearly subscription detection didn't work great for me, but compared to all those apps that involve trusting a third party with your banking data it's worth a look.

johntash3• 8 months ago

beancount + the web ui for it, fava, is what I end up going back to whenever I look for the sort of tools. Downside is I'm way behind on my ledger and don't _really_ want to spend the effort inputting everything to catch up.

RSHEPP• 8 months ago

I am a big fan of lunchmoney, built a TUI for it with their API too.

https://github.com/Rshep3087/lunchtui

eclipticplane• 8 months ago

You missed https://tiller.com which uses the same financial connectors as others but dumps the data into a Google/Office365 spreadsheet that you control.

mwambua• 8 months ago

There's also Actual Budget (https://actualbudget.com) which you can self-host.

throw0101c2• 8 months ago

Create a the contribution limit with an identifiable name (e.g. 2025 RRSP or 2025 Roth IRA), Year and set the contribution limit in base currency.

* https://wealthfolio.app/docs/guide/goals/

Neat: RRSPs are Canadian, so not necessarily US-only.

kepano• 8 months ago

I love that it uses Flexoki for the color palette. I never thought I'd see it so widely adopted!

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Flexoki is a bless. Thank you for making it available

honeybadger91• 8 months ago

First thing I thought of is, "I love how this is open-source and the add-on model reminds me of Obsidian". Thank you for all your hard work.

mNovak4• 8 months ago

Looks really cool, very much appreciate making it free/select price.

Just downloaded it on Windows 10, but unfortunately the modals (add account etc) aren't scrollable and cutoff the bottom of my screen, making them pretty much unusable (can't submit!)

mNovak4• 8 months ago

Issue was only with add account, so continuing to try to onboard myself.

Is there more detailed documentation available? A few troubles I've run into:

- Having trouble with stock splits -- Schwab simply reports the added shares, not the split ratio, so I can't do it via csv import

- Separate but probably related, if I add some shares back in 2022 (e.g. SWPPX, a SP500 index), the "performance" shows essentially immediate -90% return. I suspect this is also related to splits; possibly Yahoo finance retroactively applies the future split quantity on historic quotes. Edit: figured this out, I'm responsible for entering any splits across the history, it seems

- How do you designate the counter-account for transfer-in / transfer-out transactions?

- Schwab does some funny business with date strings occasionally ("03/16/2022 as of 03/15/2022"); not your problem per se, but interpreting either presented date would be better than quietly defaulting to 1970

- In the activities tab, I can only reverse date order in list view, but not grid view

- As a wishlist item.. default csv import settings for major brokerages would be great, considering this is in principle how you're expecting users to repeatedly interact with the software

- Maybe I'm missing it, but is there a simple way to see the list of accounts you've created? This would seem like a very basic feature. Edit: okay, I see them in dashboard, but can't add them there. Would seem like an appropriate nav column entry.

I don't mind dumping in a few csv every month to update, but having to manually fix my csvs before upload adds a lot of effort.

ihaveone• 8 months ago

I'd be looking for a plugin that tracks the transactions of US senators. That would be highly useful...

jewel• 8 months ago

Here's a philosophical question. Does anyone account for inflation when looking at their long term history? I've been thinking of looking at everything in 2019 dollars.

It might also be useful to adjust for inflation going backwards, e.g. everything shows in 2025 dollars.

paxys2• 8 months ago

Wealthfolio does not currently support integration with online brokers or aggregators. Data must be imported from CSV files or by manually entering transactions.

This is unfortunately going to be the deal breaker for wide adoption. Self hosting is great, but manually importing data from dozens of accounts every day and entering every single transaction as you make it is simply too much of a burden.

reactordev2• 8 months ago

Agreed, they should at least support Plaid to get your account information and pull it in locally.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Would you actually pay for that as add-on? Plaid isn’t free.

bradleyjg2• 8 months ago

If there was a sufficiently good import, something deeply customized for at least the top N banks, I think I’d be ok with that workflow. But even Quicken was disappointing on that front.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

The app support mapping profiles. I hope we will have a profile for each major broker.

I'm also experimenting with local llm models to parse files and statement and call the app tools to feed data.

ryandrake2• 8 months ago

Quicken is getting even more and more disappointing.

Used to be, you'd use what Quicken calls "direct connect" where the client software itself connects to your bank's servers and pulls down your transactions and balances. They also had this "quicken connect" where the client software connects to Quicken servers, who, in turn, contact your bank--making Intuit an unwanted middleman. Slowly, but consistently, Quicken has been dropping "direct connect" support and coercing their users to go the middleman route.

I, too, have been looking for an alternative to Quicken, but: 1. I don't want to have to go to each bank's crappy web site and download a crappy CSV to import, and 2. I also don't want the software developer inserting itself into what should be a data transfer between me and my bank.

The Holy Grail personal finance software would 1. be free and open source, 2. download data directly from financial institutions without CSVs or a middleman and 3. store the data in an open format like sqlite that I can query and manipulate outside of the application.

deanputney• 8 months ago

One possible option might be to set up email ingestion. My brokerage will send a daily update, for example. It's not super detailed, but it's a start.

j1elo2• 8 months ago

Maybe the license structure could allow for proprietary extensions. I don't think there would be many people willing to put the work of writing many deep and good quality integrations with banks for free.

offmycloud• 8 months ago

Would it be possible to write an addon to use Perl's Finance::Quote [1] like GnuCash does? It supports scraping many financial websites, as well as paid AlphaVantage quotes.

1. https://finance-quote.sourceforge.net/

nodesocket• 8 months ago

Unfortunately ETRADE for example does not make exporting all transaction easy. Last time I looked at their API it involved manually authing via a http flow signing into your ETRADE account to get a temporary token that expires. Not exactly a flow that can be used for long polling account activity.

I haven't researched much on Robinhood or Coinbase but I suspect they have much better APIs. That's an idea where a plugin system would be awesome, something like Plaid but for brokerages and Crypto exchanges only.

retep_kram• 8 months ago

I would love if it also included tracking/aggregation for regular accounts, not just investing. With spending categorisation, for example.

dang• 8 months ago

Show HN: Wealthfolio: Private, open-source investment tracker - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41465735 - Sept 2024 (263 comments)

tristor• 8 months ago

I liked the concept here, but tried it out and couldn't figure out how to add the very first thing successfully. I set up my employer's 401k as the first account, and went to add the first investment in the account, but it's a mutual fund not an ETF, which means I had to disable symbol lookup. I had a cost-basis, I had a current value, and I had a count of shares, but you only asked for an average cost-basis and count of shares. I had no way to update the current value. When starting out the first entry should have all three of these. I tried to figure out to update this, but the only value adjustment was via providing a spread (open/high), and I couldn't figure out how to use this to get it to an accurate value. Honestly, it would have been better to have cost basis tracking in a more advanced place and started with current value and count of shares, and then simply update current value on a time-basis.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

You can click on the holding, go the Quotes table and add a date, close price

blackhaj7• 8 months ago

Awesome. I have been meaning to give this a try so this is a great nudge.

Given the permissions you expose, it looks like it is possible to write a plugin to get account activities from something like Plaid so I don't need to keep importing - am I understanding correctly?

kaspermarstal• 8 months ago

Ooooh, graphs that goes up! I want that.

Looks really cool, great job.

aerhardt• 8 months ago

This looks great. I've thought about vibe-coding a similar app for a while but this might just do - I could save a ton of work.

Others have mentioned in the thread that the lack of account integration might be a problem.

Plaid has been mentioned as a potential service, are there other recommendations?

If I find time I could try to write a plugin over a few weekends.

tma• 8 months ago

https://snaptrade.com/. (disclaimer: I'm one of the cofounders)

We're developer oriented, free to get started, and investment focused.

workworkwork7110• 8 months ago

I'm one of your customers, love the product!

darkest_ruby3• 8 months ago

Interesting that this made to HN top, last week i posted as about my open source wealth tracker http://github.com/venil7/assets with all the same features, including self hosting and it barely got any traction

noeltock• 8 months ago

No landing page, UI seems bland?

andrewchen2004• 8 months ago

UI polish and this has a nice lander with a better sell than a Github readmw

tormeh• 8 months ago

Why does this app have a nice landing page? Who paid for that? Why? Nobody makes a landing page to wcratch their own itch. In some situations I'd rather have a readme.

ninininino• 8 months ago

I at least would absolutely invite you to share in this thread some of the differences between your offering and this one! I didn't see your post.

fifteencrctrs• 8 months ago

Copyright © 2025. All rights reserved.
Source available for inspection and personal use only. Free to use non-commercially; commercial use reserved to the author. No warranty or liability. Contributions do not confer authorship or ownership rights.

Not super related, but have you considered getting a proper licence? Your project is not so much 'open source' as much as it is 'source-available'. Might be a good read: https://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/9805/can-i-li...

InexSquirrel• 8 months ago

So I don't want to be rude, and am saying this purely as feedback since you asked and I detect a bit frustation - the wealthfolio site linked in the post presents a lot better than your one linked in your github.

Nominally they appear to be very similar like you say (open source, locally hosted etc), but the presentation does make a big difference for at-a-glance engagement. The wealthfolio is just... very pleasant to look at. The site largely focuses on what the value to the reader is, versus 'how do I get it running'.

Just my thoughts. I know it's incredibly frustrating when you see a copy/version of something you've made, but it gets more attention. But honestly could also just be the mood of the day. There may just be nothing to read into here.

kevinqi• 8 months ago

+1, very polite way of saying it. of course there's a difference between the two posts. open source is interesting but not enough with a financial app, since it's all about trust + usefulness.

landing page needs to look good and communicate the value prop super effectively. If it doesn't look good you'll lose people's interest in about 2 seconds.

yard2010• 8 months ago

This is nice of you. I just want to say to the GP it's mostly random IMHO. Survivorship bias is hard. You hear about only what you hear about, not all the great stuff. It's a matter of big numbers, don't give up, play the long game.

codegeek2• 8 months ago

Sometimes, its just luck or timing. But I usually upvote open source projects with an actual website and not just a repo. Thats me of course. Also, the UI screenshots from your github didn't look that appealing. Hope this feedback is helpful.

brikym• 8 months ago

It's marketing and empathising with your market. A github page doesn't give the impression of a polished product and doesn't inspire confidence. It looks more like a draft. When I go to your page the first thing I see is a list of code files but I don't care about that I want to know what it can do for _me_ and my finances.

johntash3• 8 months ago

I didn't see your previous post, but my feedback would be that your readme doesn't really list all the features? It has some screenshots, but maybe a short list of major features/what you can do with it would be helpful for people just driving by to look at it?

I don't think you need a fancy landing page for every oss project, but I have no way of telling what is different about your project without actually trying it out.

zero0529• 8 months ago

I am going to add it to my watch list on GitHub as it looks interesting. However, as the other post said, it needs an elevator pitch and do not be afraid to include more pictures.

I have a hard time finding the features of the program from the repository alone. For me personally, I do not have time to do a deep dive into the code (or even the api spec) of potentially interesting software to figure out what is going on. Especially in your case where it seems to use a pure functional approach in typescript, which creates additional overhead :) Best of luck with the project.

Dilettante_• 8 months ago

Addons system

Does it do something like custom positions? Like if I wanted to wrap my polymarket positions into there, could I hack that together?

Does this support kinda-specific stuff like those german FinTs and EBICS?

niyazpk• 8 months ago

Nice features, and very professional website!

As others have mentioned, adding account integrations will make this much easier to use.

I would also love to hear more of your story, and motivations around this project.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

I actually wrote a manifest about it :) https://wealthfolio.app/blog/wealthfolio-manifesto/

skittleson• 8 months ago

There is a few problems with the site docs, the app image for linux (missing libs) and docker instructions. Otherwise its a great idea.

ghm21992• 8 months ago

Lets say my strategy from now is: 15% on an ex-US mid cap, 15% US Largecap, 15% ACWI growth, 15% Emerging market growth, 40% in short treasury fixed income. If I already have some ETFs already, can this be used to bucket and calculate what is the current state of the ETFs I hold against the strategy?

Can it do that for Mutual funds in like retirement accounts?

Context: I want to implement my own portfolio using some weights on a basket of ETFs. The ETFs are selected by country/geography(e.g. ex-US or US or world) and then type(small, mid, large) and then finally by income strategy(growth, value, fixed, defined outcome etc) based on expected returns.

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ghm21992• 8 months ago

My hero usecase with these tools is to auto pull investments from Fidelity 401K account + Schwab brokerage + BYOBrokerage.

Then combine them and break them down by country/geography(e.g. ex-US or US or world) and then type(small, mid, large) and then finally by income strategy(growth, value, fixed, defined outcome etc)

notherhack• 8 months ago

I gave the iOS app a spin. 1. It requires at least 2 characters to search for a symbol. What about Verizon (V) or AT&T (T)? 2. I entered a holding for a fund that doesn’t have public quotes by choosing not to look up the symbol and entering the price and purchase date, but then I couldn’t find a way to manually add price quotes for later dates to reflect the change in value.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

You can search by company name. For manual pricing, click on an added manual holding, then there is a tab "Quotes" in the top right to view and edit the prices.

sakopov• 8 months ago

This looks great and it's nice to see development in this space! However, the "big box" alternatives for this which keep your accounts in sync are really cheap (I think I renewed my annual Quicken Simplify for $40) and, for the most part, "just work." So, I personally wouldn't want to switch to anything self-hosted unless it provided automated syncing. I'd actually be all over this if it did especially having a way to extend things with plugins.

conqrr2• 8 months ago

This is the 'problem' I need solved as well. Sync across multiple Financial institutions is a nightmare. If the CSV import can be automated with some Plaid/simplefin bridge that's reliable, I think it would be a nobrainer for a large group of us to selfhost instead.

skeeter2020• 8 months ago

honest question: if you're using something like Plaid that means essentially "here's my admin credentials" are you really self hosting?

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Yeah, it seems at certain points I need to add automatic syncing. The app already offers a way to extend things using plugins https://wealthfolio.app/addons.

bix62• 8 months ago

Which plugin handles syncing?

For me this is a core piece of any money app. If an app doesn’t include syncing it’s not worth it. I have too many moving pieces to deal with CSV exports.

BrenBarn2• 8 months ago

Automated transaction download is the killer feature. Unfortunately it depends on banks providing a way to do it.

ewuhic• 8 months ago

Will this help me file german taxes?

NoImmatureAdHom• 8 months ago

Get thee to SimpleFIN https://www.simplefin.org/ecosystem.html

I think without sync with financial institutions it's going to be hard to grow a userbase.

But this is very cool software!

P.S.: I ctrl+f "encrypt" on your home page and no hits. It's banking / budget / money software, there should be a hit.

johntash3• 8 months ago

Is SimpleFIN basically the same as something like Plaid? I thought it was maybe an open source thing, but it looks like you still need to sync your bank accounts to their system first?

DougN7• 8 months ago

This is really cool and kind of what I'm looking for since trusting my account details to some app gives me heartburn. I downloaded the source and built it, but still have heartburn after seeing it download 700+ crates/packages. Who knows what is in all of that?!?

dexterdog• 8 months ago

I want to use it, but the first bank I tried (wealthfront) only exports in qfx so that's a dealbreaker.

cchance• 8 months ago

Love the idea, but really need some form of access to API's for the big brokerages and apps to be able to pull in data, doing stuff by hand ... na nice looking site/app tho

ChrisNorstrom• 8 months ago

I just came here to tell you how beautiful your color scheme is. It immediately reminds me of the color of the paper of money. The layout and color scheme look professional, trustworthy, tried and true, traditional yet modern. It's gorgeous!

atbpaca• 8 months ago

This is awesome. Thank you for sharing and making it open-source!

Hnrobert42• 8 months ago

I downloaded the iOS app. I like the simplicity. I wonder if it could even be a bit simpler.

I currently do a quarterly financial review. I document the balances from all of my accounts.

In addition to buy/sell/deposit/withdrawl, could Wealthfolio have an option to just add a balance. I suppose In the meantime, I'll make do with deposits and withdrawals.

Last, could you make it a little easier to find to donate button? Or possible at all? Now that I have the app open, I can't find where to send a one time payment.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

Yes actually you can just click the edit icon near the account balance in account page to update the cash balance

netbioserror• 8 months ago

I greatly look forward to the day when the Godot team focuses on UI tools and workflow, a layout and theming engine, and slim UI-focused builds. So we can avoid this total nonsense local-server React-UI insanity. This is such a stupid way to build desktop applications.

vladde• 8 months ago

is there any way to remove entries with the CSV import function?

my bank includes transactions that are yet not final (preliminary transaction where currency conversion still isn't final). these rows change both in both the title and the amount, but i can do some guessing on how a row updates.

however: when i import my transaction a couple days later again, i need to manually keep track and remove preliminary transactions (now removed from my bank's export).

related: when i imported a CSV into YNAB, i would have to manually keep track of updated entries and remove those. with some code and state handling, i could figure out which rows no longer existed – but i couldn't remove them with the import function.

i ended up abandoning YNAB's CSV import and use their API to remove transactions... but it would have been much simpler if the CSV import could just have removed certain rows from the get-go.

(while i don't think this acts as a budget, it think others will run into similar issues as i have when it comes to importing CSV files)

lateforwork• 8 months ago

It seems promising, but usability sucks. I can't figure out how to add anything. In the holdings screen there is no add button. In the income screen there is no add button. In the performance screen there is an Add account button. But pressing it opens a search accounts panel. WTF? I was able to add benchmarks, so I can at least see a chart. The chart animations are gratuitous... all it does is make you wait a bit. I the pressed the history icon. Turns out it is the activity screen, not history. Finally I found the Add activity screen. I press Add activity... but in the dialog requires an account and I don't know how to create an account. There are no more screens. At this point I gave up.

a-fadil18• 8 months ago

You setup , accounts, goals, limits and everything in settings. Then use activity to add your transactions

dw_arthur2• 8 months ago

I update a spreadsheet twice a year which takes about 15 minutes. Tracking investments day to day isn't healthy imo.

tecoholic• 8 months ago

I agree, generally. But there is always a bit of a nuance when it comes to personal finance. I have gone through the full cycle, I started off with logging every single transaction, then syncing everything and tracking monthly cash flow, investment dashboards and then to yearly syncs and now I barely think about it.

What happened was I slowly built an awareness of how things are going, where my spending and savings are and internalised a few things. For example, as a contractor I responsible for my taxes, so 30% of my invoice goes into a savings account as soon as I get paid. But, that wouldn’t have happened right away for me, if I have never done the monthly cash flow.

I think everyone goes through this journey. Because I often see people super into accounting for a couple of years and then completely abandon it later in life. Looking at it daily in early stages help get a feel and set expectations for the long term. Some people get sidetracked here and the phrase “Beat the market” grates on me for that reason.

workworkwork7110• 8 months ago

That's kind of just a brag about being wealthy though, isn't it? For many people who are trying to get escape velocity to being financially secure, tracking spending + investments is a necessary reality.

No one is saying it's healthy but if you have debt, can't save or don't have investments on track to meet your future needs then what's more unhealthy, monitoring or lower living standards?

dw_arthur2• 8 months ago

I am only talking about investments. You'll stress yourself out and might make bad decisions if you frequently look at your stock portfolio. Tracking spending isn't a bad idea if you're trying to save or struggling to save.

Yodel0914• 8 months ago

I do a similar thing on the investment side. I did play with this app to see if it would give me anything that my spreadsheet doesn’t, but I’m not really seeing it

On the spending/budgeting side, I could see the use of day-to-day tracking. I import my credit card transactions into gnucash weekly - if I didn’t already have a good workflow set up I could see the use of something like this to help keep on top of things.

newman314• 8 months ago

I currently use Banktivity which is OK. Would love to hear from any others that have used Banktivity and migrated to something else. Ideally, there should be OFX support.

xvilka• 8 months ago

Would be nice to have integration with hledger, Ledger, beancount, and other PTA tools.

sebmellen• 8 months ago

I see a lot of talk about alternatives, but no one has mentioned Quicken. What!? Quicken is the undisputed king of personal finance software!

Wealthfolio looks very neat too.

kinnth• 8 months ago

Yeah I need to mirror a few other comments. I would definitely give this a go, but I need plugins that connect automatically to my Broker. In my case IBKR, but the top brokers you would need Schwab, Fidelity, Trading212, Hood.

Without that onboarding the tool becomes a headache and what I already have is good enough. YNAB is also a very good reference of where to go next in the budgeting sense. That has a real use case and also opportunity for solving many users needs.

Good luck I can see it's a great piece of software, but as trading is my fulltime job I have far too many trades and without an auto-importer it wont work for me.

matt3210• 8 months ago

lol zero looks the same on all platforms

pimterry• 8 months ago

How does this compare to Ghostfolio? Seems like it's exactly the same space & Ghostfolio has an existing substantial user base. Why should I choose one or the other?

RagnarD• 8 months ago

The idea of privacy and wealth tracking is problematic. Other than a subset of crypto (and only a subset), all of the things being tracked are in some company's database(s), particularly any equity positions or cash accounts. There's nothing particularly private about that, really.

fittingopposite• 8 months ago

Looks very polished. Nice work! When do you expect to release the Android version ?

mwexler• 8 months ago

I am actually quite frustrated with the state of "Open Banking" access in the US. No matter which tool I use across open source or just something I hack myself (or a spreadsheet), I still have no easy way to get to my banking and investment data. Plaid and other "aggregator/scrapers" are not designed for a single user. Tiller and Lunchapp seem OK, but now I have yet another party involved in the process.

Why is there not an aggregation service that literally lets me go directly to my financial institutions to pull down my data and put it into whatever I want? A Plaid, Finicity, Yodlee, MX for the user, not the mass-traffic developer?

I guess, like price engines and free hosting, the business model isn't there to support a thing that just helps folks.

dmoy3• 8 months ago

SimpleFIN is a layer on top of MX that you can pay $15/yr for.

It's still MX under the hood though so it's maybe not quite as satisfying of a solution? I agree I wish we had better consistent APIs between financial institutions for data access in the US.

ftwynn• 8 months ago

As I understand it, Tiller is basically a wrapper around Yodlee with some spreadsheet integration. I've found pulling the data from the spreadsheets into beancount/fava isn't too bad.

meonkeys• 8 months ago

This is awesome follow-through by @a-fadil / @afadil. Here's a similar post from a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41465735

In the space of local-first finance apps, I've really enjoyed Actual Budget (as have many, based on what I'm seeing in other comments). I'll check out Wealthfolio but like @dw_arthur I'm concerned about looking at investments too much / too often. I try to invest based on personal experience / value and always go long. I use off-budget accounts in Actual to track investments/illiquid value changes and update them every 6mo-1yr. I'm sure a spreadsheet would work fine for this as well. But for someone who moves investments more frequently, Wealthfolio looks awesome.

For managing my life's data, this golden combination is always going to win: app that works well | full/local control of data | sane FOSS project governance | software license mitigates enshittification (e.g. AGPLv3)

john-titor• 8 months ago

strange no one mentioned portfolio performance until now https://www.portfolio-performance.info/en/

lots of features, has been around for some time

whnr• 8 months ago

If you’re a German this is wonderful because it imports PDFs of most German (and some European) brokers perfectly.

A big pain I have with the US reporting is that dividend payments don’t give the quality there based on anywhere. That makes it close to impossible to calculate TTWROR or IRR. Because just because yahoo says there was a dividend does not mean there was cash flow.

sciencesama• 8 months ago

Is there a way i can get my costco orders into a system for searching and analysis ?

loa_observer• 8 months ago

it would be great if it can integrate a graphic walker compoennt for those tablaur data visualzation on-flight

https://github.com/Kanaries/graphic-walker

bluprince13• 8 months ago

This is amazing. I love that you can provide your own API keys for anything. That’s a model I hadn’t considered.

Thank you so much for this. I’ll check out the repo later and see if I can contribute in any way.

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