Ask HN: What Personal Finance Management Tool/Software do you use and why?

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by wannano • 12 years ago

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Example: Quicken, MS Money, Budget Pulse, etc.

I use GnuCash and OpenOffice.

GnuCash is quite powerful however it is rather heard to learn. I expect that's because its instructions were written by software engineers.

Before I figured out GnuCash, I kept my checkbook in OpenOffice. Now I use OpenOffice just for budgeting. I have a really good method for it that my ex-wife figured out, and that I expanded on.

I've been intending for eons to write up my method.

I don't use QuickBooks for business finance because it charges money to download the US IRS and state tax tables. Those are provided free of charge, at considerable taxpayer expense, by the tax authorities, yet Intuit has the gall to charge, and of course the QuickBooks tax tables are in an undocumented format.

timjahn• 12 years ago

Mint.

galeos• 12 years ago

YouNeedABudget (YNAB) works for me as an effective budgeting tool where other solutions failed. It's approach acknowledges that you will over/underspend in particular spending categories. Highly recommended.

ForHackernews• 12 years ago

Mint is pretty good for tracking spending, and I use https://www.futureadvisor.com/ (only the free tier) for tracking my investments.

kfullert• 12 years ago

Personally I just use Account Tracker on my iPhone to keep track of expenses and seeing how much money I'll have left at the end of the month (it's by Graham Haley on the App Store)

KevinCTofel• 12 years ago

Long time Mint user for the cash flow/budgeting bits. It works on all of my devices and is always up to date with my accounts for assets, debts, etc... I'm considering a change for my investments which are with a money manager; Betterment, FutureAdvisor and Wealthfront all offer similar portfolio management at a much lower cost.

otavio• 12 years ago

Personal Capital, SigFig and Nvestly are all solid, but Excel ftw

xoe26• 12 years ago

I'm in the UK and still using MS Money even though it hasn't been in development for years now.

Microsoft still let's you download it though: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=2073...

Ask HN: What Personal Finance Management Tool/Software do you use and why?

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