{"id":285,"date":"2016-07-22T12:22:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T11:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frosteyes.dk\/?p=285"},"modified":"2017-04-19T12:31:25","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T11:31:25","slug":"tools-for-budget-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.frosteyes.dk\/index.php\/projects\/tools-for-budget-help","title":{"rendered":"Tools for budget help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Part of a normal household is to have a budget for your economy. And as we are thinking on the possibilities for buying a house we need to have a clear view of our economy.<\/p>\n<p>For many is the standard just to use a spreadsheet. Though it is easy to get started with using the spreadsheet, it does not provide a way for syncing between computers and to make more complicated setups with different\u00a0 accounts and test for different financing possibilities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So my wishlist is a personal financial application \/ budget software which we can use on my Linux workstation, Macbook laptop and Maries Windows laptop. As we both have iPhone and iPad a tool for viewing the reports on those devices must also be supported. A possibility is a web application running on a local web-server, as I don&#8217;t want to use a cloud service and hand over our financial information to third party.<\/p>\n<p>It need to be able to import data from our bank and create grouping and reports based on this data.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tools I have seen on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneyspire.com\" target=\"_blank\">moneyspire<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Advertises itself to be an easy personal finance software, running on Linux, Mac, Windows and have an app for iPhone and iPad.<\/li>\n<li>Regarding sync. In there support section they indicate that a cloud drive is needed and recommend Dropbox.<\/li>\n<li>You manually need to save it to the cloud drive and load it from the cloud drive.<\/li>\n<li>It cost $34.99 for the basic version and $69.99 for the plus version<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnucash.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">GnuCash<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Is a personal and small-business financial-accounting software under GNU GPL license. It seems to have existed for many years.<\/li>\n<li>It works under Linux, Windows and Mac.<\/li>\n<li>There exist a DB backend for SQL, but not very used.\n<ul>\n<li>http:\/\/money.stackexchange.com\/questions\/27210\/gnucash-and-version-control<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/wiki.gnucash.org\/wiki\/FAQ#SQL_Database<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moneydance.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoneyDance<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal Finance software with Linux, Windows and Mac versions. It does also have iPhone, iPad apps.<\/li>\n<li>It cost $49.99<\/li>\n<li>It seems to also use DropBox for syncing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moneywizapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MoneyWiz<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>Another tool have options for Mac, Windows, iPhone\/iPad.<\/li>\n<li>Cost $24.99 for Windows and Mac versions. Have a number of subscriptions. Sync over its own servers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mint.com\" target=\"_blank\">Mint<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Is a pure only service, so not for us. It does not seem to be able to run on a locale server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youneedabudget.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">YNAB<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>You need a budget is pure only service. So not for us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other links<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alternativeto.net\/software\/gnucash\/?platform=iphone\">http:\/\/alternativeto.net\/software\/gnucash\/?platform=iphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alternativeto.net\/software\/moneyspire\/?platform=iphone\">http:\/\/alternativeto.net\/software\/moneyspire\/?platform=iphone<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5828438\/five-best-desktop-personal-finance-tools\">http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5828438\/five-best-desktop-personal-finance-tools<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of a normal household is to have a budget for your economy. And as we are thinking on the possibilities for buying a house we need to have a clear view of our economy. For many is the standard just to use a spreadsheet. 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