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johntash@eviltoast.org 10 months agoHave you tried any of the other options by any chance? Anything that GNUCash does well that keeps you using it? I think not having mobile access would be the thing I’d miss the most
When I started, it was only GNUCash as a free option. Never tried anything else. It fits my needs as a family very well.
There’s no mobile or web access, and that’s fine for me. Updating it is something done once a week or less for me anyway.
I manage mortgage, virtual account for kids allowances, budget for future expenditures, and have a set of reports that I refresh to keep tabs on my money and goals.
Totally fair. When you have a lot of history in an app and don’t have any real issues with it, it takes a lot to want to switch to something else.
Do you import transactions at all, or just manually input them?
My previous bank used make it easy to import them, but ever since I’ve moved countries I’ve just been doing it by hand. The banking system here sucks.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Beware, Gnucash is meant to be pro level accounting software. Is not a simple ledger or a tech/crypto gateway. I also use it for my personal life, but there’s like 30% of features I don’t use because they’re business accounting stuff I don’t need. It predates the cloud, it cares not for the latest trends, it crunches numbers and spits out reports. That’s part of what I like about it. It is not simple but it also isn’t bloated.
johntash@eviltoast.org 10 months ago
I think gnucash looking more like actual accounting software is one of the things that originally put me off of it. I didn’t know what double-entry accounting was at the time either.