SimpleFIN
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7recommend
1warn against
Nov 21, 2025first mention
Oct 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“You could add support for something like simplefin.org, which provides an API for connecting to many different financial orgs.”
uses a local budgeting setupon “Show HN: Pulse Local, a Mac budgeting app whose AI m…”
“but its good enough and the price was cheap enough that I just bit the bullet”
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“I use that to track credit card spending and my checking account.”
“SimpleFIN¹ looks compelling.”
“The integration is pretty good.”
Caveats and dissent
“they made some surprising errors with some of my accounts (incorrect sign, completely missing some transactions)”
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“You could add support for something like simplefin.org, which provides an API for connecting to many different financial orgs.”
“they made some surprising errors with some of my accounts (incorrect sign, completely missing some transactions)”
“but its good enough and the price was cheap enough that I just bit the bullet”
“I use that to track credit card spending and my checking account.”
There’s also this: https://beta-bridge.simplefin.org/. Very reasonably priced and it works great. Actual Budget uses it.
“SimpleFIN¹ looks compelling.”
“The integration is pretty good.”
“Get thee to SimpleFIN”
“SimpleFIN works well with actual”