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by berkut 4565 days ago
Missing the "Cloud - based" part I think...

I agree with the idea of a free/open finance manager - definitely when it connects to the bank through online services.

I wrote a GPL'd finance app for OS X a few years ago, and tried to add online banking support, but other than OFX HTTP download, there didn't seem to be any standard specification for it at the time other than screen-scraping, which I don't think counts, so I didn't bother, given it would be different for each bank.

Another issue is that my bank would give abbreviated/limited names and descriptions of the data, which meant that there needed to be a "post import" step to tidy the data up to make it meaningful which was annoying.

I don't know what the state of things is now...

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The last place I want my personal finance details is in "the cloud".
This is an open source project designed to be hosted on one of the "personal cloud" platforms that you can run yourself on your own hardware, or if you want, run on a VPS that you trust. That eliminates many of the concerns that people generally have about "the cloud," while still giving you the convenience of having it web-accessible from anywhere you want to check it.
Or I can use X11 forwarding over SSH to access GNUcash from my desktop which seems a lot safer than hoping that whatever VPS I have on the Internet is magically secure.