Virtual Bank Accounts
December 15, 2023
I wish for a personal bank account like tool where I can have a bucket or virtual account called "Vacation" that has x,xxx dollars in it, but the money itself is split across one or more bank accounts and institutions. For example:
| Account | Balance | Places | |||||||||
| Vacation | 12,000 |
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Every so often I look for personal open source apps that can do this in a way that doesn't require going to school for 3 months to figure out how to be a bookkeeper or accountant.
latest prospects
Homebank
- Designed to be easy to use and to be able to analyse your personal finance and budget in detail using powerful filtering tools and beautiful charts.
- Mature software with over 25 years of user experience and feedback, and is world-oriented by being translated as many as 56 languages.
- Available on various operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, and was ported by 3rd party to MacOS, Android, and Nokia N***.
If you are looking for a completely free and easy application to manage your personal accounting, budget, finance : HomeBank should be the software of choice.
From <https://www.gethomebank.org/en/>
It's open source in that the latest stable release code is available on Launchpad.net, however the development is mostly closed. It's a single developer who like his workflow and thinking space and doesn't show his work until it's done. He does welcome patches and fixes, but requests are "talk to me about it".
I don't need help for coding purpose. You may submit patch (or branch) for bugfix thus if you have skills to, but avoid launching yourself arbitrary alone in an enhancement (wish bug), if you do really want, contact me first.
One of the reason is that the code trunk available in launchpad is always related to the current stable release. The real development trunk is never public until RC stage, so you can't contribute to it. I do prefer working that way for freedom of breaking thing and refactor simply.
You can get the latest source code from launchpad:
From <https://www.gethomebank.org/en/development.php>