Open Finance
7.4#57 in personal finance softwareFree planFree planAndroidiOSWebAPI
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| Fact | Open Finance | PocketSmith |
|---|---|---|
| Account sync | both | both |
| Bill tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Budgeting tools | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Mobile apps | both | both |
| Net-worth tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Purpose | Open Finance is a self-hosted, open-source personal finance app for managing accounts, budgets, reports, bills, debts, and goals. | PocketSmith is personal finance software for forecasting future bank balances and interacting with money. |
| Security | The project says it uses AES-256-GCM encryption at rest, device PIN and biometric unlock, recovery codes for PIN resets, and agent-action audit logs. | Connections are encrypted, stored data is encrypted at rest, passwords use bcrypt hashing, and PocketSmith reports an SSL Labs A+ transport rating as of February 2024. |
Open Finance suits people who want local, self-hosted control over personal-finance data. It also fits users comfortable supplying their own Plaid keys, manual entry, or deploying desktop and home-server versions.
It suits people who want to budget, monitor connected accounts and project balances, including users managing finances across currencies. The free plan is aimed at casual budgeters.