Actual Budget is a powerful and open-source tool for managing personal finances. In this article - I recount my personal experience transitioning from YNAB to Actual and how I helped to build the community of volunteers. We also briefly talk about plans for 2025 and I address some frequent statements seen on the internet.
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View All TagsRelease 24.12.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- Dashboards (also called Reports) officially released as first-party feature (for details see: https://actualbudget.org/docs/tour/reports)
- Tracking budget officially released as first-party feature (for details see https://actualbudget.org/docs/getting-started/tracking-budget)
- New summary report card type
- Batch sync for SimpleFin accounts
Release 24.11.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- Optimizations to some SimpleFIN API calls
- Experimental support for setting the upcoming schedule duration
- Many improvements to the experimental dashboards feature
- Experimental templating support in rules
Release 24.10.1
The primary intent of this release is to patch a performance regression in user preferences that can cause faulty views displayed in accounts or for goal templates.
Release 24.10.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- SimpleFIN officially released as first-party feature
- Color themes: ability to set "system default" color theme
- Mobile: button to view uncategorized transactions
- Privacy mode: instead of blurring use an unintelligible font
- Experimental dashboards: ability to save cash-flow, net-worth and spending report filters and date-ranges.
Important notice about the @actual-app/api
package: starting from this release the versioning strategy of the API package will align with the web & server: {year}.{month}.{patch-version}
.
Release 24.9.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- mobile: long-press transactions to reveal more actions
- transactions table: show imported payee on hover of payee column
- filtering: ability to filter by "has tags" conditions
- budgets: highlight current month
- imports: ability to skip heading lines
- experimental: custom report homepage (dashboards)
Release 24.8.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- ability to favorite payees
- most used and favorite payees appear at the top of the payee autocomplete results
- resizable side navigation
- experimental goal templates: long term goal template support
- experimental spending report: adding last month as an option for the primary graph
Release 24.7.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- Custom reports are officially released
- Splits in rules are officially released
- Tags support for transactions (use
#tags
in notes) - Transactions: allow merging/un-merging multiple transactions
- Show account notes in sidebar (on hover)
Release 24.6.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- API: ability to run 3rd party bank-sync (GoCardless, SimpleFin) programmatically
- API: methods for working with rules
- Add option to authenticate with HTTP header -
X-ACTUAL-PASSWORD
- Add option to import CAMT.053 based XML files
- (Experimental) monthly spending report - please report feedback here
Release 24.5.0
The release has the following notable improvements:
- Ability to show/hide reconciled transactions
- Ability to prepend/append notes when bulk editing transactions
- Show remaining balance in the category autocomplete
- OFX, CSV import: ability to disable transaction de-duplication logic
- Mobile: account management functionality
- Mobile: clicking on category allows to see transactions list for the clicked category
- Desktop app release
- (Experimental) custom report improvements - please report your feedback here