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FinBodhi

Local-first, double-entry app/PWA for your financial journey

Details

External ID
45800117
Source
HN
Company
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Product
FinBodhi
Website domain
finbodhi.com
Launched
Nov. 3, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
40
Upvotes percentile
0.7969432314410481
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

We built a local-first, private, multi-currency, double-entry based personal finance app. It will help you track, visualize, and plan your financial journey. Use the `Try demo` button, to try it without an account. Small screens (mobiles) are not supported yet.By local-first we mean, your data is on your system (we use sqlite over opfs, in browser). For synching across devices, the data is encrypted with your key before it leaves your device. You can backup the data locally (if you are using chrome) and/or to your dropbox. It's designed so that we (the people building it) can't access your data.Why double-entry? Many personal finance apps operate on single entry model. But it quickly reaches limits with complicated set of transactions (returns on a house, your networth and a lot more). FinBodhi uses double entry so complicated set of transactions and accounts can be modeled (which happen often enough in users financial journey). We wrote about double-entry here: https://finbodhi.com/docs/understanding-double-entryFinBodhi currently supports import, tracking, visualization and planning. There are few built in importers and you can define your own custom importer, apply rules to imports etc. You can slice and dice your transactions, split/merge transactions, associate them with accounts etc. We support cash and non-cache accounts. For non-cache mutual fund and stock accounts in Indian context, we can fetch price for you. For others, there is manual price entry. We also support multi-currency, and you can set price for currency conversions also. You can view reports like Balance Sheet, Cashflow, P&L and much more, and visualize data in various ways. And when you are ready, start planning for your future.Eventually we would like the app to cover a users complete financial journey. There is a lot more that can be done (like mobile support, budgeting, price fetching, improved imports, ai integration and a lot more), but the current set of features is quite usable. We have written down our manifesto, which guides the overall development: https://finbodhi.com/docs/manifesto/Please give it a try. All plans are free for now. Reach out to us at discord: https://discord.gg/mQx649P6cy

Enrichment

Theme
personal finance and expense trackers
Vertical
Fintech
Function
Vertical SaaS
Audience
B2C
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
local-first double-entry bookkeeping app and pwa
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Double-entry bookkeeping logic is well-documented and client-side storage (IndexedDB/localStorage) within a PWA can be completely built using standard AI code generation.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Concerns raised: Not open source - users cannot verify code or use app if company fails, Centralized authentication via Firebase contradicts local-first claims, Limited bank integrations (only HDFC, ICICI) with manual import only, Firefox private mode not supported due to OPFS limitations, No native mobile app, only web version

Feature requests: Open source the application, Native mobile apps, Support for more banks and data sources (UPI wallets, etc.)

Competitors

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Attention rank: #23 of 206 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Looks like the first mover among its competitors.

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