What do you use to record, budget, and manage your personal finances?

* Gnucash: I've been using it for years, but I'm tired of manually entering 
data and the online banking is too manual, fiddly, and error prone to be useful.

* KMyMoney, Grisbi: The user community is a lot smaller than GnuCash, so they 
are missing features and I worry about moving my data into a product that 
doesn't have a strong enough following to be around in 10 years.

* MoneyDance: Has promise. I don't see any way to get my money out. 2nd tier 
mobile access. No sync across devices. But probably cheaper than a web-based 
subscription service.

* Mint: Looks really cool, but if I'm not paying, I'm the product. And how do I 
get my data out? I can see CSV downloads, but I worry about that being enough.

* Mvelopes: I think I like their approach to budgeting the best, but the 
software looks like it was last innovative in 2009. Flash on Linux isn't going 
to work much longer. When I couldn't find their pricing in five minutes of 
looking, I started wondering what they have to hide.

* HelloWallet: Has promise. Similar concerns about getting my money out if I 
ever need to stop paying $9/mo.

* Yodlee Money Center: Their web site tells me nothing.

One other thought:

Every money management system I have seen that synchronizes with online banking 
treats the bank's records as the authoritative source of transaction data. I 
have seen enough bank errors and mistaken charges that I want my receipts to be 
the authoritative transaction data. My software needs to document my view of 
truth.

Picture this work flow: my software downloads the bank record, and then allows 
me to mark each transaction as correct when I compare it with either a receipt 
or my memory. Instead of reconciling my printed bank statement, the system 
would monitor for post-facto changes to the bank's account history. This allows 
the software to highlight places where someone is tampering with my account.

Does anything work like this?

Thanks,

Richard

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