Commerce · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Spendlens
Privacy first. Your finance. Your data. Your money in focus.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier.
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I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulatorfree tier, from $10.75/mo▲766Hey everyone! After another year of building as a solo dev on nights and weekends, I'm back with an update on this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31083093. TL;DR - ProjectionLab (https://projectionlab.com) is a privacy-friendly personal finance planning tool where you can create financial plans that go beyond the standard online retirement calculators. And by popular request, it now supports self-hosting for Lifetime users! Something I'm grateful for is that our community here on HN is the difference between PL existing and not. There was actually a time…
2023 · projectionlab.com · its alternatives →
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Ray▲293I've been using this daily for 4 months and figured others might find it useful. This is my first open source project so would love any feedback. Ray connects to your bank via Plaid, stores everything in an encrypted local SQLite database, and lets you ask questions about your finances in natural language. No cloud, no account, your data is stored on your machine. Before anything reaches the LLM, all PII is stripped — your name, companies, transaction details are redacted and replaced with tokens, then rehydrated locally in the response. The AI never sees who you are.
Apr 2026 · rayfinance.app · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I built Whisper Money because I was frustrated that every personal finance app wanted full access to my bank credentials, fed my transactions into AI systems, or sold my spending data to third parties. Whisper Money takes a different approach: - *No bank credential sharing* - Import your transactions via CSV/XLS exports from your bank. No Plaid, no OAuth to your bank, no third-party integrations that can get breached. - *No AI snooping* - Your transactions are never fed into AI systems you don't control. - *No third-party data sharing* - Your financial data is never shared with…
Nov 2025 · whisper.money · its alternatives →
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We just released an MCP server that lets Claude (or any MCP client) pull real-time and historical financial data: equities, options chains, crypto, FX, commodities, fundamentals, economic indicators, and 50+ technical signals. You can ask things like: “Plot NVDA’s RSI vs AMD’s over the past year.” “Show the yield curve shift since 2020.” “What are Apple’s recent earnings surprise trends? “Make a 3-statement model for ORCL.” Claude runs the requests, does the math, and returns the data or generates charts/models all inside the chat. Setup takes about a minute. You’ll need Claude Pro…
Nov 2025 · mcp.alphavantage.co · its alternatives →
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SpendSights▲105Simply track your money just from your bank statements
2023 · spendsights.in · its alternatives →
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Share your budget and spending anonymously
2019 · budgetwithus.com · its alternatives →
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YourStake turns client chaos into organized intelligence with AI-powered assistants for financial advisors. Our Document, Meeting, and Portfolio assistants streamline your practice while our values-based investing solutions help you deliver on client priorities.
2020 · yourstake.org · its alternatives →
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Snap a receipt. AI does the rest. Your money, your data.
Feb 2026 · budgetella.app · its alternatives →
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SpendKeep▲27The Privacy-First Expense Tracker. No Bank Login Required.
Jul 2026 · spendkeep.com · its alternatives →
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MoneyMap▲8Escape the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle, together
Jul 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Privacy-first budgeting. No bank sync required.
Mar 2026 · ledgerlens.magency.co · its alternatives →
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Personal finance management for Node.js hackers and Google Docs users - kika/hackerwallet
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm Canadian, live abroad, and my money is scattered across two countries, multiple currencies, banks, brokerages, real estate, and some private equity. No app could hold all of it, and none could answer a simple question like "what's my actual USD exposure?" Brisa pulls everything together (Plaid + manual accounts + real estate + PE, all multi-currency) and puts an AI on top that has my full financial picture in context. Instead of clicking through charts, I can just ask. Would appreciate any feedback!
Jul 2026 · demo.joinbrisa.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! Today I'm launching Pane, a tool that gives AI context on your financial data. Once connected, any MCP-compatible client (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT, etc.) can answer questions like: - "What did I spend on food this month?" - "What's my net worth right now?" - "Show me my recurring subscriptions" - "How much do I owe across all credit cards?" - "What are my investment holdings?" It's been really transformative in helping me and some of my friends understand their finances, where they are overspending, or even being double billed in some cases. I'm very aware that this is a somewhat…
Mar 2026 · pane.money · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, I built an app that follows the envelope budgeting philosophy like YNAB and with beautiful expense breakdown displayed in sankey, line, bar charts. It also tracks your crypto wallet (BTC & ERC20), bank connections through Plaid and brokerage accounts through SnapTrade. Create unlimited categories, cash/loan/credit accounts and start budgeting at https://buildyourbudget.com/
Nov 2025 · buildyourbudget.com · its alternatives →
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Quantive▲5I started tracking my net worth when I started working in 2019 and I used a spreadsheet for that. But, having accounts in multiple currencies and updating it every month got old. I wanted to look at the numbers on my phone in a queue, but ended up rebuilding formulas at my laptop every month. Also, I didn't want to hand my bank logins to a third-party aggregator to get there. So I built the tool I've always wanted: without bank connections, syncing the same dashboard on every device, and making sure the data was encrypted in my browser so the server can't read it. You submit your balances or…
Jul 2026 · usequantive.app · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, I'm Steve, co-founder of Factor.fyi, a new data platform for querying and visualizing financial datasets using SQL. During the pandemic, I took much more of an active role in managing my portfolio. I wanted to be able to make informed decisions about the investments I was making, and explore financial data in new ways. Market and Econ data are some of the most talked-about and widely-available datasets out there, but I was frustrated by the lack of options to answer questions I had, like, "What would have happened if I had started dollar-cost averaging VTI back in 2013?"[1] Or, "How…
2022 · factor.fyi · its alternatives →
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Zerosum▲3I've been a YNAB user for years but couldn't justify $109/yr for an app where I never used bank sync. So I built my own. ZeroSum is zero-based budgeting (same envelope method) with a full YNAB import wizard — bring your entire budget history over. 50+ currencies, shared budgets, analytics, keyboard shortcuts. $40/yr. Stack: React (Vite + TanStack Router) on Cloudflare Pages, Hono + tRPC on Render. Happy to talk about the technical decisions. Try it free for 35 days: https://zerosum.so
Feb 2026 · zerosum.so · its alternatives →
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Private and local. No AI or cloud. Just you and your money.
Jun 2026 · finplan.me · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone! I’ve been working on a small personal finance tool called Tender for the better part of a year. I got tired of doing expenses by hand - going through several accounts to figure out refunds, subscription cancellations, getting paid back via venmo, etc. I’d get to the point where I’d have to go through months of transactions at a time if I got lazy and fell behind. The workflow in Tender is centered around getting to inbox-zero. Transactions leave the inbox when they’re categorized and there’s a basic rules engine for automation. You can also do things like add notes, set…
2023 · tender.run · its alternatives →
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