Why this matters
Personal finance tools mostly want your bank credentials and a subscription. FinanceTool was the local-first counterpoint: a desktop app (Python + Qt) where transactions, budgets, accounts, and reports live in plain CSV/JSON files on your own machine. No cloud, no account, no data leaving home.
What exists now
A working desktop app: transaction management with auto-categorization, budgets, accounts, dashboards, and embedded reporting charts. It ran as a daily driver for a while.
What I’m looking for
Nothing right now; this loop is closed.
Open questions
This project is archived, honestly: the existing solutions out there are good enough that maintaining a parallel tool wasn’t earning its keep. It stays on the board because the local-first premise still feels right, and it’s worth a revisit if the incumbents enshittify, a pattern with strong historical precedent.