Finary

Aggregates bank accounts, brokerages, crypto and real estate into one net worth and asset allocation dashboard.

KINDA · partial replacement
price $14.5/mosubscription / year $174estimated build time a weekendreplaced by 0 people

The dashboard half of Finary is a weekend project: a table of holdings, a price fetcher, a few charts, a history table so you can see net worth over time. The hard half is the plumbing, connecting to hundreds of European banks and brokers through PSD2 aggregators, which needs either a licensed provider or a lot of scraping you do not want to maintain. You can get most of the way with CSV imports from your broker plus public price APIs for equities and crypto, refreshed on a cron. That gets you honest numbers with a monthly chore attached. If the chore is the reason you were paying, this is not a replacement.

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What you give up

  • Automatic bank and broker sync across hundreds of institutions
  • Mobile apps with push updates and Face ID
  • Automated real estate valuation estimates and loan tracking
  • Benchmarking against other users and the community and content layer
  • Someone else fixing the connector the day your bank changes its API

Why people still pay

Because nobody actually keeps a spreadsheet updated for two years. Finary's pitch is that you connect once and then your net worth is just correct every morning, including the accounts you forget about, and that only works if someone maintains regulated connections to your specific bank in your specific country. The DIY build is honest and private and free, but it asks you for fifteen minutes of CSV wrangling a month, and most people quietly stop doing that around month three.

Your build guide

The stack, security requirements, and agent rules for a focused replacement.

Before you start

  • Runtime and tools: TypeScript, React, Node, SQLite and decimal.js for explicit decimal calculations.
  • Before starting: A representative CSV with known totals, currency and date conventions, and an agreed calculation specification.
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TypeScript, React, Node, SQLite and decimal.js for explicit decimal calculations
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Data design: Store Account, Instrument, Position, Liability, Quote and FXObservation; every valuation includes timestamp/currency/source, and stale or absent quotes are shown explicitly.
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Setup: A representative CSV with known totals, currency and date conventions, and an agreed calculation specification
engineering roadmap

Implementation plan

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Phase 1

Pin the working slice and create its example input: Import holdings and liabilities from CSV, enter private-asset valuations, refresh permitted quotes and view dated net-worth/allocation snapshots. Confirm setup: A representative CSV with known totals, currency and date conventions, and an agreed calculation specification.

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Phase 2

Implement persistence and write-time invariants before decorating the UI: Store Account, Instrument, Position, Liability, Quote and FXObservation; every valuation includes timestamp/currency/source, and stale or absent quotes are shown explicitly.

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Phase 3

Connect the working view to real saved state. Preserve imported source rows and units, use decimal arithmetic with stated rounding, and retain correction history. Missing values are unknown rather than zero; reports describe records and assumptions rather than giving advice.

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Phase 4

Expose the app-specific limits and recovery path in context: No bank credentials, trading or personalized recommendations in the MVP. Distinguish contributions from investment returns and disclose valuation assumptions before charting performance.

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Phase 5

Walk through this concrete acceptance case and preserve its exported evidence: Price one asset in EUR, retain another without a quote and add a USD liability; totals identify excluded/stale values and do not silently mix currencies. Finish the README and backup/restore instructions; report unfinished capabilities explicitly.

the pro prompt
download AGENTS.md
Build the following focused alternative to Finary. This is a deliberately limited personal or small-team substitute, not parity with the paid service.

WORKING SLICE
Import holdings and liabilities from CSV, enter private-asset valuations, refresh permitted quotes and view dated net-worth/allocation snapshots.

SETUP AND ARCHITECTURE
Use TypeScript, React, Node, SQLite and decimal.js for explicit decimal calculations. Prerequisites: A representative CSV with known totals, currency and date conventions, and an agreed calculation specification. Before integrating anything, record actual versions and permissions, plus model files or provider limits only where used, in the README; make unavailable dependencies visible rather than simulating success.

DOMAIN MODEL AND INVARIANTS
Store Account, Instrument, Position, Liability, Quote and FXObservation; every valuation includes timestamp/currency/source, and stale or absent quotes are shown explicitly.

IMPLEMENTATION CONTRACT
Preserve imported source rows and units, use decimal arithmetic with stated rounding, and retain correction history. Missing values are unknown rather than zero; reports describe records and assumptions rather than giving advice. Provide an input/setup view, the main work view, and a review/export view appropriate to this workflow. Preserve the last saved state if a job or save fails. Include empty, loading, permission-denied, partial and retryable-error states. Log identifiers and error categories without secret values or unnecessary private content.

APP-SPECIFIC BOUNDARY AND RECOVERY
No bank credentials, trading or personalized recommendations in the MVP. Distinguish contributions from investment returns and disclose valuation assumptions before charting performance.

ACCEPTANCE SCENARIO
Price one asset in EUR, retain another without a quote and add a USD liability; totals identify excluded/stale values and do not silently mix currencies. Also reopen the app after an interrupted operation, confirm the saved record/export remains inspectable, and document the recovery action. These are implementation acceptance requirements, not a claim that this guide has been tested.

DELIVERY
Deliver a runnable repository with migrations or project-format versioning, a non-sensitive example, environment/permission setup, the exact manual acceptance steps, and a backup/export-and-restore walkthrough. Implement the working slice before optional integrations; list any deferred paid-product capabilities honestly. Do not add capabilities outside the working slice just to resemble the original product.

PROJECT RULES FOR AGENTS.md
Keep the domain invariants above executable at the write boundary. Propose scope changes before adding providers or permissions. Never fabricate source evidence, publish results, identity matches or successful delivery. Preserve user originals and require an explicit confirmation for destructive changes or external publication.

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Questions about Finary

Can you build your own Finary with AI?

Partly. The dashboard half of Finary is a weekend project: a table of holdings, a price fetcher, a few charts, a history table so you can see net worth over time. The hard half is the plumbing, connecting to hundreds of European banks and brokers through PSD2 aggregators, which needs either a licensed provider or a lot of scraping you do not want to maintain. You can get most of the way with CSV imports from your broker plus public price APIs for equities and crypto, refreshed on a cron. That gets you honest numbers with a monthly chore attached. If the chore is the reason you were paying, this is not a replacement.

What does the Finary build prompt cover?

The prompt starts with this scope: Import holdings and liabilities from CSV, enter private-asset valuations, refresh permitted quotes and view dated net-worth/allocation snapshots. Full-product capabilities excluded from the comparison include: Automatic bank and broker sync across hundreds of institutions; Mobile apps with push updates and Face ID; Automated real estate valuation estimates and loan tracking. Follow the implementation plan and its prerequisites before expanding the build.

How do I use the prompt, AGENTS.md and agent skills?

Start with the Finary prerequisites and stack, then copy the prompt into your coding agent. Save the project rules as AGENTS.md in the project root. Linked skills are optional packages or source instructions for specific tasks; review their current contents and install only those matching the chosen stack. A skill does not supply API credentials or verify the finished app.

How long will this Finary project take?

The catalogue estimate is a weekend for the limited scope. Setup, integration approvals, debugging, deployment and ongoing maintenance can add time. This is an estimate, not a delivery guarantee.

What would I give up by replacing Finary?

Automatic bank and broker sync across hundreds of institutions; Mobile apps with push updates and Face ID; Automated real estate valuation estimates and loan tracking; Benchmarking against other users and the community and content layer; Someone else fixing the connector the day your bank changes its API. Because nobody actually keeps a spreadsheet updated for two years. Finary's pitch is that you connect once and then your net worth is just correct every morning, including the accounts you forget about, and that only works if someone maintains regulated connections to your specific bank in your specific country. The DIY build is honest and private and free, but it asks you for fifteen minutes of CSV wrangling a month, and most people quietly stop doing that around month three.

What price is this guide comparing against?

The recorded Finary Plus plan is $14.5/mo (monthly, billed annually), checked 2026-08-18. Check the linked pricing source before buying. Building your own also has hosting, API and maintenance costs; the recorded amount is not a guaranteed saving.

What can I use instead of building Finary?

No alternative is listed in this entry yet. That is a gap in this catalogue, not proof that no suitable product exists. Compare the paid product and the proposed scope before committing to a build.

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