Wealthfolio
Investment tracker in Money & business
Open-source investment tracker praised for its polished design and for keeping financial data out of third-party hands; critics say automatic account syncing and documentation are lacking.
Open-source investment tracker praised for its polished design and for keeping financial data out of third-party hands; critics say automatic account syncing and documentation are lacking.
43 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 32
- criticize it
- 11
- approval share
- 74%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 32 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 2.9 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Polished, professional design and UI
“I just want to also commend you on the UI/UX here, it looks and feels really solid.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “The layout and color scheme look professional, trustworthy, tried and true”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “The wealthfolio is just... very pleasant to look at.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” - Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker”
- Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker”
- Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker”
Keeps financial data off third-party apps
“This is really cool and kind of what I'm looking for since trusting my account details to some app gives me heartburn.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “the makers of this particular product don't have a ton of my financial information”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” Open source with your own API keys
“I love how this is open-source and the add-on model reminds me of Obsidian”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “This is awesome. Thank you for sharing and making it open-source!”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “I love that you can provide your own API keys for anything.”
Comment from 24 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
No automatic brokerage account syncing
“I personally wouldn't want to switch to anything self-hosted unless it provided automated syncing”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “Love the idea, but really need some form of access to API's for the big brokerages and apps”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “they should at least support Plaid to get your account information and pull it in locally”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” - Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker”
Hard to add accounts at first
“Without that onboarding the tool becomes a headache and what I already have is good enough.”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “I couldn't figure out how to add the very first thing successfully.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “usability sucks. I can't figure out how to add anything.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” Modals cut off on screen
“the modals (add account etc) aren't scrollable and cutoff the bottom of my screen, making them pretty much unusable”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “modals (add account etc) aren't scrollable and cutoff the bottom of my screen”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” Documentation is incomplete
“There is a few problems with the site docs, the app image for linux (missing libs) and docker instructions.”
Comment from 21 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker” “This doesn't appear to be documented”
Comment from 22 Nov 2025 in “Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker”
What people said
39 of the 45 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“If you're interested in finance and investment tracking”
“it doesn't incorporate the historic price of stocks”
“I love that you can provide your own API keys for anything.”
“That’s really the killer feature for this imo.”
“for someone who moves investments more frequently, Wealthfolio looks awesome”
“I did play with this app to see if it would give me anything that my spreadsheet doesn’t, but I’m not really seeing it”
“Without that onboarding the tool becomes a headache and what I already have is good enough.”
“Wealthfolio looks very neat too.”
“This doesn't appear to be documented”
“usability sucks. I can't figure out how to add anything.”
“I like the simplicity. I wonder if it could even be a bit simpler.”
“This is awesome. Thank you for sharing and making it open-source!”
“The layout and color scheme look professional, trustworthy, tried and true”
“Love the idea, but really need some form of access to API's for the big brokerages and apps”
“This is really cool and kind of what I'm looking for since trusting my account details to some app gives me heartburn.”
“But this is very cool software!”
“the modals (add account etc) aren't scrollable and cutoff the bottom of my screen, making them pretty much unusable”
“I personally wouldn't want to switch to anything self-hosted unless it provided automated syncing”
“It requires at least 2 characters to search for a symbol.”
“My hero usecase with these tools is to auto pull investments from Fidelity 401K account”
“I love how this is open-source and the add-on model reminds me of Obsidian”
“The wealthfolio is just... very pleasant to look at.”
“There is a few problems with the site docs, the app image for linux (missing libs) and docker instructions.”
“Nice features, and very professional website!”
“Your project is not so much 'open source' as much as it is 'source-available'.”
“has a nice lander with a better sell than a Github readmw”
“This is unfortunately going to be the deal breaker for wide adoption.”
“This looks great. I've thought about vibe-coding a similar app for a while but this might just do”
“Looks really cool, great job.”
“manually importing data from dozens of accounts every day and entering every single transaction as you make it is simply too much of a burden”
“Awesome. I have been meaning to give this a try so this is a great nudge.”
“I couldn't figure out how to add the very first thing successfully.”
“they should at least support Plaid to get your account information and pull it in locally”
“the makers of this particular product don't have a ton of my financial information”
“modals (add account etc) aren't scrollable and cutoff the bottom of my screen”
“I just want to also commend you on the UI/UX here, it looks and feels really solid.”
“this looks really polished, congrats!”
“But I don't think I'm willing to give up fully automated data refreshes at this point.”
“Looks very polished, I'll try it out!”
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