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Wealthfolio

Private, open-source investment tracker and personal finance app.

Wealthfolio news & updates

  • Encrypting Wealthfolio: Keys, Backups, and Recovery

    What it takes to encrypt a local SQLite database without making it harder to own your data. The keys, backups, temporary files, and recovery work behind a simple setting.

    Wealthfolio Blog7 min read
  • AI in Wealthfolio

    Ask questions about your portfolio, review suggested spending categories, or connect your own AI agent through MCP. How AI works in Wealthfolio, what it can change, and where your data goes.

    Wealthfolio Blog6 min read
  • Bring Your Own Price Feed

    Wealthfolio lets you point it at any URL that returns a price and describe how to read it, so the mutual funds and regional listings the big providers ignore still get tracked. No code, no waiting for an integration.

    Wealthfolio Blog7 min read
  • Spending and Budgets, Now in Wealthfolio

    A complete new way to see your cash flow, right alongside your investments. Auto-categorize transactions, build budgets that fit you, mark life events, and read narrative insights, all local-first.

    Wealthfolio Blog4 min read
  • TWR vs MWR: Understanding Your Portfolio Returns

    Time-weighted and money-weighted returns answer different questions. A worked example, how Wealthfolio calculates TWR and XIRR, and what to check when the numbers disagree.

    Wealthfolio Blog8 min read
  • Local-first and the SQLite Bet

    Why Wealthfolio's portfolio lives in a SQLite file on your machine instead of a cloud database, and what that decision cost us to make work.

    Wealthfolio Blog8 min read
  • On Losing the Thread

    The hardest thing about building an open source app is staying connected to your own work. A reflection on how maker becomes maintainer, and why protecting the space to build from a personal place matters.

    Wealthfolio Blog2 min read
  • Introducing Wealthfolio Add-ons

    Opening Wealthfolio to add-ons: a safe, scoped way to build and share custom features while the core stays fast, private, and uncluttered.

    Wealthfolio Blog6 min read
  • How I Built an Open Source App That Went Viral

    In September 2024, my side project Wealthfolio, a simple, open-source desktop investment tracker I built over the summer, unexpectedly went viral, reaching the front page of Hacker News and GitHub's trending list. Here's how this small and elegant app captured the attention of thousands.

    Wealthfolio Blog3 min read
  • Wealthfolio Manifesto

    I built Wealthfolio out of necessity because, honestly, I couldn’t find a decent desktop investment tracker that wasn’t a total mess. Everything out there was ridiculously complicated, stuffed with unnecessary features, and required uploading my financial data to someone else’s servers, usually for…

    Wealthfolio Blog3 min read

Details are compiled from Wealthfolio's website and public sources, last verified Oct 6, 2026. Features and pricing change — confirm on the official site before you buy.

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