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Gnucash. Not that hard to learn and use, free, libre, and pretty solid community support. It's served me really well for several years including some changes in my financial situation and complexity.

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I switched from YNAB to Gnucash and I am very happy with it. I even wrote a couple of scripts to convert Shift JIS encoded csvs to work with Gnucash transaction import. I have an accounting routine that I run through every month and import everything from dozens of bank accounts.

The community is also very nice and they were very accommodating towards my bug reports and fixed them very quickly (it had something to do with IME not working well on macOS).

You're also making a great point about Gnucash: We're both using it differently, but it works well for us. That kind of flexibility is golden.

Is there enough integrations ready (like to autoimport from banks) or does everything need to be "coded in" whenever required?

It has a pretty thorough feature set baked in and extra scripts and coding shouldn't be needed. It can fetch balances and transactions directly from your banks, though I need to check if that's automatically run or manually triggered.

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