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You're totally right, I can't imagine giving access to my bank accounts either. That's why I chose to manually enter the expenses. Yes, you have to think about it every time, but I bet on the fact that it takes only a few seconds to add an expense in my app.

Unfortunately, I'm not able to find a better solution yet but maybe one day we'll find one !

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I had this idea to basically have the Budgeting app look at the notifications on my phone or emails from the bank to parse the transactions details automatically.

On iOS if an app exposes a Shortcut, I could setup a Shortcut Automation to automatically add an expense when a new email from my bank shows up. Would need some REGEX or LLM ;)

Great idea ! Would need some investigation but should be doable

you can do this with tasker on android. read whatever text is in the notification and then use the http command to send on the information if theres an API, or even use the autoinput plugin to open the app and tap on certain elements, but thats kind of messy

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