Ditch QuickBooks: Take Back Control with Firefly III - FTK 3

Welcome to Freedom Tech Weekend — your weekly dose of open-source tech you can run yourself. In this episode, we explore Firefly III, a powerful, privacy-first alternative to tools like QuickBooks and YNAB. This open-source, self-hosted personal finance app gives you full control over your financial data with no monthly fees and no data harvesting. We walk through setup, features like transaction importing, budgeting, piggy banks (goal tracking), API usage, and how Firefly III stacks up against proprietary platforms like Intuit's QuickBooks. If you’re tired of subscription bloat and privacy invasions, Firefly III might be the finance tool for you. 🔗 Firefly III: https://firefly-iii.org We also demo Maple AI, a confidential AI assistant that helps answer questions privately with zero data logging. 🔗 Try it free at https://trymaple.ai 📡 Follow\ X/Twitter: @marks_ftw\ Nostr: marks@primal.net\ Watch episodes on the Freedom Tech Weekend playlist Let’s migrate off closed systems — one tool at a time.