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Can AI replace Finary?

The dashboard half of Finary is a weekend project: a table of holdings, a price fetcher, a few charts, a history table so you can see net worth over time. The hard half is the plumbing, connecting to hundreds of European banks and brokers through PSD2 aggregators, which needs either a licensed provider or a lot of scraping you do not want to maintain. You can get most of the way with CSV imports from your broker plus public price APIs for equities and crypto, refreshed on a cron. That gets you honest numbers with a monthly chore attached. If the chore is the reason you were paying, this is not a replacement.

Verdict: Half-bot · AI gets you partway; the hard part stays hardBuild time: a weekend

Replacing a paid app means you set it up and keep it running: hosting, updates and backups can be on you. What you give up.

Half-bot

01What it costs

$14.50/moFinary Plus, monthly, billed annually
$174per year at that price

Checked Aug 18, 2026 · source: finary.com.

02Could AI build it for you?

The core job: A local dashboard that tracks manually entered or CSV imported holdings, refreshes prices from public APIs, and charts net worth and allocation over time.

What a working version needs:

  • Node 20 and a machine that can run a cron job or scheduled task
  • CSV exports or manual entry for each account you hold
  • A free crypto price API key and a source for equity and ETF quotes
  • Manual valuations for illiquid assets like property

The dashboard is trivial; the bank connectors are a regulated business with a support queue.

03What you'd give up

  • Automatic bank and broker sync across hundreds of institutions
  • Mobile apps with push updates and Face ID
  • Automated real estate valuation estimates and loan tracking
  • Benchmarking against other users and the community and content layer
  • Someone else fixing the connector the day your bank changes its API

Because nobody actually keeps a spreadsheet updated for two years. Finary's pitch is that you connect once and then your net worth is just correct every morning, including the accounts you forget about, and that only works if someone maintains regulated connections to your specific bank in your specific country. The DIY build is honest and private and free, but it asks you for fifteen minutes of CSV wrangling a month, and most people quietly stop doing that around month three.

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04The build prompt

Get the Build Kit for Finary

The complete build prompt, plus 11 step-by-step prompts from research to launch, a design system file, a page-by-page spec, the data model and a launch checklist.

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One-time payment. Delivered on screen and by email.

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