For Windows, Whalebird is your go-to since it's in the MS Store. Most of the stuff I've found online as suggestions for Windows are web apps like https://pinafore.social/ or https://elk.zone. Personally, I just use the advanced web view. I need the columns. Source: over 1 year ago

Which instance are you on? Mastodon is decentralized, there may be servers that are overloaded whereas other are fast. Like email. I haven't noticed any big differences in speed, I use both Mastodon for iOS and Pinafore (https://pinafore.social/ ), a PWA. Just add it to your homescreen and it will behave like a native app (and sometime in 2023 Apple has said they will add push notifications to PWAs). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I continue to see people stumble at mastodon resource requirements when setting up their instance, but I fail to understand why everyone is going for a mastodon instance for their personal use. I am running https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial on a micro instance, probably using 100M ram, with a 30M sqlite database. True, I don't have all features. It is pure backend, but I can use... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I use https://pinafore.social on windows fine. Source: over 1 year ago

There are web frontends available where you can sign into your instance, just like you so with a mobile app. For example https://pinafore.social/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

I use Actual budget. It’s open source, free, but you’ll have to figure out hosting. Bank sync is currently provided in North America by SimpleFin ($15/year) And in Europe by GoCardless I host mine in a Docker container on my NAS. [1] https://actualbudget.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

If you are tech-savvy then maybe https://actualbudget.com/ - similar to YNAB, but free & open-source. Source: 7 months ago

Looks visually quite similar to https://actualbudget.com/ (open-source, local-first). Did one influence the other? Are they both inspired by some other budget software? - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

I use https://actualbudget.com/ locally. You have to import your transactions yourself and it's all local. Source: about 1 year ago

If you have the ability to selfhost, Actual budget has been my go to for budgeting. I just input bank transactions usually weekly and assign the transaction to it's appropriate category. Source: about 1 year ago