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kevinschaich/mintable
🍃 Automate your personal finances – for free, with no ads, and no data collection.
Mintable is a CLI tool that pulls transactions from Plaid or CSV bank statements and writes them to Google Sheets or local CSV files. It's a self-hosted replacement for Mint.com aimed at developers who want bank data in a spreadsheet without handing it to a third-party service. Setup is manual and technical; this is not for non-developers.
The integration model is clean — Plaid, CSV import, Google Sheets, and CSV export are each isolated modules with a consistent interface, so adding a new source or sink is straightforward. GitHub Actions support for scheduled fetching means zero infrastructure beyond the repo itself. CSV import with bank-specific templates (Chase, Amex, Apple Card) is genuinely useful for people who can't or won't use Plaid. No backend, no account, no subscription — your credentials stay in your own environment.
Last commit is October 2023 and the project looks effectively unmaintained — Plaid's API and Google Sheets OAuth scopes both drift, and a stale auth integration is a real operational risk. Windows isn't officially supported, which eliminates a big chunk of the target audience. US-only by default for Plaid; international users have to fork and patch country codes manually. The config is a flat JSON file with no schema validation, so a typo silently breaks the fetch rather than erroring early.