Alternatives to Tiller
A service that feeds bank transactions and balances into your own Google Sheets or Excel spreadsheets. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Tiller
A service that feeds bank transactions and balances into your own Google Sheets or Excel spreadsheets.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Tiller.
Lunch Money
A web-based budgeting and spending tracker with multi-currency support, bank syncing and a developer API.
Lunch Money is a paid web budgeting app with bank syncing, CSV import, a rules engine and a developer API, replacing spreadsheets with its own interface.
Monarch Money
A subscription money app that connects your accounts to track spending, budgets, net worth and goals.
Monarch Money is a paid hosted app that categorizes connected accounts automatically and tracks budgets, net worth and goals, without working inside your own spreadsheets.
PocketSmith
A budgeting and cash-flow forecasting service that projects account balances into the future.
PocketSmith is a freemium web service that connects multiple bank accounts and forecasts future balances, instead of feeding data into Google Sheets or Excel.
YNAB
A subscription budgeting app built around zero-based budgeting, where every dollar is assigned a job.
YNAB is a subscription zero-based budgeting app on Android, iOS and web, trading spreadsheet flexibility for a structured method with extensive learning material.
Quicken Simplifi
A subscription budgeting app from Quicken that tracks spending, savings goals, investments and net worth.
Quicken Simplifi is a paid web app with budgets, savings goals, reports and investment tracking with cost basis, replacing spreadsheet templates with fixed views.
Copilot Money
A paid personal finance app for tracking spending, budgets, investments and net worth on Apple devices and web.
Copilot Money is a paid app for macOS, iOS and web with automatic transaction organisation and investment tracking, but has no Android or Windows app.
Actual Budget
Envelope budgeting that keeps your data on your own device and syncs between machines without a company in the middle.
Actual Budget is free, MIT-licensed, local-first envelope budgeting that syncs through a server you run, with bank connections depending on your country.
Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
Firefly III is a free, self-hosted AGPL finance manager with rules and detailed reports, but you run the PHP app yourself and bank imports need a companion tool.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
hledger
Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
Money Manager Ex
A straightforward personal finance program for accounts, budgets and spending history, storing everything in an encrypted local SQLite file.
Beancount
Plain-text double-entry accounting with a strict, checkable ledger format.
GnuCash
Double-entry accounting for personal and small-business finances.
