Finance
2 open source tools compared. Sorted by stars — scroll down for our analysis.
| Tool | Stars | Velocity | Language | License | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 App Welcome to New Expensify: a complete re-imagination of financial collaboration, centered around chat. Help us build the next generation of Expensify by sharing feedback and contributing to the code. | 4.8k | — | TypeScript | MIT License | 70 |
| 2.3k | — | Python | Apache License 2.0 | 72 |
Our Analysis
New Expensify is a ground-up rewrite of the expense management platform, built as a React Native app that runs on iOS, Android, web, and desktop from a single codebase. It handles expense reports, receipt scanning, corporate card management, invoicing, and bill pay. The open source angle is interesting - Expensify publishes their entire client app on GitHub, which is rare for a fintech company. But this is not a tool you self-host. It is the client for Expensify's paid service. Contributing is encouraged but the product only works with Expensify's backend. Alternatives like Fiskl and Budget Zen exist for personal expense tracking, but for corporate expense management the real competitors are SAP Concur, Brex, and Ramp. The catch: open source client, closed source backend. You cannot run your own Expensify. This is transparency, not freedom.
TurboQuant Plus is a quantitative trading platform. If you are building trading strategies and backtesting them, this gives you the framework. Python-based with support for multiple data sources and strategy templates. The catch: documentation and community are primarily in Chinese, and quantitative trading tools require significant domain expertise to use effectively.