I make recurring payments that require exchange. I’m absolutely not financially savvy. I’m good at managing my personal budget but when it comes to financial jargon and market know hows I’m a dummy.
I’m looking for some kind of tool that helps me monitor exchange rates and sends me alerts. I’m hoping to make the payments in as much of a favorable window as possible.
I tried installing Revolut but I’m not going to use it (I can only make the payments with Western Union) and I found all the data they requested just too much for nothing.
I hope you Lemmies can recommend a FOSS app for this? Or at least something privacy friendly? Remember I’m not using it to pay, just to monitor.
TIA
Not FOSS, but XE is what I use for currency exchange
Sounds like they need my phone, address, name, etc. which I’m trying to avoid. I just want to monitor. I don’t want the app to transfer or exchange money.
I don’t have an account there, I only use the app when I need to know what are the rates at that moment.
Ok that’s good info, thanks!
I am used to XE just because I’ve used it since, like, forever. I just uninstalled and see if this app Currencies fits the bill.
check if their website is okay. privacy wise it’s much better to use a webpage than an app
Gnu units does unit conversion. Also seems to have currency. It’s a command line tool though
https://www.gnu.org/software//units/manual/html_node/Currency.html
The problen here is, who do you want as a source of truth on the currency rate?
Does that matter? Is there such a huge discrepancy?
how often do you need to check?
depends on the purpose
I guess for your use case not really
