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?
I pay roughly once a month, but I have some flexibility with when I pay so I don’t know? A couple times a month?
are you ok with disclosing your e-mail to the rates provider?
I’d rather not. Like others said, there are websites which already present this information available for anyone, so my hopes were in finding some app that just presented data for you without the need for an account or else.
But you still want to be able to be notified upon the currency rate surpassing the threshold you set?
