A personal finance tool earns trust when its balances reconcile with your statements. Skrooge supports transaction import, categories, scheduled operations, and reports. Test it with a sanitized month of finances rather than a blank dashboard.

Import transactions in the format your bank actually provides. Check duplicate detection, payee cleanup, transfers between accounts, refunds, and multi-currency transactions if relevant. Categorize a few recurring expenses, then compare totals with the original statement. Review Skrooge's feature guide for current import and export options.

Back up the database, restore it elsewhere, and export the cleaned transactions. Compare alternatives on how many manual corrections each import requires, not just chart style. Treat real finance files as sensitive and avoid uploading them to unknown services during a trial.