yourfinance

How to install

Installing yourfinance on Windows

Two ways: the Microsoft Store, which signs the app and keeps it up to date, and the direct zip from this site, which also has the broker connectors. The download page links both.

Microsoft Store

  1. Open the yourfinance listing in the Microsoft Store and press Get. No Microsoft account is needed for a free app.
  2. Launch from the Start menu. The Store signs the package, so Windows shows no warning and updates arrive through the Store.
  3. The first launch without a key starts the 10-day free trial. Paste the key from your purchase e-mail in Settings → Licence, or click the yourfinance://activate link in that e-mail; Windows asks once which app should open such links.

The Store edition leaves out the broker and exchange connectors; the zip has them. A Beginner or Pro key works in either.

Direct zip

  1. Download the zip and compare its SHA-256 with the download page: in PowerShell, Get-FileHash .\yourfinance-*.zip -Algorithm SHA256.
  2. Right-click the zip → Extract All into a folder you keep, for example C:\Users\you\yourfinance. Do not run it from inside the zip.
  3. Run yourfinance.exe. The zip is not code-signed, so what Windows does depends on its protection settings. It may show “Windows protected your PC” (SmartScreen): choose More info, then Run anyway; a new version's download can ask again. Where Smart App Control is on (Windows Security → App & browser control), Windows blocks the zip and offers no way to run it: install the Microsoft Store edition there.
  4. The first launch without a key starts the 10-day free trial, full features, then read-only until you buy, with a sample workspace. Paste the key from your purchase e-mail in Settings → Licence.
  5. Optional: to make the yourfinance://activate link in that e-mail open the app, run yourfinance.exe --register-url-scheme once from that folder. It writes one key under your own user profile; no administrator rights.
  6. To update, unzip the new version into a folder of its own and open it once: it points that link at itself (if you registered it), and your records stay where they are. Then delete the old folder.

Requirements

  • Windows 10 (version 1809 or later) or Windows 11, 64-bit.
  • The Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime, which draws the app's window. Windows 11 includes it. On Windows 10 without it, the Store version installs it on first launch (one download from Microsoft, the only network call it makes on its own); the zip does not carry that installer, so yourfinance tells you where to get it from Microsoft and you open it again afterwards.

Where your records live

%APPDATA%\yourfinance, never beside the executable, so moving or deleting the folder you extracted keeps your records.

The Microsoft Store edition is different: Windows keeps a Store app's records in the app's own storage and removes them when the app is uninstalled. Before you uninstall it, or reinstall it to fix a problem, use Export backup in Settings and keep the .zip somewhere else.

Removing yourfinance

  • If you installed the daily schedule, press Remove schedule in Settings, under notifications, before you delete anything; it removes its Task Scheduler entry.
  • If you ran --register-url-scheme, remove that one key with reg delete HKCU\Software\Classes\yourfinance /f.
  • Then delete the folder you extracted. Your records stay in %APPDATA%\yourfinance until you delete that folder too.

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