Finance and accounting
currency-converter alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
lineofflight/frankfurter💱 Currency data API — public currency rates API usable for conversionsOpen on GitHub ↗florianv/swapPHP currency conversion library for retrieving exchange rates from many providers, with caching and fallbackOpen on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Native App Store distribution (push notifications, native widgets)
- In-app purchases and App Store integrated billing
- Polished mobile-native UX and platform-specific integrations
- Any proprietary rate sources the app may use
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches currency-converter, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.