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Best open source budget management apps

For managing a budget, a self-hosted stack starts with Actual for personal budgeting, Bigcapital for business accounts and Wallos for subscriptions and investments.

Budgeting apps from the catalog, for households and for businesses. Personal tools such as Actual and Firefly III track spending against a budget; business budgets usually live in accounting software, so the second section lists those.

Updated · data from GitHub, refreshed daily

Top picks

  1. Rank 1:

    Actual

    actualbudget/actual

    Local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, supporting synchronization across devices, custom rules, manual transaction importing (from QIF, OFX, and QFX files), and optional…

    Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026

    Finance & BudgetingTypeScriptDocker

    Stands out for the most GitHub stars. Actual has 29,822 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 1,519 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  2. Rank 2:

    Firefly III

    firefly-iii/firefly-iii

    Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many…

    Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026

    Finance & BudgetingPHPDocker

    Stands out for the most commits in the last 12 months (2,944). Firefly III has 25,020 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,944 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  3. Rank 3:

    Sure

    we-promise/sure

    Personal finance application for everyone (fork of Maybe).

    Active · last commit Oct 28, 2026

    Finance & BudgetingRubyDocker

    Stands out for its Ruby codebase. Sure has 10,707 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,377 commits in the last year.

At a glance

Open source budget management apps compared

Picked by hand for each job from apps whose own description or topics match it, in curated order inside each section, with GitHub data from October 2026; an app appears only once.

Top 10 picks compared, data as of Oct 28, 2026
AppStands out forLicenseGitHub starsCommits (12 mo)Last commitDocker image
Actualthe most GitHub starsMIT29,8221,519Oct 28, 2026Yes
Firefly IIIthe most commits in the last 12 months (2,944)AGPL-3.025,0202,944Oct 28, 2026Yes
Sureits Ruby codebaseAGPL-3.010,7072,377Oct 28, 2026Yes
ezbookkeepinga permissive MIT licenseMIT5,847875Oct 28, 2026Yes
Budget Boardits C# codebaseAGPL-3.0892333Oct 28, 2026Yes
Bigcapital–AGPL-3.03,9701,135Oct 27, 2026Yes
Akaunting–source-available, BSL 1.110,239595Oct 28, 2026No
hledger–GPL-3.04,7982,368Oct 28, 2026Yes
Fava–MIT2,596235Oct 25, 2026No
ERPNext–GPL-3.040,68710,424Oct 28, 2026Yes

1 of 3 · 5 picks

Personal and household budgeting

  1. 1

    Actual

    Local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, supporting synchronization across devices, custom rules, manual transaction importing (from QIF, OFX, and QFX files), and optional…

    Stands out for the most GitHub stars. Actual has 29,822 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 1,519 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  2. 2

    Firefly III

    Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many…

    Stands out for the most commits in the last 12 months (2,944). Firefly III has 25,020 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,944 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  3. 3

    Sure

    Personal finance application for everyone (fork of Maybe).

    Stands out for its Ruby codebase. Sure has 10,707 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,377 commits in the last year.

  4. 4

    ezbookkeeping

    A lightweight personal bookkeeping app hosted by yourself.

    Stands out for a permissive MIT license. ezbookkeeping has 5,847 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 875 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB.

  5. 5

    Budget Board

    Simple app for tracking monthly spending and working towards financial goals.

    Stands out for its C# codebase. Budget Board has 892 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 333 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

2 of 3 · 5 picks

Business budgeting and accounting

  1. 1

    Bigcapital

    Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.

    Bigcapital has 3,970 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,135 commits in the last year; it replaces QuickBooks and Xero.

  2. 2

    Akaunting

    Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.

    Akaunting has 10,239 GitHub stars, is source-available under the BSL 1.1 (not an open-source license) and had 595 commits in the last year; it replaces QuickBooks and Xero.

  3. 3

    hledger

    Plain text double-entry accounting with command-line, terminal and web interfaces, multi-currency support and CSV import.

    hledger has 4,798 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,368 commits in the last year.

  4. 4

    Fava

    Web frontend of Beancount, a text based double-entry accounting system.

    Fava has 2,596 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license and had 235 commits in the last year.

  5. 5

    ERPNext

    ERP system to help you run your business.

    ERPNext has 40,687 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 10,424 commits in the last year; it replaces NetSuite and SAP Business One.

3 of 3 · 2 picks

Subscriptions and investments

  1. 1

    Wallos

    Lightweight personal subscription tracker with statistics and optional notifications.

    Wallos has 8,756 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 195 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  2. 2

    Ghostfolio

    Wealth management software to keep track of stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies.

    Ghostfolio has 9,593 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,711 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

FAQ

Questions and answers

Still curious? Email info@appsgit.com.

Is there a self-hosted YNAB alternative?

Actual is a local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, the method YNAB uses. Firefly III also supports budgets and forecasts.

Can these apps connect to my bank?

Some can import bank exports (CSV, OFX) and some support bank sync through third-party services in certain countries. Check each project's documentation for your bank and region.

Is Actual free?

Yes. Actual is open-source software released under the MIT license, so you can self-host it at no cost. You only pay for the server it runs on, and some projects also offer an optional paid cloud plan.

Can I run this stack with Docker?

10 of the 12 apps here publish Docker images, including Actual, Firefly III and Sure, so most of the stack can run side by side with Docker Compose on one server. Size the server for the heaviest app and add off-site backups.

How is this list ranked?

Picked by hand for each job from apps whose own description or topics match it, in curated order inside each section, with GitHub data from October 2026; an app appears only once.

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