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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. Each pick was chosen by hand for its job and is shown with GitHub data from October 2026.

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 nightly

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…

    Finance & BudgetingTypeScriptDocker

    Actual has 29,330 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 1,392 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…

    Finance & BudgetingPHPDocker

    Firefly III has 24,832 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,574 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).

    Finance & BudgetingRubyDocker

    Sure has 10,402 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,851 commits in the last year.

1 of 3 · 6 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…

    Actual has 29,330 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 1,392 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…

    Firefly III has 24,832 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 2,574 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  3. 3

    Sure

    Personal finance application for everyone (fork of Maybe).

    Sure has 10,402 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,851 commits in the last year.

  4. 4

    ezbookkeeping

    A lightweight personal bookkeeping app hosted by yourself.

    ezbookkeeping has 5,718 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and had 827 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB.

  5. 5

    Budget Board

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

    Budget Board has 886 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 146 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

  6. 6

    ExpenseOwl

    Extremely simple expense tracker with a beautiful UI.

    ExpenseOwl has 1,522 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license, ships a Docker image and was last updated in October 2025.

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 3,921 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,005 commits in the last year; it replaces QuickBooks and Xero.

  2. 2

    Akaunting

    Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.

    Akaunting has 10,159 GitHub stars, is source-available under the BSL 1.1 (not an open-source license) and had 518 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 4,746 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,992 commits in the last year.

  4. 4

    Fava

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

    Fava has 2,584 GitHub stars, uses the MIT license and had 198 commits in the last year.

  5. 5

    ERPNext

    ERP system to help you run your business.

    ERPNext has 39,821 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 6,664 commits in the last year; it replaces QuickBooks and Square POS.

3 of 3 · 2 picks

Subscriptions and investments

  1. 1

    Wallos

    Lightweight personal subscription tracker with statistics and optional notifications.

    Wallos has 8,634 GitHub stars, uses the GPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 155 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 9,402 GitHub stars, uses the AGPL-3.0 license, ships a Docker image and had 1,449 commits in the last year; it replaces YNAB and Mint.

FAQ

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What is the best open source budget management app?

For managing a budget, a self-hosted stack starts with Actual for personal budgeting, Bigcapital for business accounts and Wallos for subscriptions and investments. Each pick was chosen by hand for its job and is shown with GitHub data from October 2026.

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?

11 of the 13 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.

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