Every unit of income gets a job in Actual Budget - a local-first personal finance app built on envelope (zero-sum) budgeting, where you can only budget cash you actually have, which keeps the plan honest by construction. The data model is a SQLite file that lives on your device and works fully offline; the self-hosted Node.js sync server adds background multi-device synchronization using CRDT-based distributed-systems machinery, browser and mobile access as an installable web app, and automated backups. Optional end-to-end encryption makes the synced data unreadable even to the server hosting it. Transactions enter three ways: manual entry, file import (CSV, QIF, OFX, QFX, CAMT.053), or automatic bank syncing through GoCardless for EU/UK banks and SimpleFIN for US/Canada. Built-in YNAB4 and nYNAB importers migrate complete budget histories, and reports, schedules for recurring transactions, and rule-based transaction cleanup handle the day-to-day. A fully featured local API lets developers script custom importers and automation against their own data. 100% free, open source, and 26k stars strong.

Allocating every incoming dollar into purposeful spending and savings buckets before transactions occur, OpenBudgeteer gives households complete financial control through a self-hosted zero-based envelope budgeting platform. Users can organize expenditures into customizable bucket hierarchies, grouping everyday living costs, debt repayments, and sinking funds into distinct categories with target balances. Financial planners can import bank statement files via flexible CSV mapping profiles that parse transaction descriptions, clean up merchant strings, and auto-assign records to corresponding expense buckets. The transaction registry provides split-transaction functionality, allowing shoppers to divide a single department store receipt across grocery, household, and clothing envelopes with exact currency precision. Interactive progress bars display bucket health throughout the billing month, signaling when spending velocity threatens allocated limits and calculating suggested contributions for forthcoming paychecks. Advanced forecasting reports plot multi-month net worth trajectories, track category expenditure patterns, and calculate burn rates against long-term retirement and emergency savings goals. Account balances synchronize across multiple physical checking accounts, credit cards, and cash wallets, ensuring total bucket balances reconcile perfectly against real bank reserves. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL v3 licensed.

After the bills are covered, how much is actually safe to spend? monetr organizes an entire budgeting application around that one question. Inspired by the defunct Simple bank, it budgets paycheck by paycheck rather than month by month. Funding schedules encode when you get paid - including multiple schedules per account and a weekend-exclusion option for deposits that land early - and every expense or savings goal is tied to one. monetr then calculates how much of each recurring obligation (rent, car payment, subscriptions, on any repeat interval) to set aside from each paycheck, so a large bill never has to come out of a single check. What remains after allocations is surfaced as Free-To-Use, and a forecasting timeline projects contributions, due dates, and leftover funds forward so low-balance periods are visible before they happen. Transactions arrive either as OFX uploads from your bank or automatically through a Plaid connection using your own API credentials, keeping balances and transactions synced without manual entry. The app is mobile-friendly and installable as a PWA on desktop or phone. Self-hosting via Docker Compose is completely free, with all source code public and your financial data on your own hardware.

Securo is a privacy-first personal finance platform that keeps all your financial data in your own PostgreSQL instance while connecting to 2,500+ banks across three continents for automated transaction sync. The FastAPI backend with React/TypeScript frontend deploys via Docker Compose on ports 3000 and 8000, with Redis-backed Celery workers handling background synchronization. Bank connections span approximately 2,500 European PSD2 institutions through Enable Banking across 29 countries, US and international banks via SimpleFIN's open protocol, and Brazilian banks through Pluggy, all refreshing automatically every four hours. Multi-account management tracks checking, savings, credit cards, and investments with running balances. The auto-categorization rules engine applies pattern-matching across merchants and amounts. Goal tracking monitors savings targets with progress visualization, asset management handles stocks and custom instruments with configurable valuation growth rules, and reports generate Net Worth and Income vs Expenses charts with category sparklines. Optional AI Agents provide LLM chat with tool-use over your financial data through MCP, supporting OpenAI, Anthropic, Ollama, and compatible providers with per-agent RAG knowledge bases accessible via a global command palette. Multi-user support includes OIDC login, passkey authentication, TOTP two-factor, privacy mode, and multi-currency FX conversion via Open Exchange Rates. 1,500+ stars since March 2026. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

PayMe is a privacy-first personal finance dashboard that runs entirely on your own hardware with zero third-party service dependencies. The Rust backend compiled to a single binary serves a React 19 frontend built with Vite, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS 4, storing all financial data in a local SQLite database that auto-migrates on startup. Monthly dashboards track income entries, fixed expenses like mortgage and utilities, and budget categories with real-time progress bars showing spending against configurable limits. The savings module includes goal tracking with percentage-based progress indicators, custom savings goals for targeted objectives, retirement savings projections with breakdown analysis, and projected savings calculations. Variance analysis compares actual spending against budgets across categories. Drag-and-drop reordering powered by dnd-kit lets you arrange income sources, expenses, and budget items to match your workflow. The interactive charts rendered by Recharts visualize spending trends, income patterns, and savings trajectories. Month-by-month navigation tracks financial history over time, while the Summary and Stats views aggregate data across periods. JWT-based authentication secures access, and the full OpenAPI Swagger documentation at the /swagger-ui endpoint exposes every API route for automation and integration. Docker Compose deployment creates a minimal image with the compiled Rust binary and static frontend assets, running on port 3001 behind nginx, Caddy, or Traefik reverse proxy with HTTPS. On RepoCloud, deploy PayMe on a dedicated VPS with persistent SQLite storage, root SSH access, and complete privacy over your household financial data, all under the MIT license.

Started as an ExpenseOwl-inspired project, Wally grew into a lightweight, self-hosted expense tracker more capable in every direction its author touched. The backend is Python FastAPI over SQLite, which means every deployment ships a full REST API with interactive documentation at /api/docs - automating imports or wiring in external tools requires no reverse engineering, and when the optional login page is enabled you can mint scoped API keys from the Settings page for token-based integrations. The transactions view is built on AG Grid, bringing real search, column sorting, and per-column filtering to your ledger, with a footer totaling rows, income, and expenses for whatever slice you have filtered. Dashboards go beyond the usual monthly doughnut: a Change button swaps in year-scale line graphs so you can track a single category - restaurants, say - across time. Recurring transactions edit intelligently, letting you apply changes to all instances or only future ones. CSV import and export use a simple six-column format handled from Settings, the refined dark theme is genuinely easy on the eyes, and the interface is translated into more than ten languages. The whole thing runs from one small container with a single data volume.

With over 24,000 GitHub stars and active development since 2014, Firefly III is the self-hosted personal finance manager that gives you complete control over your financial data without ever contacting external servers. The double-entry bookkeeping system tracks every transaction with source and destination accounts, ensuring accurate balance calculations and audit trails across checking, savings, credit card, cash, and asset accounts. Budget management sets monthly spending limits by category with visual progress tracking and rollover support for unused allocations. Rule-based transaction automation applies categorization, tags, and budget assignments automatically based on configurable conditions matching description, amount, source, and destination patterns. Recurring transactions schedule regular bills, subscriptions, and income entries with automatic creation on configured dates. Piggy banks divide savings accounts into virtual sub-accounts for goal tracking with target amounts and deadlines. Financial reports include income versus expense summaries, budget performance charts, category breakdowns, tag reports, and net worth tracking with weekly, monthly, and yearly time ranges. Multi-currency support handles any currency with configurable exchange rates for international finance tracking. The REST JSON API covers nearly every feature for integration with external tools, import utilities, and the companion Firefly III Data Importer for bank statement processing. Two-factor authentication provides account security. Self-hosting deploys via Docker containers or directly on PHP 8.5+ with MySQL or PostgreSQL. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Ocular provides a modern personal finance workspace that plots your household income and expenditures across multi-year horizons to eliminate surprises in annual budgeting. Users can define custom income streams, configure recurring fixed obligations like rent and utilities, and allocate discretionary spending allowances into designated category groups. Interactive Sankey diagrams and cumulative balance curves visualize projected net savings trajectories, signaling upcoming cash crunches months in advance. The annual planning matrix breaks down monthly figures across twelve periods, calculates automatic net savings, and highlights active fiscal cycles. Keyboard shortcuts accelerate data entry with inline arithmetic expression evaluation directly inside currency cells. Built-in multi-currency conversion and localization settings allow international households and remote professionals to manage diverse revenue streams effortlessly. A dedicated privacy mode masks sensitive monetary amounts when working in public spaces, while complete ledgers export cleanly as portable JSON archives. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Managing household finances and personal investments becomes completely private with ezBookkeeping, a self-hosted accounting platform that combines multi-currency ledger tracking, automated bank imports, and AI-assisted receipt analysis into a responsive financial dashboard. Users can record daily income, expenses, and asset transfers using hierarchical two-level accounts and customizable tags, attaching photographic receipts and geographic location coordinates to individual entries. The automated data ingestion engine processes bank statements across standardized CSV, OFX, QIF, CAMT, and MT940 files, applying user-defined column mappings and custom conversion scripts to eliminate manual bookkeeping. Financial planners can schedule recurring bills, configure monthly category spending limits, and track asset distribution with interactive charts, trend graphs, and activity heatmaps in the Insight Explorer. Integrated artificial intelligence tools scan uploaded invoice photos to extract line items automatically while a native Model Context Protocol server lets external desktop assistants query balances and audit budgets safely. Security features include time-based two-factor authentication, single sign-on via standard identity providers, and biometric passkey screen locks that secure private monetary ledgers on shared computers. Account owners can export full audit histories to portable spreadsheets, manage multi-currency exchange rate tables, and access clean web interfaces on both desktop monitors and mobile devices. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Log a date, amount, and category; get a clean monthly pie chart and a cashflow strip showing income, expenses, and net balance - ExpenseOwl is expense tracking stripped to what actually matters. The MIT-licensed Go application deliberately is not a budgeting system - no envelopes, no accounts, no double-entry, no bank sync - because its author found tools like Firefly III and Actual too heavy for the simple question "where did this month's money go?" The dashboard makes that question fast: click a pie slice to exclude fixed costs like rent and see discretionary spending clearly, then drill into a chronological table view to inspect or delete individual transactions. Recurring transactions handle salaries and subscriptions automatically, optional tags add a second classification axis, and settings cover custom categories, currency symbol, and a configurable month start date for non-calendar pay cycles. CSV import migrates data from virtually any other tool, and CSV export keeps your data portable. It ships as a self-contained binary and multi-architecture Docker image with zero internet interaction, stores data in flat JSON files by default (PostgreSQL optional), and installs as a PWA on phones. Single-user by design; pair it with an authenticating reverse proxy if exposed publicly.

Roughly $1M of development work, open-sourced: Maybe Finance began as a $249/year commercial personal finance product before the company released it all. It aggregates bank accounts, credit cards, loans, investments, crypto, and real estate into a single net worth dashboard with historical trend charts - replacing the spreadsheet that usually glues a whole portfolio together. Transactions are categorized and tagged with rules, with merchant tracking and search across imported or synced activity; budgets track spending by category against plan; and the investment view follows holdings, cost basis, and returns across brokerage accounts. Multi-currency support converts accounts held in different currencies into a single reporting currency, bank synchronization works through Plaid where supported, and manual CSV import covers any institution. An optional AI assistant answers questions grounded in your own financial data. Because the app was built as a paid product with professional design before being open-sourced, its interface quality exceeds most community finance tools - and self-hosting means your balances and transactions are not monetized by a free app or gated behind an annual subscription. The stack is Ruby on Rails with Hotwire on PostgreSQL, licensed AGPL-3.0 and deployed via Docker. The original repository is archived; development continues in the community fork Sure, compatible with the same self-hosted setup.

"Stupid simple software" is the entire philosophy at DumbWare.io, and DumbBudget delivers it: no over-engineering, no complexity, no accounts, no bank connections - just a clean, modern ledger for money in and money out. Log income and expenses, assign categories, and watch real-time balance calculations update as you type. Finding transactions is quick: filter by type, narrow by date range, sort by date or amount. When tax season or spreadsheet analysis calls, everything exports to CSV. Access control matches the philosophy - a single PIN (set via one environment variable) gates the app, backed by real security engineering: rate limiting on PIN attempts, temporary lockout after failures, secure session handling, and no sensitive data in browser storage. Multi-currency support covers the ISO codes, and a SITE_TITLE variable names each instance - deliberately useful, because running separate instances per account or family member is the intended pattern for multi-user needs. The responsive UI ships light and dark themes and installs as a PWA on phones, where expense logging actually happens. Configuration is five environment variables; data persists in one folder. If Actual Budget and Firefly III feel like accounting software, this is the notepad that gets used. GPL-licensed.

Track income, recurring expenses, and multi-currency assets with WYGIWYH, a self-hosted personal finance platform built on a strict cash-flow principle that preserves monthly savings while exposing spending patterns. Users can aggregate holdings across checking accounts, physical cash reserves, crypto wallets, and custom asset models with automatic foreign exchange rate calculations. The transaction engine executes automated adjustment rules to normalize merchant names, apply category tags, and calculate split costs on every purchase. Investors can schedule dollar-cost averaging portfolios to monitor accumulation performance and price averages over extended investment horizons. Interactive dashboards provide monthly breakdown grids, calendar views of pending recurring bills, and multi-year net worth trajectories. Financial analysts can export transaction journals to CSV, automate data synchronization through REST webhooks, or query accounts with AI agents via the Model Context Protocol. Customizable notification triggers alert account owners to payment due dates and anomalous spending spikes across monitored accounts. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GNU AGPL v3.0 licensed.

Consolidate daily to-do lists, encrypted passwords, household spending, contacts, and family photo galleries into Personal Management System, a self-hosted private command center for everyday life. Individuals can organize recurring schedules and calendar milestones with proactive notification alerts so important appointments, vehicle servicing dates, and recurring bill renewals are never overlooked. Users can balance household budgets and track expenditure across custom spending categories, calculating monthly cash flow balances while monitoring debts owed to friends or family members. Privacy-conscious users can safeguard account credentials inside an encrypted password vault featuring quick-copy buttons and secondary lock protection for sensitive personal entries. Goal setters can track multi-step personal targets and link financial milestones directly to dedicated savings pools. Home organizers can catalog contacts, log travel destinations with mapped imagery, and maintain categorized notes containing voice memos, bookmarks, and reference materials. Collectors can sort family photos and video recordings into interactive masonry galleries with built-in lightbox previews and file download tools. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.