With 6,600+ GitHub stars and created by vas3k — one of the indie developer community's most recognized builders — TaxHacker is the self-hosted AI accounting application that turns receipt chaos into structured financial intelligence without surrendering a single document to third-party cloud services. Upload photos of receipts, invoices, or PDF bank statements, and the LLM pipeline automatically extracts dates, merchants, amounts, line items, tax breakdowns, and vendor information into an Excel-like structured database with custom fields you define through your own AI prompts. Currency handling covers 170+ fiat currencies and 14 cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, LTC, and more) with automatic conversion using historical exchange rates from the actual transaction date — critical for international freelancers filing in one reporting currency. The AI layer supports OpenAI (GPT-4o, GPT-4.1-mini), Google Gemini, Mistral, or fully local models via Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM, and LocalAI through OpenAI-compatible endpoints for complete air-gapped deployments. Features include multi-project workspace isolation, custom categories with AI-driven auto-classification, bulk document upload with batch processing, email server monitoring for automated attachment ingestion, flexible CSV export with attached documents, and comprehensive tax report generation. The tech stack runs Next.js 15+ for the frontend and tRPC API, Prisma ORM for database models and migrations, PostgreSQL 17+ for persistence, and Ghostscript plus GraphicsMagick for PDF rendering. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

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.

Full double-entry accounting on your own server: Manager.io Server Edition runs the same engine as the free desktop edition as a web server, so unlimited users work in unlimited businesses concurrently, with all books on infrastructure you control. The module coverage is genuinely comprehensive - general ledger with a customizable chart of accounts, sales and purchase invoices, quotes and orders, bank and cash account reconciliation, inventory with stock tracking, fixed assets with depreciation, payroll, multi-currency with exchange gains and losses, tax codes for VAT and GST regimes, and the complete reporting stack: balance sheet, profit and loss, trial balance, aged receivables and payables, and cash flow statements. The interface is translated into more than seventy languages, reflecting a genuinely global user base. The licensing model is the refreshing part: a server license is a one-time perpetual purchase, not a subscription - twelve months of updates included, optional renewals after, no per-user tiers, no data limits, and you can downgrade to the free desktop edition anytime, so your books are never hostage. Businesses wanting collaborative accounting behind their own firewall, with data sovereignty and no monthly fees, get exactly that.