Actual Budget
Shares budgeting and personal finance with Firefly III. Adds Windows, macOS and Linux. Rated 4.6 (Firefly III: 4.7).
Web AppFreeWeb, Windows
4.6Visit
Web App
Firefly III
A free personal finance manager you host yourself.
Rating
4.7 / 5
Pricing
Free
Difficulty
Advanced
Works on
Web
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What is Firefly III?
Firefly III is a self-hosted money manager that helps you track income and expenses with budgets, categories and tags, recurring transactions, piggy banks for savings goals and charts and reports. Its README says it will never contact external servers until you tell it to, and it supports any currency, two-factor login and data import tools.
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Pros: what Firefly III does well
- Budgets, recurring transactions and savings goals in one place
- Your financial data stays on your own server
- Reports and charts show where money goes
Cons: where it falls short
- You need to run it yourself, for example with Docker
- More detail than a simple expense tracker
Who Firefly III is for
People who want full control of their money data and do not mind some setup.
Who can skip it
Anyone who just wants a quick phone app to log spending.
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