30kActiveWindows · Mac · Linux · In your browserVerifiedMITApp
Actual is a free personal budgeting app that keeps your finances on your own devices and syncs changes between them. It is for people who want to plan spending using envelope budgeting.
25kActiveIn your browserAGPL-3.0Runs on your own server
Firefly III is a personal finance manager that helps you track income, expenses, budgets and savings. It is meant for tech-savvy people who want to keep their financial records on their own server rather than in the cloud.
Runs on your own server · GitHub · You run it yourself
9.6kActiveIn your browserAGPL-3.0Replaces partlyRuns on your own server
Ghostfolio is open source software for tracking your investments such as stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies in one place. It is for individual investors who want to see their portfolio performance and composition, and who prefer to keep their data private.
Runs on your own server · GitHub
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/budgeting.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Monarch Money, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Actual Budget (MIT, https://github.com/actualbudget/actual; replaces fully): Actual is a free personal budgeting app that keeps your finances on your own devices and syncs changes between them. It is for people who want to plan spending using envelope budgeting.
- Firefly III (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii; replaces fully): Firefly III is a personal finance manager that helps you track income, expenses, budgets and savings. It is meant for tech-savvy people who want to keep their financial records on their own server rather than in the cloud.
- Ghostfolio (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/ghostfolio/ghostfolio; replaces partly): Ghostfolio is open source software for tracking your investments such as stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies in one place. It is for individual investors who want to see their portfolio performance and composition, and who prefer to keep their data private.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
