Alternatives to ezBookkeeping
A lightweight self-hosted personal bookkeeping web app for recording and reviewing your own finances. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ezBookkeeping
A lightweight self-hosted personal bookkeeping web app for recording and reviewing your own finances.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ezBookkeeping.
Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
Firefly III is a self-hosted AGPL finance manager with budgets, rules and detailed reports, running as a heavier PHP application with a database.
Actual Budget
Envelope budgeting that keeps your data on your own device and syncs between machines without a company in the middle.
Actual Budget is MIT-licensed local-first envelope budgeting with desktop and mobile access, using an optional sync server rather than a web ledger.
Kresus
A free, self-hosted personal finance manager that fetches bank transactions daily onto your own server.
Kresus is a free self-hosted finance manager that fetches bank transactions daily onto your server, with documentation mainly in French.
Sure
A self-hostable personal finance and net-worth app maintained by the community as a fork of Maybe Finance.
Sure is a self-hostable AGPL net-worth and budgeting dashboard forked from Maybe Finance, with a Helm chart for Kubernetes.
Money Manager Ex
A straightforward personal finance program for accounts, budgets and spending history, storing everything in an encrypted local SQLite file.
Money Manager Ex is a free GPL desktop program storing records in an encrypted local SQLite file, without needing a server to maintain.
HomeBank
Desktop personal finance app with budgets, reports and statement import.
HomeBank is a free GPL desktop finance app with budgets, reports and statement import, running locally instead of as a self-hosted web app.
hledger
Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
hledger keeps personal accounts in a plain-text double-entry file with command-line, terminal and web interfaces, requiring double-entry knowledge.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Akaunting
Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, available online or self-hosted.
Wallos
Self-hosted tracker for subscriptions and recurring bills.
I Hate Money
Open-source web app for tracking shared expenses within a group, usable hosted or self-hosted.
Grocy
Self-hosted household management for groceries, stock and chores.
Ghostfolio
A self-hosted wealth dashboard that tracks stocks, ETFs, crypto and cash across platforms and shows what your portfolio is actually made of.
Spliit
An open-source web app for sharing and settling group expenses with friends and family, no account needed.
