Alternatives to Kresus
A free, self-hosted personal finance manager that fetches bank transactions daily onto your own server. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Kresus
A free, self-hosted personal finance manager that fetches bank transactions daily onto your own server.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Kresus.
Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
Firefly III is a self-hosted AGPL manager with budgets, rules and detailed reports, but bank imports need a separate companion tool and the interface takes time to learn.
Actual Budget
Envelope budgeting that keeps your data on your own device and syncs between machines without a company in the middle.
Actual Budget offers local-first envelope budgeting under the MIT license with optional self-hosted sync, and bank connections depend on your country and a third-party service.
Sure
A self-hostable personal finance and net-worth app maintained by the community as a fork of Maybe Finance.
Sure is a self-hosted AGPL fork of Maybe Finance with a net-worth and account dashboard and a Helm chart, maintained by an active community.
ezBookkeeping
A lightweight self-hosted personal bookkeeping web app for recording and reviewing your own finances.
ezBookkeeping is a lightweight self-hosted bookkeeping web app with Docker deployment, but entries are recorded by hand rather than fetched from your bank each day.
MoneyMoney
A Mac banking app that collects all bank accounts in one place for transfers, categories and budgets.
MoneyMoney is a paid Mac banking app that collects bank accounts locally with transfers, categorisation rules and budgets, trading the server for a macOS desktop app.
Lunch Money
A web-based budgeting and spending tracker with multi-currency support, bank syncing and a developer API.
Lunch Money is a paid hosted web budgeting service with bank syncing, strong multi-currency support, a rules engine and a developer API, storing your data on its servers.
Monarch Money
A subscription money app that connects your accounts to track spending, budgets, net worth and goals.
Monarch Money is a paid hosted subscription that connects your accounts with automatic categorisation, so bank data and credentials move from your server to its cloud.
Wallet by BudgetBakers
A personal and family finance app for expense tracking, budgeting and bank synchronization on web and Android.
Wallet by BudgetBakers is a hosted closed-source app for web and Android with bank sync through over 15,000 connections, available in 50 languages.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Wallos
Self-hosted tracker for subscriptions and recurring bills.
Ghostfolio
A self-hosted wealth dashboard that tracks stocks, ETFs, crypto and cash across platforms and shows what your portfolio is actually made of.
hledger
Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
Tiller
A service that feeds bank transactions and balances into your own Google Sheets or Excel spreadsheets.
