Alternatives to Skrooge
KDE personal finance manager with split transactions and detailed reports. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Skrooge
KDE personal finance manager with split transactions and detailed reports.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Skrooge.
KMyMoney
Double-entry personal finance manager from the KDE community.
KMyMoney is the other KDE finance manager, adding double-entry accounting with investment and loan handling, and it offers Windows builds, though they are heavy.
GnuCash
Double-entry accounting for personal and small-business finances.
GnuCash runs on Windows, macOS and Linux with double-entry accounting, invoicing and scheduled transactions, but its interface is dated.
HomeBank
Desktop personal finance app with budgets, reports and statement import.
HomeBank is a lighter desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux with budgets and duplicate import detection, using single-entry bookkeeping.
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 keeps data in an encrypted SQLite file, runs on Windows too and has mobile companions, but bank data must be imported by hand.
Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
Firefly III moves your finances to a self-hosted web application with categorisation rules and detailed reports, which requires running a PHP server and 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 offers local-first envelope budgeting across desktop, mobile web and self-hosted sync under the MIT license, instead of transaction-report focused tracking.
Denaro
An open-source desktop app for managing personal finances across several accounts on the GNOME desktop.
Denaro is a free MIT-licensed GNOME app for Linux that manages several accounts locally, simpler than Skrooge and without automatic bank sync.
Moneydance
Desktop personal finance software for Mac, Windows and Linux with online banking and investment tracking.
Moneydance is paid closed-source software for Mac, Windows, Linux and mobile with transaction download, online bill payment and investment tracking.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Skrooge as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Moneyspire
Desktop personal finance software for tracking accounts, bills and budgets on Mac, Windows and Linux.
Skrooge is a free GPL-3.0 KDE finance manager with split transactions and unlimited undo, but the project targets Linux and macOS with no Windows builds.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
hledger
Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
Portfolio Performance
Calculates how your investments are actually doing across several accounts, using the measures a professional would use.
Wallos
Self-hosted tracker for subscriptions and recurring bills.
Ledger
The original plain-text double-entry accounting tool for the command line.
