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- Chocolatey
choco install buckets - Homebrew
brew install --cask buckets - Flathub
flatpak install flathub com.budgetwithbuckets.Buckets
About Buckets
Buckets is a family budgeting app built around envelope budgeting, though you can use your own style instead. Your financial data stays on your computer rather than in a cloud service, and there is no monthly fee.
It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, with iOS and Android apps. The trial is untimed, and a single $64 license covers all your computers and those of family members living in your home. It suits households that want a private budget without a subscription.
Strengths
- Finances stay on your own computer
- One-time payment with no subscription
- One license covers the whole household
- Untimed free trial
Limitations
- Closed source
- Envelope method may not suit every budgeting style
Details
- Pricing
- PaidOne-time $64 license with an untimed free trial, covering all computers in the household.
- License
- Proprietary
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Families wanting private envelope budgeting without a monthly fee
- Categories
- Personal finance
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Buckets
Compare allSoftware that can replace Buckets for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
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 free, MIT-licensed local-first envelope budgeting, syncing through a server you run, with a web app instead of native mobile apps.
Goodbudget
An envelope budgeting app for the web, Android and iPhone that syncs budgets across a household.
Goodbudget is a freemium hosted envelope budgeting app for web, Android and iPhone that shares budgets across a household, with data held by the service.
YNAB
A subscription budgeting app built around zero-based budgeting, where every dollar is assigned a job.
YNAB offers zero-based budgeting as a subscription hosted service with extensive learning material, replacing the one-time price and local data storage.
EveryDollar
A zero-based budgeting app from Ramsey Solutions for planning a monthly budget and tracking spending.
EveryDollar is a freemium web-only zero-based budgeting app from Ramsey Solutions that stores budget data on a hosted service.
HomeBank
Desktop personal finance app with budgets, reports and statement import.
HomeBank is a free GPL desktop finance app with budgets and statement import, using single-entry tracking rather than the envelope method.
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 local finance program with budgets and an encrypted SQLite file, plus Android and iOS companions, without envelope budgeting.
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