Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
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docker pull fireflyiii/core
About Firefly III
Firefly III tracks income and expenses across accounts, with budgets, categories, tags, bills and recurring transactions. Rules apply automatically to incoming transactions, and the reporting is unusually thorough for a free tool: balance over time, expense breakdowns, budget performance and net worth.
Data comes in through file import or through companion importers that talk to bank aggregation services. The project is explicit about what it is not: no AI, no cloud, and it lives in the European Union under the AGPL.
Strengths
- Budgets, categories, tags, bills and recurring transactions in one place
- Rules that categorise transactions as they arrive
- Detailed reports including net worth and budget performance over time
- Self-hosted under the AGPL, with no cloud component at all
Limitations
- A PHP application with a database that you have to run and update
- Bank imports need a separate companion tool
- The interface is dense and there is a lot to learn
- No official mobile app; third-party ones use the API
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the AGPL 3.0. You provide the hosting.
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Developer
- Firefly III
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Tracking every account and transaction on a server you own
- Categories
- Personal finance
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Selected from the TechWalrus downloads catalog (Finance); facts checked against the developer's own pages, 2 sources on file.
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