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Family Accounting Tool vs Firefly III: catalog facts
Family Accounting Tool	Firefly III
Free Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence.	Free Free and open source under the AGPL 3.0. You provide the hosting.
Web, Self-hosted	Windows, macOS, Linux, Web, Self-hosted
Tracks internal debt between partners with partially shared expenses Statistics on spending per category and month	Budgets, categories, tags, bills and recurring transactions in one place Rules that categorise transactions as they arrive
Needs Java 11 and a separately configured database Docker install is discouraged by the developer for production use	A PHP application with a database that you have to run and update Bank imports need a separate companion tool
Self-hosted	Self-hosted
Open source	Open source
License: Apache-2.0	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	No account needed
Not stated if it works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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