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

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