Best Open Source Budgeting Apps in 2026
Personal finance apps for tracking spending, setting budgets, and managing household or business finances.
The most popular pick this year is Actual Budget with 26,411 GitHub stars, but all 5 options below are worth considering depending on your needs.
5 open source budgeting apps — ranked by GitHub stars. Browse all
Actual Budget
Fast, privacy-focused local-first personal finance app using zero-sum budgeting, with optional self-hosted sync.
Firefly III
Free and open-source personal finance manager with double-entry bookkeeping, budgets, and bank import support.
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Ghostfolio
Open-source wealth management software to track stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and your overall net worth.
Budget Board
A simple app for tracking monthly spending and working towards financial goals.
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BudgetBee
Self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking expenses, budgets, and net worth via Docker.
MintHow we rank these tools
Tools are ranked by GitHub stars as a proxy for community adoption and trust. Stars reflect how many developers found a project valuable enough to bookmark — a reasonable signal for quality in the open source world. We only list tools that are actively maintained and open source.
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