Actual Budget vs Firefly III

Comparing two open source alternatives to Mint and Monarch Money and Rocket Money. Use the comparison below to decide which one fits your needs.

Actual Budget

MIT

Fast, privacy-focused local-first personal finance app using zero-sum budgeting, with optional self-hosted sync.

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Firefly III

AGPL-3.0

Free and open-source personal finance manager with double-entry bookkeeping, budgets, and bank import support.

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Side-by-side comparison

	Actual Budget	Firefly III
License	MIT	AGPL-3.0
Self-hostable	Yes	Yes
GitHub Stars	28,763	24,603
Forks	2,975	2,282
Open Issues	239	173
Last Commit	Sep 13, 2026	Sep 14, 2026
First Released	Apr 29, 2022	Jun 28, 2014
Categories	Budgeting Apps	Budgeting Apps
Tags	#budgeting #personal finance #privacy	#budgeting #personal finance #money

GitHub stars over time

Actual Budget28,763

Firefly III

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