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Grisbi

Lightweight personal accounting application

Budgeting & Finance ★ 160 stars Easy setup GPL-2.0

Grisbi is a free, lightweight personal accounting application aimed at individuals and small associations. It tracks accounts, third parties, categories, and budgets, and can import statements in standard formats.

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Key features

  • Personal accounting
  • Budget tracking
  • Statement import
  • Multi-currency support

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • Easy to set up — beginner-friendly
  • Written in C
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 128 MB RAM

Trade-offs

  • Dated interface
  • Slow development

Is Grisbi secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Grisbi's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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