Wallos
Budgeting & FinanceOpen-source subscription tracker and budgeter
Replaces Rocket Money, Bobby
Best Lightweight Budgeting & Finance for self-hosting
The 13 best Lightweight budgeting & finance you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Hospitable Ledger
Budgeting & FinancePlain-text accounting toolkit and CLI
Replaces QuickBooks, Quicken
hledger-web
Budgeting & FinanceWeb interface for hledger plain-text accounting
Replaces QuickBooks, Quicken
Paisa
Budgeting & FinancePersonal finance manager on plain-text accounting
Replaces Mint, Personal Capital
Spliit
Budgeting & FinanceOpen-source group expense sharing app
Replaces Splitwise, Tricount
Fava
Budgeting & FinanceWeb interface for Beancount plain-text accounting
Replaces QuickBooks, GnuCash
ExpenseOwl
Budgeting & FinanceMinimal self-hosted expense tracker
Replaces Mint, Spendee
I Hate Money
Budgeting & FinanceShared expense manager for groups
Replaces Splitwise, Tricount
Kresus
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted personal finance manager
Replaces Mint, Bankin
hledger-flow
Budgeting & FinanceAutomated import pipeline for hledger plain-text accounting
Replaces QuickBooks import, Tiller
Grisbi
Budgeting & FinanceLightweight personal accounting application
Replaces Quicken
Budgetwarrior
Budgeting & FinanceTerminal-based budgeting and expense tracker
Replaces YNAB, Mint
Costflow
Budgeting & FinanceNatural-language interface for plain-text accounting
Replaces Expensify, Mint
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wallos | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 8,670 |
| Hospitable Ledger | Read-the-docs project | Hard | 64 MB | BSD-3-Clause | 6,053 |
| hledger-web | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 4,765 |
| Paisa | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 3,222 |
| Spliit | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | MIT | 2,985 |
| Fava | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | MIT | 2,589 |
| ExpenseOwl | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 64 MB | MIT | 1,523 |
| I Hate Money | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | BSD-3-Clause | 1,393 |
| Kresus | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 800 |
| hledger-flow | Read-the-docs project | Hard | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 219 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Wallos (8,670 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Hospitable Ledger (from 64 MB RAM, against 256 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 5 of 13 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Lightweight within the budgeting & finance category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.