Actual Budget
Budgeting & FinanceLocal-first envelope budgeting app
Replaces YNAB, Mint
Best Offline-First Budgeting & Finance for self-hosting
The 19 best Offline-First budgeting & finance you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Wealthfolio
Budgeting & FinancePrivacy-focused desktop investment portfolio tracker
Replaces Personal Capital, Sharesight
Beancount
Budgeting & FinanceDouble-entry bookkeeping in plain text with a query language
Replaces QuickBooks, Xero
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
GnuCash
Budgeting & FinanceFree desktop accounting for individuals and businesses
Replaces Quicken, QuickBooks
Portfolio Performance
Budgeting & FinanceOpen-source desktop tool for tracking investment portfolio performance
Replaces Sharesight, Personal Capital
Rotki
Budgeting & FinancePrivacy-focused portfolio and crypto accounting tool
Replaces CoinTracker, Koinly
Paisa
Budgeting & FinancePersonal finance manager on plain-text accounting
Replaces Mint, Personal Capital
Fava
Budgeting & FinanceWeb interface for Beancount plain-text accounting
Replaces QuickBooks, GnuCash
Money Manager Ex
Budgeting & FinanceFree cross-platform personal finance manager
Replaces Quicken, Mint
Budget Zero
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted zero-based budgeting tool
Replaces YNAB, Mint
MoneyWallet
Budgeting & FinanceOpen-source personal finance manager for Android
Replaces Mint, Wallet by BudgetBakers
Beancount Import
Budgeting & FinanceSemi-automated transaction import for Beancount ledgers
Replaces Mint
hledger-flow
Budgeting & FinanceAutomated import pipeline for hledger plain-text accounting
Replaces QuickBooks import, Tiller
Skrooge
Budgeting & FinancePersonal finance manager for the KDE desktop
Replaces Quicken
Buckets
Budgeting & FinanceOffline-first envelope budgeting desktop app
Replaces YNAB, Mint
Grisbi
Budgeting & FinanceLightweight personal accounting application
Replaces Quicken
Budgetwarrior
Budgeting & FinanceTerminal-based budgeting and expense tracker
Replaces YNAB, Mint
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Budget | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | MIT | 29,477 |
| Wealthfolio | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 9,175 |
| Beancount | Read-the-docs project | Hard | 128 MB | GPL-2.0 | 6,080 |
| 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 |
| GnuCash | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 256 MB | GPL-2.0 | 4,376 |
| Portfolio Performance | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 512 MB | EPL-1.0 | 4,100 |
| Rotki | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 4,043 |
| Paisa | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 3,222 |
| Fava | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | MIT | 2,589 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Actual Budget (29,477 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Hospitable Ledger (from 64 MB RAM, against 512 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 6 of 19 use GPL-3.0; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Offline-First within the budgeting & finance category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.
Keep exploring
Head-to-head: Offline-First budgeting & finance
- Actual Budget vs Beancount Import
- Actual Budget vs Buckets
- Actual Budget vs Budgetwarrior
- Actual Budget vs Money Manager Ex
- Actual Budget vs MoneyWallet
- Actual Budget vs Budget Zero
- Actual Budget vs Paisa
- Beancount vs Fava
- Beancount vs GnuCash
- Beancount vs hledger-web
- Beancount vs Hospitable Ledger
- Beancount Import vs Buckets