Wealthfolio
Budgeting & FinancePrivacy-focused desktop investment portfolio tracker
Replaces Personal Capital, Sharesight
Best Single-User Budgeting & Finance for self-hosting
The 20 best Single-User budgeting & finance you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Wallos
Budgeting & FinanceOpen-source subscription tracker and budgeter
Replaces Rocket Money, Bobby
hledger-web
Budgeting & FinanceWeb interface for hledger plain-text accounting
Replaces QuickBooks, Quicken
Cashew Self-Host
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted sync server for personal budgeting
Replaces YNAB, Mint
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
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
ExpenseOwl
Budgeting & FinanceMinimal self-hosted expense tracker
Replaces Mint, Spendee
Tracktor
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted vehicle maintenance and expense tracker
Replaces Drivvo, Fuelly
Kresus
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted personal finance manager
Replaces Mint, Bankin
Budget Zero
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted zero-based budgeting tool
Replaces YNAB, Mint
BudgetBee
Budgeting & FinanceSelf-hosted personal finance and budgeting manager
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wealthfolio | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 9,175 |
| Wallos | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 8,670 |
| hledger-web | Read-the-docs project | Medium | 128 MB | GPL-3.0 | 4,765 |
| Cashew Self-Host | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | MIT | 4,699 |
| 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 |
| Paisa | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 3,222 |
| Fava | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 256 MB | MIT | 2,589 |
| Money Manager Ex | Read-the-docs project | Easy | 128 MB | GPL-2.0 | 2,279 |
| ExpenseOwl | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 64 MB | MIT | 1,523 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Wealthfolio (9,175 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: ExpenseOwl (from 64 MB RAM, against 512 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 6 of 20 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 Single-User within the budgeting & finance category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.
Keep exploring
Head-to-head: Single-User budgeting & finance
- Beancount Import vs Buckets
- Beancount Import vs BudgetBee
- Beancount Import vs Budgetwarrior
- Beancount Import vs Cashew Self-Host
- Beancount Import vs ExpenseOwl
- Beancount Import vs Kresus
- Beancount Import vs Money Manager Ex
- Beancount Import vs MoneyWallet
- Beancount Import vs Budget Zero
- Beancount Import vs Paisa
- Buckets vs BudgetBee
- Buckets vs Budgetwarrior