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Actual

Local-first personal finance app with envelope budgeting, bank sync, and cross-device synchronization.

MIT Free actualbudget/actual · 26K actualbudget.org TypeScript 1 deploy option

Overview

A local-first personal finance app Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology. The project has 26K+ GitHub stars and is licensed under MIT.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

There are four ways to deploy Actual:

  1. One-click deployment via PikaPods (~1.40 $/month) - recommended for non-technical users
  2. Managed hosting via Fly.io (~1.50 $/month)
  3. Self-hosted by using a Docker image
  4. Local-only apps - downloadable Windows, Mac and Linux apps you can run on your device

Learn more in the installation instructions docs.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel
elestio

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo
pikapods

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Category

Finance & Budgeting (97) Budgeting & Personal Finance (31)

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