Budget & personal finance
Actual Budget
Local-first envelope budgeting with optional sync server.
open source self-hostable Actual Budget project · ?The open-source YNAB: fast, private, and the sync server is a tiny container.
Website ↗ Source ↗ Plan “Budget & personal finance” with it
How you can run it
| Way | Where the data lives | Price basis | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Host it myself | your own server or hardware | free | green — You run it yourself: no data leaves your own infrastructure. |
Facts
| Company / project | Actual Budget project (jurisdiction unknown) |
|---|---|
| Licence | MIT |
| Self-hosting footprint | 128 MB RAM · 0.1 vCPU · 1 GB — small deployment: a household or a team of up to ~20 people |
| Commonly replaces | YNAB |
| Upstream (awesome-selfhosted-data) | 28,549 stars · updated 2026-09-03 · Nodejs, Docker |
| Provenance | curated, verified 2026-09-04 |
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