Money, Budgeting & Management
We track 3 open-source Mint alternatives, of which 3 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Actual leads on health at 98/100 with 319 commits in the last 90 days; across all 3 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, MIT.
Healthiest
Health 98/100: 319 commits in 90 days, latest release v26.10.0, Docker image available.
Most active
933 commits in the last 90 days, more than any other option here.
Showing 3 of 3 tools
Top pick · highest health
Local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, supporting synchronization across devices, custom rules, manual transaction importing (from QIF, OFX, and QFX files), and optional automatic synchronization with many banks.
Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks.
Wealth management software to keep track of stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies.
Actual and Firefly III tie at 98/100. Firefly III is the busier codebase, with 933 commits in 90 days to 319. Actual also has the largest following, at 30k stars.
The most recent release is Ghostfolio 3.94.0, published 2 days ago. None of the measured options scores under 40. By stack, Nodejs (2) and PHP (1) are the most common. Actual is permissively licensed; Firefly III and Ghostfolio are copyleft.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit | Docker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual Steady at 98 since 11 Sep | 98 | 30k | MIT | today | Yes |
| Firefly III Steady at 98 since 11 Sep | 98 | 25k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday | Yes |
| Ghostfolio Steady at 96 since 11 Sep | 96 | 9.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today | Yes |
Actual scores highest at 98/100, with 319 commits in the last 90 days, 30k stars on GitHub and its latest release (v26.10.0) published 28 days ago. Firefly III has the most raw commit activity at 933 commits in 90 days.
1 of 3 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Actual (MIT). 2 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.
3 of 3 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Actual, Firefly III, Ghostfolio. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.
On measured health Actual leads, 98 to 98. Actual has 319 commits in 90 days, 30k stars and v26.10.0 from 28 days ago; Firefly III has 933 commits in 90 days, 25k stars and v6.7.9 from 19 days ago. Actual is ahead or level on every term Repoly measures.
3 of the 3 measured options score 70 or above. Every measured option had commits in the last 90 days. None scores under 40.
Nodejs: Actual and Ghostfolio. PHP: Firefly III. The stack matters if you plan to extend or patch the tool yourself.
