ExpenseOwl
Extremely simple expense tracker with a beautiful UI.
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Still maintained? Slowing: no commits in the last 90 days, last push Oct 2025.
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At a glance
ExpenseOwl quick facts
- Health score
- 48/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 1,527
- Last commit
- 1 years ago (Oct 2025)
- Latest release
- v4.1, Oct 2025
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "ExpenseOwl is an extremely simple self-hosted expense tracking system with a modern monthly pie-chart visualization and cashflow showcase."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
ExpenseOwl scores 48/100, #41 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 0 commits in the last 90 days earn 0.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v4.1, 1.1 years ago) earns 15.1 of 25, 1,527 stars add 12.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is commit activity, worth 35.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity biggest shortfall 0.0 / 35
0 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 15.1 / 25
v4.1 released 1.1 years ago
- Stars 12.7 / 20
1.5k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 0
- Last 90 days
- 0
- Last 12 months
- 1 years ago
- Last push
Ranked #41 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between SHKeeper (#40) and DePay (#42) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Go, Docker, K8S |
| Latest release | v4.1 · 1.1 years ago |
| Stars | 1,527 |
| Open issues | 44 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | tanq16/expenseowl ↗ |
ExpenseOwl vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with ExpenseOwl (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperSwitch | 99 | 46k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Actual | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| Firefly III | 98 | 25k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Ghostfolio | 96 | 9.6k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Expensave | 87 | 58 | GPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| ExpenseOwl (this tool) | 48 | 1.5k | MIT | 1 years ago |
ExpenseOwl: common questions
Is ExpenseOwl still maintained?
ExpenseOwl had 0 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 1 years ago; the latest tagged release, v4.1, is from 1.1 years ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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