ezbookkeeping
A lightweight personal bookkeeping app hosted by yourself.
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Still maintained? Yes: 296 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v2.1.1 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
ezbookkeeping quick facts
- Health score
- 95/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 5,871
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v2.1.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "ezBookkeeping is an open source, powerful, self-hosted personal finance app that is easy to use. It helps you record daily transactions, import data from various sources, and quickly search and filter your bills. You can analyze historical data using built-in charts or perform custom queries with your own chart dimensions to better understand spending patterns and financial trends. ezBookkeeping is easy to deploy, and you can start it with just one single Docker command."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
ezbookkeeping scores 95/100, #9 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 296 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v2.1.1, 7 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 5,871 stars add 15.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 4.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
296 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v2.1.1 released 7 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 15.1 / 20
5.9k 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
- 296
- Last 90 days
- 869
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #9 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Wallos (#8) and Kill Bill (#10) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Go, Docker |
| Latest release | v2.1.1 · 7 days ago |
| Stars | 5,871 |
| Open issues | 17 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | mayswind/ezbookkeeping ↗ |
ezbookkeeping vs its top 5 alternatives
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| 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 |
| Invoice Ninja | 96 | 10k | Elastic-2.0 | today |
| ezbookkeeping (this tool) | 95 | 5.9k | MIT | yesterday |
ezbookkeeping: common questions
Is ezbookkeeping still maintained?
ezbookkeeping had 296 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v2.1.1, is from 7 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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