Fava
Web frontend of Beancount, a text based double-entry accounting system.
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Still maintained? Yes: 91 commits in the last 90 days.
Comparisons in Money, Budgeting & Management: QuickBooks alternatives, FreshBooks alternatives, Stripe Billing alternatives, Chargebee alternatives.
At a glance
Fava quick facts
- Health score
- 59/100 SLOWING
- Stars
- 2,597
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- No tagged release
- Licence
- MIT
Top alternatives to Fava
In its own words
The project's README opens: ".. image:: https://img.shields.io/gitter/room/beancount/fava :alt: Join the chat at https://gitter.im/beancount/fava :target: https://gitter.im/beancount/fava .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/l/fava :alt: PyPI - License :target: https://github.com/beancount/fava/blob/main/LICENSE .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/fava :alt: PyPI - Version :target: https://pypi.org/project/fava/."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Fava scores 59/100, #37 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 91 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the absence of a tagged release forfeits all 25 release points, 2,597 stars add 13.7 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the slowing band (40 to 69). The biggest shortfall is release recency, worth 25.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
91 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency biggest shortfall 0.0 / 25
No tagged release found
- Stars 13.7 / 20
2.6k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 91
- Last 90 days
- 234
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #37 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Ocular (#36) and Family Accounting Tool (#38) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | Python |
| Latest release | No tagged release |
| Stars | 2,597 |
| Open issues | 74 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | beancount/fava ↗ |
Fava vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with Fava (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 |
| Bigcapital | 94 | 4k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| Akaunting | 86 | 10k | BUSL-1.1 | yesterday |
| Fava (this tool) | 59 | 2.6k | MIT | yesterday |
Fava: common questions
Is Fava still maintained?
Fava had 91 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.