IHateMoney
Manage your shared expenses, easily.
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Still maintained? Yes: 35 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 7.2.1 (Aug 2026).
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At a glance
IHateMoney quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,395
- Last commit
- 3 months ago (Aug 2026)
- Latest release
- 7.2.1, Aug 2026
- Licence
- BSD-3-Clause
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "I hate money is a web application made to ease shared budget management. It keeps track of who bought what, when, and for whom; and helps to settle the bills."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
IHateMoney scores 93/100, #14 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 35 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (7.2.1, 3 months ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,395 stars add 12.6 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 7.4 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
35 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
7.2.1 released 3 months ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 12.6 / 20
1.4k 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
- 35
- Last 90 days
- 102
- Last 12 months
- 3 months ago
- Last push
Ranked #14 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between FOSSBilling (#13) and InvoiceShelf (#15) .
Details
| Licence | BSD-3-Clause |
| Platforms | Docker, Python |
| Latest release | 7.2.1 · 3 months ago |
| Stars | 1,395 |
| Open issues | 64 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | spiral-project/ihatemoney ↗ |
IHateMoney vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with IHateMoney (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FOSSBilling | 93 | 1.7k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| IHateMoney (this tool) | 93 | 1.4k | BSD-3-Clause | 3 months ago |
| InvoiceShelf | 93 | 1.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| monetr | 91 | 691 | FSL-1.1-MIT | today |
| Expensave | 87 | 58 | GPL-3.0 | 4 days ago |
| Family Accounting Tool | 57 | 372 | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
IHateMoney: common questions
Is IHateMoney still maintained?
IHateMoney had 35 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 3 months ago; the latest tagged release, 7.2.1, is from 3 months ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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