monetr
Budgeting application focused on planning for recurring expenses.
Description from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Still maintained? Yes: 414 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v1.21.1 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
monetr quick facts
- Health score
- 91/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 691
- Last commit
- today (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v1.21.1, Oct 2026
- Licence
- FSL-1.1-MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "monetr is a budgeting application that aims to make it easier for people to budget around recurring expenses. While making it absolutely clear how much you have left over to budget or use for other unplanned spending. It is based off of the now defunct Simple. It is also completely free to self-host."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
monetr scores 91/100, #19 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 414 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v1.21.1, 4 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 691 stars add 11.4 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 8.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
414 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v1.21.1 released 4 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 11.4 / 20
691 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
- 414
- Last 90 days
- 1,316
- Last 12 months
- today
- Last push
Ranked #19 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between WYGIWYH (#18) and MyFin Budget (#20) .
Details
| Licence | FSL-1.1-MIT |
| Platforms | Docker, K8S |
| Latest release | v1.21.1 · 4 days ago |
| Stars | 691 |
| Open issues | 46 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | monetr/monetr ↗ |
monetr vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with monetr (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| IHateMoney | 93 | 1.4k | BSD-3-Clause | 3 months ago |
| InvoiceShelf | 93 | 1.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| monetr (this tool) | 91 | 691 | FSL-1.1-MIT | today |
| Econumo | 88 | 120 | MIT | today |
| YAFFA | 78 | 114 | MIT | yesterday |
monetr: common questions
Is monetr still maintained?
monetr had 414 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was today; the latest tagged release, v1.21.1, is from 4 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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