YAFFA
Personal finance web application, that can be used to keep track of your money, expenses, budgets, and investments. It also helps with long-term financial planning.
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Still maintained? Yes: 103 commits in the last 90 days, latest release v4.2.0 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
YAFFA quick facts
- Health score
- 78/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 114
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- v4.2.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- MIT
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Yaffa is a personal finance web application, focusing on the support of long term financial planning. Yaffa is a self hosted web application, written in PHP, using Laravel framework. By hosting your own app instance, your financial data is not uploaded to the cloud, and shared with any third parties."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
YAFFA scores 78/100, #31 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 103 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (v4.2.0, 5 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 114 stars add 8.2 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 11.8 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
103 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
v4.2.0 released 5 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 8.2 / 20
114 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 103
- Last 90 days
- 272
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #31 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between GRR (#30) and VoucherVault (#32) .
Details
| Licence | MIT |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | v4.2.0 · 5 days ago |
| Stars | 114 |
| Open issues | 5 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | kantorge/yaffa ↗ |
YAFFA vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with YAFFA (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actual | 98 | 30k | MIT | today |
| Firefly III | 98 | 25k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| monetr | 91 | 691 | FSL-1.1-MIT | today |
| MyFin Budget | 90 | 316 | GPL-3.0 | 6 days ago |
| YAFFA (this tool) | 78 | 114 | MIT | yesterday |
| Family Accounting Tool | 57 | 372 | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
YAFFA: common questions
Is YAFFA still maintained?
YAFFA had 103 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, v4.2.0, is from 5 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.