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Organize personal income, expenses, and budgets using local-first envelope budgeting.
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FIFirefly III
Finance & Bookkeeping
Self-host personal income, expenses, budgets, and financial reports, keeping records in a system you manage.
Use with conditions
Last updatedRelease 2026-09-28
Open source licenseAGPL-3.0
PlatformsWeb · Docker server
DeploymentContainers / self-hosted
About this project
Firefly III is a self-hosted personal finance manager for recording income and expenses. Budgets, categories, and tags organize transactions, while reports provide views of money entering and leaving accounts. The application uses double-entry bookkeeping. A typical workflow starts with entering or importing transactions, then classifying them and reviewing the resulting budget and financial records over time.
Recurring transactions and rules help process repeated activity. Piggy banks track savings goals, and the feature list includes multiple currencies and income-and-expense reporting. Besides the web interface, a REST JSON API exposes application functionality to other tools. Import tools and the API provide integration routes; they do not imply automatic support for every bank or external service.
The official project describes installation on a user's own server, with Docker and Kubernetes options. Operating the instance and maintaining its financial records remain part of that deployment. An official demonstration environment allows exploration of the interface and sample administration, while a separately maintained instance is needed for keeping one's own ongoing financial records.
Decision guide
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Why it is worth a look
- Income and expense records, budgets, categories, and tags in one application
- First-party usage or installation documentation is available
- A verifiable formal release record is available
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Before you use it
- The project explicitly targets users willing to work on server administration
- Financial data needs access control and independent backups
- The data importer and core application require separate configuration
Manual setupHigh
With an AI agentModerate
DeploymentContainers / self-hosted
Additional requirements3 confirmed; others not verified
Use the official demo first to understand the bookkeeping workflow; Confirmed requirements: Command line, Docker, An always-on device or service; Some requirements have not been verified. Check the official setup instructions.
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What it can do
- Income and expense records
- Budgets, categories, and tags
- Recurring transactions
- Rule-based transaction processing
- Income and expense reports
- Savings goals
Who it fits
Good for
People needing detailed records of varied income and expenses; Individuals able to maintain a self-hosted service
Not a fit
Unwilling to maintain a self-hosted service and not considering hosting providers; Only accepting a workflow without checking permissions and data backups
Getting started
- Use the official demo first to understand the bookkeeping workflow
- Prepare persistent storage according to the official Docker installation guide
- Start the instance and create an account
- Import and check a small sample before migrating the full accounts