Firefly III
"Firefly III" is a (self-hosted) manager for your personal finances. It can help you keep track of your expenses and income, so you can spend less and save more. Firefly III supports the use of budgets, categories and tags.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Platforms
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
Features
Properties
- Privacy focused
Features
- Financial reporting
- Ad-free
- Multiple Account support
- Dark Mode
- Recurring Billing
- Bank integration
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Import CSV Data
- Support for multiple currencies
Tags
- finance-management
- finance-planning
- finances
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What is Firefly III?
"Firefly III" is a (self-hosted) manager for your personal finances. It can help you keep track of your expenses and income, so you can spend less and save more. Firefly III supports the use of budgets, categories and tags. Using a bunch of external tools, you can import data. It also has many neat financial reports available.
Firefly III should give you insight into and control over your finances. Money should be useful, not scary. You should be able to see where it is going, to feel your expenses and to... wow, I'm going overboard with this aren't I?
But you get the idea: this is your money. These are your expenses. Stop them from controlling you. I built this tool because I started to dislike money. Having money, not having money, paying bills with money, you get the idea. But no more. I want to feel "safe", whatever my balance is. And I hope this tool can help you. I know it helps me.
Firefly III information
Developed by
James ColeLicensing
Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.Written in
Rating
Average rating of 3.4Alternatives
155 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
AlternativeTo Category
Business & CommerceGitHub repository
- 21,743 Stars
- 1,993 Forks
- 135 Open Issues
- Updated
Comments and Reviews
A full-featured, web based personal finance manager with a slick interface and great reporting tools. If you're serious about getting control over your money, I highly recommend Firefly III. The developer is extremely responsive and constantly improving the software.
its perfect for financial management
Horrible. You need a software that deals with sensitive information such as your money to be stable. After spending hours on installation despite following instructions, youtube video, etc word by word, eventually made it work. Then, importing tool very specific with its requirements of CSV format in order to be able to import. Gave up on that as well and imported manually. Then, a couple of weeks later, stopped working. Issues with accessing database.
Overall, open source movement is important and appreciable but devs need to focus on making the basics, such as initial installation, work. The time, i.e., money spent on trying to make this and other poorly developed software way more expensive than purchasing a reputable software solution.
The software itself is great and is the best personal accounting software I could find that fit my needs.
However, the project maintainer/author is very opinionated when building Firefly and seems to often deny feature request because it does not meet their needs. Whether that is intentional or not, that is the impression I get when looking at the discussions and issues on GitHub.
There are a few things that do not make sense, particularly with budgets (can't take refund into accounts in a budget) and reports (some don't display information in a useful manner) that prevents Firefly II from becoming truly great.
No sub categories, while the author is very open to suggestions and is a nice person, they do not want to implement this basic feature. If you need sub categories i suggest to look elsewhere like I did.
If you don't already know Docker or are not comfortable setting up a database this is extremely time consuming to setup initially.
I like the most features. it takes time to understand.
Have been trying out Firefly III for the last couple months, definitely a marvelous piece of software. Although it's self hosted, it is really easy to set up using docker. Plus, you don't have to expose your data to a third party and you're able to access it from anywhere; you can even install a PWA on your phone, which works just as a native app would.