Firefly III

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.

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.