Why self host a web app that could have easily just been a regular progam.
Control over your own data (if you mean regular program as cloud apps), or accessible on multiple devices and to different users if you mean an offline computer app
Why not Actual Budget, which is also self-hosted, open-source bucket budgeting based off YNAB, however it appears to be a lot more mature.
They also transparently run the project on Open Collective which I like:
Ooh, this looks great… thanks for sharing! Maybe it will finally rip my excel spreadsheets from out of my hands 😂
Net worth and investment tracking goes in my spreadsheets, budgeting in Actual Budget.
I’m guessing because this one is open. There are very few self hosted budgeting tools, and a lot of desktop ones. If I’m going through the trouble of self hosting one, it better be open source. I don’t want to get stuck with all my financial data in an app I don’t want to pay anymore or worse, goes out of business.
If the open self hosted app doesn’t suit me, there’s GnuCash. A bit of a learning curve and less sexy, but it’s solid and got my finances stable through college.
You’re replying to my comment about Actual Budget, the very open source budgeting solution?
I did look in the link you provided earlier and all I saw was pricing and features. Nothing wrong with an open project selling services, of course. But can you really blame me?
all I saw was pricing […] can you really blame me?
I mean I really can. They don’t have any paid option so you definitely didn’t see any pricing. They only have a big open source message:
I don’t know where you got that, but this is what I get clicking that first link you posted:
Actualbudget.com =/= actualbudget.org
Originally the project was a closed source budgeting app to compete against YNAB on privacy and cost but the developer got overwhelmed and decided to open source the project.
I can’t remember all the details why the project doesn’t have access to the .com domain still, but you can use the .org site to see the details/source code. (You can also see the .com address hasn’t been updated, and still has the original 2020 copyright date)
Try clicking either of those links.
Regardless, this is a thread about self-hosted open-source budgeting, which is why I linked to Actual Budget. I have updated the first post to be the Github link instead to prevent confusion.
Why would I do that to try to find the source code?
While it used to be closed source the maintainer a couple years back decided to not make it a job, and open sourced, took down the hosted option, and nowaintains it as a side project open sourced.
Not nearly good enough to make me give up Quicken but it is nice to see some more self hosted options popping up.
I’ll check it out! I have been using Firefly III.
I think it’s good there are several projects that try to solve similar problems. It makes for such a diverse solution pool.
Imagine if the same amount of developer resources were put towards a single solution instead of 5 nearly identical ones 🤷
Imagine being stuck with only one option and then those developers do something you dislike and you can’t switch 🤷
