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Self-Hosting Firefly III: Personal Finance with Double-Entry Bookkeeping Most personal finance apps fall into one of two camps: oversimplified trackers that can’t tell you where your money actually went, or enterprise accounting software that requires a CPA to configure. Firefly III sits in the sweet spot — it’s a proper double-entry bookkeeping system built for normal people who want real control over their finances. Firefly III is open source (AGPLv3), actively maintained, and has been around since 2015. It runs entirely on your own server, never phones home, and gives you budgets, categories, tags, piggy banks, recurring transactions, and a powerful rules engine to automate the tedious parts of financial tracking. If you’ve outgrown spreadsheets but don’t want to hand your bank data to a cloud service, this is your tool. ...

Self-Hosting Maybe Finance: Open Source Personal Finance Tracker Most personal finance apps want your bank credentials, store your data on their servers, and charge a monthly fee for the privilege. Maybe Finance flips that model — it’s a fully open-source personal finance app you run on your own hardware. Maybe started as a funded fintech startup, pivoted to open source, and eventually archived the project under AGPLv3. The app is feature-complete and actively forked by the community. You get net worth tracking, transaction management, account aggregation, spending breakdowns, and even AI-powered features — all running on your own server with your data never leaving your network. ...