Alternatives to Firefly III for self-hosted personal finance?
I’ve been trying to run Firefly III for the past couple months and I’m starting to feel a little burned out with it.
I like the idea of self-hosting my finances and keeping everything private, but Firefly seems to take a lot of effort to keep running smoothly. I’ve spent way more time troubleshooting imports, rules, budgets not behaving how I expect, and general backend stuff than I expected when I first set it up.
It’s clearly a powerful tool, but right now it feels like more maintenance than actual benefit for my personal use.
I’m curious what others here are using for self-hosted finance tracking that’s a bit simpler or lower maintenance.
Things I’m hoping for:
- self-hosted (Docker is ideal)
- simple budgeting / expense tracking
- decent reports or dashboards
- not a huge time sink to maintain
- bank import would be nice but not required
I’ve seen a few names like Actual Budget mentioned before but haven’t tried it yet.
For anyone who moved away from Firefly, what did you end up switching to?
Posted Mar 8, 2026, 8:14 PM UTC