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Firefly III — A self-hosted personal finance manager built around double-entry bookkeeping and data ownership

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Stars
24,649
Primary language
PHP
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026

Overview

Firefly III manages income, expenses, budgets, categories, tags, recurring transactions, and reports on infrastructure you control. It includes double-entry bookkeeping, rule-based transaction handling, 2FA, a REST JSON API, and Docker/Kubernetes deployment options. The latest GitHub release checked on September 17, 2026 is v6.7.2.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Bring transactions, budgets, categories, rules, and reports into a double-entry ledger

Firefly III records income and expenses using double-entry bookkeeping and adds budgets, categories, tags, recurring transactions, rules, savings goals, and income/expense reporting.

Sources: [2]

Build your own data pipeline around the REST API and import ecosystem

The README describes a REST JSON API covering almost every part of Firefly III, alongside import and community tooling. The application states that it does not contact external servers unless explicitly configured to do so.

Sources: [2]

For users who want long-term financial records on their own server instead of uploading them to a SaaS

It fits self-hosters who want control over where financial data lives and want customizable budgeting, rules, reporting, and API integrations.

Sources: [2]

Data ownership also means owning backups, security, and upgrades

Production operation requires database backups, HTTPS, mail configuration, secret management, 2FA, and regular upgrades. The main branch already targets PHP 8.5 and Laravel 13, so release upgrades should follow the official migration guidance rather than tracking main blindly.

Sources: [2][3][4]

Official sources

  1. [1]firefly-iii/firefly-iii — GitHub repository metadata(2026-09-17)
  2. [2]Firefly III — README(2026-09-17)
  3. [3]Firefly III — composer.json(2026-09-17)
  4. [4]Firefly III v6.7.2 release(2026-09-17)
Supplemental curator note

Its core value is keeping personal-finance records under your own infrastructure rather than requiring a hosted finance service.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd firefly-iii
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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GitHub Topics

  • php
  • money
  • cash-flow
  • budget
  • php7
  • finance
  • financial
  • budgeting
  • credit-card
  • docker
  • linux
  • expenses
Stars
24,649
Forks
2,288
Watchers
175
Open issues
171
Primary language
PHP
License
AGPL-3.0
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026
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