Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks
Firefly III is an open-source money, budgeting & management project positioned as an alternative to Personal finance, with 24k GitHub stars and a health score of 100/100. It committed 2037 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: AGPL-3.0. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.
| Status | Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days. |
|---|---|
| Last commit | 2026-08-10 |
| Days since last commit | 7 |
| Commits, last 3 months | 159 |
| Commits, last 12 months | 2037 |
| Months with activity | 12 of 12 |
| Last release | 2026-08-15 |
| Archived | No |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Category | Money, Budgeting & Management |
| Positioned against | Personal finance |
Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.
Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.
Firefly III is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.
Assume every prospect can find a free version in five minutes. Your wedge has to be something open source structurally cannot deliver: compliance, support SLAs, managed hosting at scale, or a workflow the maintainers refuse to build.
Actively maintained. Firefly III recorded 2037 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 159 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-10. Last release: 2026-08-15. Committed within the last 45 days.
Firefly III is published under AGPL-3.0. Copyleft (GPL, AGPL, MPL): derivative work must stay open. AGPL also covers software offered over a network, which blocks most closed SaaS wrappers.
Firefly III targets the same job as Personal finance and is actively shipping. Adoption sits at 24k stars. Whether it is a good replacement depends on your deployment constraints: self-hosting adds infrastructure, upgrade and security work that a commercial subscription absorbs for you.
42 open-source implementations, 27 of them actively maintained, led by HyperSwitch at 43k stars. Saturation score 72/100 — Crowded. Free, maintained alternatives already dominate this category.
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