actualbudget/actual

A local-first personal finance app

Finance & cryptoTypeScript#budgeting#finance#money#personal-finance

2.1 Steady Magnitude out of 10. Star growth looks organic. Data as of September 18, 2026.

About the project

A local-first personal finance app with device sync, envelope budgeting, and self-hosting support. A free open-source alternative to paid services like YNAB.

Useful for

Deploy Actual via Docker on your own server to track a household budget
Install the desktop app and track expenses without any cloud
Migrate data from another budgeting app using the migration guide

README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.

Why it’s trending

15 stars so far today, about 20 expected by the end of the day.

Stars per day

Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.

Numbers

Total stars: 28,997
Stars in a day: 20
Forks: 2,995
Issues and pull requests: 8,797
Watchers: 87
Language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Latest release: v26.9.0 · September 1, 2026
Created: April 29, 2022
Last push: September 18, 2026

Star trust

Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.

These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.

Spotted in

September 18, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #15, +65 stars
September 17, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #15, +37 stars

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