# actualbudget/actual

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.9 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 29,192 total · +2 stars on 2026-09-28 (UTC), ≈ 10 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Finance & crypto · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2022-04-29 · Last push: 2026-09-28
- GitHub: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual · Homepage: https://actualbudget.org · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/actualbudget/actual

## 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

## Why it’s here

- 2 stars so far today, about 10 expected by the end of the day.
- Interest is fading: the two-day pace is 47% of the previous week and a half.
- About 8 forks a day — people are taking the code.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 3,040
- Issues and pull requests: 8,865
- Watchers: 87
- Average over the last week: 20 per day
- Usual pace: 31 per day
- Latest release: v26.9.0 (2026-09-01)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-04 … 2026-11-02: None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None, None

## Magnitude by day, last 12 days

09-17 3.5, 09-18 2.1, 09-19 2.1, 09-20 2.1, 09-21 1.7, 09-22 2.0, 09-23 2.0, 09-24 1.9, 09-25 1.9, 09-26 1.9, 09-27 2.1, 09-28 2.0

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-28 10:29 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.