# serversideup/financial-freedom

🔥🔥🔥 An open source alternative to Mint, YNAB, and more. Stay on budget and build wealth without sacrificing your privacy.

Repository: https://github.com/serversideup/financial-freedom
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/financial-freedom
Homepage: https://serversideup.net/open-source/financial-freedom/
Language: Vue
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: budgeting, financial-independence, finance, laravel, vuejs
Last push: 2026-05-10T15:45:48+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 59/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 81, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2001, "days_push": 115, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2918, forks 217 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:30.080278+00:00)

## What it is
Financial Freedom is a self-hosted, open-source personal finance and budgeting application built with Laravel and Vue, designed as a privacy-focused alternative to Mint and YNAB. It runs anywhere Docker runs, supports CSV bank imports, and lets users fully own their financial data.

## Use cases
- self-host a private budgeting app instead of Mint or YNAB
- track spending and stay on budget without selling my data
- import bank transactions from CSV exports
- run a personal finance app on my Synology NAS or Raspberry Pi
- keep investors and advertisers out of my financial data

## When to choose
- you want full ownership and privacy of your financial data on your own server
- your bank can export CSV files and you want a Mint/YNAB alternative
- you prefer self-hosting on Docker, NAS, or low-power hardware

## When to avoid
- you need a working, installable app today - the project is explicitly on hold and shows a blank screen
- you need automated bank syncing via Plaid or similar right now
- you want a polished, stable product rather than an early-stage codebase to fork or review

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: self-hosted, web-framework, search-engine, caching, developer-tools
- domain: fintech, self-hosted, privacy, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, windows
- tags: budgeting, personal-finance, ynab-alternative, mint-alternative, laravel, vuejs, financial-independence, on-hold, docker, web-server, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- serversideup/financial-freedom (main) score 59

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.080278+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:34:03.557030+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/serversideup/financial-freedom (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:30.080278+00:00, sha ba1d81285195)
  - homepage: https://serversideup.net/open-source/financial-freedom/ (fetched 2026-08-29T09:49:35.430011+00:00, sha 54d990e98269)
  - site_page: https://serversideup.net/open-source/financial-freedom/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T09:49:35.439237+00:00, sha 21d189fdb02f)
  - site_page: https://serversideup.net/open-source/financial-freedom/docs/installation/install-on-synology (fetched 2026-08-29T09:49:35.441284+00:00, sha 1b0b5de69eef)
  - site_page: https://serversideup.net/open-source/financial-freedom/docs/community/contributing (fetched 2026-08-29T09:49:35.443032+00:00, sha 8ed3c565d468)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.