# firefly-iii/firefly-iii

Firefly III: a personal finances manager

Repository: https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/firefly-iii
Homepage: https://firefly-iii.org/
Language: PHP
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: php, money, cash-flow, budget, php7, finance, financial, budgeting, credit-card, docker, linux, expenses, paycheck, cashflow, finances, budgets, accounting, personal-finance
Last push: 2026-08-26T18:29:07+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 79, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4449, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 63, "gap_med": 3, "n_releases_24m": 76}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 24426, forks 2268 (observed 2026-08-28T04:11:37.095862+00:00)

## What it is
Firefly III is a free, self-hosted personal finance manager written in PHP. It tracks expenses and income, supports budgets, categories, tags, and financial reports, and can import data from external tools.

## Use cases
- track my personal expenses and income
- self-hosted budgeting app
- manage household budgets and categories
- generate financial reports from my transactions
- import bank transactions and categorize spending
- replace Mint with an open-source finance manager

## When to choose
- you want full control and privacy over your financial data on your own server
- you need budgets, categories, tags, and reporting in one tool
- you prefer open-source software with an active community and Docker deployment

## When to avoid
- you want a hosted, zero-setup service with automatic bank syncing out of the box
- you need business or multi-entity accounting rather than personal finance
- you cannot run your own server or Docker instance

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: self-hosted, analytics, data-visualization, http-server
- domain: fintech, self-hosted, developer-tools, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, php
- tags: personal-finance, budgeting, expense-tracking, accounting, money-management, php, agpl, docker, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- firefly-iii/firefly-iii (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:37.095862+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 2026-08-29T16:56:13.795182+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii (fetched 2026-08-28T04:11:37.095862+00:00, sha 2ad8a58c7e90)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.