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"Firefly III" is a (self-hosted) manager for your personal finances. It can help you keep track of your expenses and income, so you can spend less and save more. Firefly III supports the use of budgets, categories and tags. It can import data from external sources and it has many neat financial reports available. Here are some screenshots:
[](https://firefly-iii.org/static/screenshots/4.7.4/index.png) [](https://firefly-iii.org/static/screenshots/4.7.4/account.png)
[](https://firefly-iii.org/static/screenshots/4.7.4/budget.png) [](https://firefly-iii.org/static/screenshots/4.7.4/category.png)
Personal financial management is pretty difficult, and everybody has their own approach to it. Some people make budgets, other people limit their cashflow by throwing away their credit cards, others try to increase their current cashflow. There are tons of ways to save and earn money. Firefly III works on the principle that if you know where your money is going, you can stop it from going there.
By keeping track of your expenses and your income you can budget accordingly and save money. Stop living from paycheck to paycheck but give yourself the financial wiggle room you need.
Then the things that make you go "yeah OK, makes sense".
* A [double-entry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-entry_bookkeeping_system) bookkeeping system
* You can store, edit and remove [withdrawals, deposits and transfers](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/concepts/transactions.html). This allows you full financial management
* You can manage [different types of accounts](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/concepts/accounts.html)
* Asset accounts
* Shared asset accounts (household accounts)
* Saving accounts
* Credit cards
* Loans, mortgages
* It's possible to create, change and manage money [using budgets](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/concepts/budgets.html)
* Organize transactions [using categories](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/concepts/categories.html)
* Save towards a goal using [piggy banks](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/advanced/piggies.html)
* Predict and anticipate [bills](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/advanced/bills.html)
* View [income and expense reports](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/advanced/reports.html)
* Organize expenses [using tags](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/concepts/tags.html)
* Supports [any currency you want](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/concepts/currencies.html), including crypto currencies such as ₿itcoin and Ξthereum
* There is a [Docker image](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/installation/docker.html), a [Sandstorm.io grain](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/installation/hosted.html) and an [Heroku script](http://docs.firefly-iii.org/en/latest/installation/hosted.html).
This application is for people who want to track their finances, keep an eye on their money **without having to upload their financial records to the cloud**. You're a bit tech-savvy, you like open source software and you don't mind tinkering with (self-hosted) servers.
* Please read the [considerations when using Heroku](https://firefly-iii.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/hosted.html#considerations-when-using-heroku) first though.
6. You can [install it using Softaculous](https://softaculous.com/). These guys even have made [another demo site](https://www.softaculous.com/softaculous/apps/others/Firefly_III)!
Make sure you check for updates regularly. Your Firefly III instance will ask you to do this. [Upgrade instructions](https://firefly-iii.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/upgrading.html) can be found in the [official documentation](https://firefly-iii.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html).
Your help is always welcome! Feel free to open issues, ask questions, talk about it and discuss this tool. I've created several social media accounts and I invite you to follow them, tweet at them and post to them. There's [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/FireflyIII/) and [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Firefly_III). It's not very active but it's a start!
Of course, there are some [contributing guidelines](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/blob/master/.github/contributing.md) and a [code of conduct](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/blob/master/.github/code_of_conduct.md), which I invite you to check out.
I can always use your help [squashing bugs](https://firefly-iii.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support/contribute.html#bugs), thinking about [new features](https://firefly-iii.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support/contribute.html#feature-requests) or [translating Firefly III](https://firefly-iii.readthedocs.io/en/latest/support/contribute.html#translations) into other languages.
Firefly III should give you **insight** into and **control** over your finances. Money should be useful, not scary. You should be able to *see* where it is going, to *feel* your expenses and to... wow, I'm going overboard with this aren't I?
But you get the idea: this is your money. These are your expenses. Stop them from controlling you. I built this tool because I started to dislike money. Having it, not having, paying bills with it, etc. But no more. I want to feel "safe", whatever my balance is. And I hope this tool can help. I know it helps me.
You can contact me at [thegrumpydictator@gmail.com](mailto:thegrumpydictator@gmail.com), you may open an issue or contact me through the various social media pages there are: [reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/FireflyIII/), [Twitter](https://twitter.com/Firefly_III) and [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/FireflyIII/).
Over time, [many people have contributed to Firefly III](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/graphs/contributors).
We use [SemVer](https://semver.org/) for versioning. For the versions available, see [the tags](https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii/tags) on this repository.
OK that was a joke. You can donate using [PayPal](https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=44UKUT455HUFA) or [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/jc5).
If you are looking for alternatives, check out [Kickball's Awesome-Selfhosted list](https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted) which features not only Firefly III but also many other noteworthy alternatives.
