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ActualBudget features
What you can do with ActualBudget, fully managed by Elestio.
What you can do with ActualBudget, fully managed by Elestio.
Actual Budget helps you manage personal finances using the well-established envelope budgeting method, where every dollar is assigned to a category ("budgeted") before it's spent. It's local-first: your financial data lives on your own server rather than a third party's cloud, and syncs across your own devices without a subscription. The app has no separate username, access is controlled by a single server-wide password, set and changed through a simple bootstrap process on first boot. It runs as a single lightweight container with all data stored in a mounted volume, making it easy to back up and restore. It's a self-hosted alternative to commercial budgeting apps like YNAB, for users who want full ownership of their financial data.
Built around the well-proven, much-loved envelope budgeting methodology for managing your money.
Your financial data stays with you, not in someone else's cloud, and syncs across your own devices.
A super fast app for day-to-day budgeting, built for speed rather than a heavy web dashboard.
Run your own server with Docker, and own your entire budgeting setup end to end.
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