Firefly III
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Firefly III, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Firefly III's own pricing page, checked 19 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Free and open source | Free | Self-hosted deployment · Docker deployment · REST JSON API · Budgets and financial reports |
| Firefly III | Free | Free and open source personal finance manager · self-hosted software |
The facts
Each one read from Firefly III's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- It provides a REST JSON API that covers almost every part of Firefly III.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Audience
- The project says it is for people who are tech-savvy, like open source software, and do not mind tinkering with self-hosted servers.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Bill tracking
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Bookkeeping
- It includes a double-entry bookkeeping system and piggy banks for saving toward goals.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Budgeting tools
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Import formats
- The Data Importer documentation describes importing CSV and CAMT.053 files, and imports from GoCardless or Spectre.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- Firefly III and its Data Importer are licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Net-worth tracking
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
- Organization
- It supports budgets, categories, tags, data imports, and financial reports.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The project describes Firefly III as self-hosted and isolated, and says it will not contact external servers unless explicitly told to.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Firefly III is a self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking expenses and income.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Rule limitation
- The rules documentation says complicated rules combining AND and OR operators are not supported.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Run options
- The project lists installation on a server, Docker, Kubernetes, and several third-party installation options.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Security
- The project lists two-factor authentication as an extra security feature.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project lists GitHub Discussions for questions and support, Gitter for chat, and GitHub Issues for bugs.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Transactions
- Users can create recurring transactions and rules to handle transactions automatically.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 19 Sep 2026
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