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Personal-finance projects on GitHub

Self-hosted budgeting and personal finance tracking applications.

As of October 19, 2026, the most-starred Personal-finance projects on GitHub are HowToLiveBetter (65.8K stars), maybe (54.2K stars) and actual (29.6K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 17 Personal-finance repositories with 242.7K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 17 was HowToLiveBetter, with +704 stars in a day.

17Projects

242.7KStars in total

+872Stars in a day

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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 17

+704

HowToLiveBetter

eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter · ★ 65.8K

An evidence-based life guide for mainland China: 677 tips across 34 sections covering health, money, law, work and family, ranked by cost-effectiveness, each citing only journal papers or official documents.

+66

Financial_freedom

codeman008/Financial_freedom · ★ 7.5K

This is a curated Markdown guide that lists top investing and personal-finance books plus top-rated financial documentaries, organized from beginner to advanced, to help readers build long-term financial literacy.

+23

actual

actualbudget/actual · ★ 29.6K

Actual Budget is a local-first personal finance app built around envelope budgeting. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, and syncs your changes between devices.

+15

sure

we-promise/sure · ★ 10.6K

Sure is a free, self-hostable personal finance app — a community-maintained fork of Maybe Finance, which its original team open-sourced after spending nearly $1 million building it.

The all-time top

17 projects · by stars

#1 · eternity4719/HowToLiveBetter
HowToLiveBetter
An evidence-based life guide for mainland China: 677 tips across 34 sections covering health, money, law, work and family, ranked by cost-effectiveness, each citing only journal papers or official documents.
65.8K
#2 · maybe-finance/maybe
maybe
Maybe is a personal finance app that anyone can self-host with Docker to track their finances.
54.2K
#3 · actualbudget/actual
actual
Actual Budget is a local-first personal finance app built around envelope budgeting. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, and syncs your changes between devices.
29.6K

4
firefly-iii
24.9Kfirefly-iii/firefly-iii · PHP
Firefly III is a free, open-source personal finance manager that helps you track income and expenses, set budgets, and generate financial reports.
5
kkndme_tianya
19.5Kkkndmetianya/kkndme_tianya
A Markdown archive of kkndme's famous Tianya forum thread on China's 2010 housing-price controls — a condensed edition kept in the original thread's chronological order, which also preserves the best replies from other users.
6
og-equity-compensation
11.5Kjlevy/og-equity-compensation
This is 'The Open Guide to Equity Compensation,' a long-form reference guide covering stock options, RSUs, and the taxes around them for employees negotiating equity at startups and private companies, originally built as a GitHub project and now published on Holloway.
7
sure
10.6Kwe-promise/sure · Ruby
Sure is a free, self-hostable personal finance app — a community-maintained fork of Maybe Finance, which its original team open-sourced after spending nearly $1 million building it.
8
chinese-buy-us-stock-guide
7.7Kzgwl/chinese-buy-us-stock-guide
It's a guide written for mainland Chinese investors explaining how to buy US stocks: opening bank and broker accounts, understanding tax rules, staying compliant, picking a broker, and moving money in and out of the US.
9
Financial_freedom
7.5Kcodeman008/Financial_freedom
This is a curated Markdown guide that lists top investing and personal-finance books plus top-rated financial documentaries, organized from beginner to advanced, to help readers build long-term financial literacy.
10
aurelio-finance
4KLosaLosSantos/aurelio-finance · Python
Aurelio is a self-hosted personal finance app that tracks your net worth, investments, ETFs, cash and debts, plus an optional AI financial advisor you can chat with.
11
investing-for-beginners
3.8Kxuchonglang/investing-for-beginners
A free Chinese-language guide that builds a knowledge framework for beginners on US stocks, options, and cryptocurrency, written by one author (徐冲浪) rather than compiled from external sources.
12
OpenTerminal
1.8KErTasselli/OpenTerminal · TypeScript
OpenTerminal is a self-hosted, terminal-style trading dashboard that aggregates free public market data for stocks, crypto, and macro indicators into one keyboard-driven workspace, with no paid API keys or subscriptions required.
13
trade-journal
507LuxAlgo/trade-journal · TypeScript
Trade Journal is an open-source, self-hosted trading journal that turns broker syncs, statement imports, or manual entries into round-trip trades, a P&L calendar, deep analytics, and an AI-assisted daily journal.
14
how-to-survive-unemployment
389AIPMAndy/how-to-survive-unemployment · HTML
It is a free, open-source Chinese-language handbook for surviving a layoff, covering severance (N/N+1/2N), unemployment insurance, medical insurance, housing fund, job search and family cash flow, with 50 action tasks and 6 practical SOPs plus original Beijing and Shanghai policy texts.
15
bankmcp
289noskillish/bankmcp · TypeScript
BankMCP is a self-hosted, read-only MCP server that lets your AI assistant (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc.) query your own bank accounts through the Enable Banking PSD2 API, which covers over 2,700 European banks.
16
all-set-tw
282TedLin1993/all-set-tw · TypeScript
ALL SET (all-set-tw) is a self-hosted personal finance hub for Taiwan that automatically syncs your bank accounts, credit cards, brokerage holdings, and government e-invoices into one dashboard, so you can stop bookkeeping by hand.
17
Aurum
258Zproger/Aurum · TypeScript
Aurum is a self-hosted personal finance OS that tracks cash flow, net worth, budgets, subscriptions, assets, and crypto holdings in one real-time dashboard.