Firefly III vs Ghostfolio
Firefly III and Ghostfolio are both personal finance software. Firefly III is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 25k GitHub stars. Ghostfolio is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.6k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Firefly III when
- You want detailed control over personal finances and accept entering or importing transactions yourself.
- Pick Ghostfolio when
- You invest across several brokers and want one private portfolio view, self-hosted or as a paid hosted service.
Side by side
A self-hosted personal finance manager using double-entry bookkeeping, with budgets, categories, rules, recurring transactions and reports.
A wealth management app that tracks stocks, ETFs and crypto holdings across accounts and shows performance, allocation and dividends.
Run largely by one developer, and the double-entry model has a learning curve for casual budgeters.
Market data comes from external providers whose limits can affect accuracy, and some features are reserved for the paid plan.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server
Self-hosted server and cloud service
PHP, Laravel, MySQL and PostgreSQL
TypeScript, Angular, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL and Redis
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft) (both)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes. (both)
25k GitHub stars
9.6k GitHub stars
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v6.7.9.
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 3.97.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.