Ghostfolio vs Quicken Classic
Ghostfolio and Quicken Classic are both personal finance software. Ghostfolio is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 9.6k GitHub stars. Quicken Classic is a commercial product from Quicken Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick Ghostfolio when
- You invest across several brokers and want one private portfolio view, self-hosted or as a paid hosted service.
- Pick Quicken Classic when
- You are in the US or Canada and want detailed desktop tracking of accounts and investments with long history.
Side by side
A wealth management app that tracks stocks, ETFs and crypto holdings across accounts and shows performance, allocation and dividends.
Desktop personal finance software for tracking bank accounts, bills, investments and budgets, with a business and rental property edition.
Market data comes from external providers whose limits can affect accuracy, and some features are reserved for the paid plan.
Subscription now required, bank connection issues are common, and it is mainly for North America.
Production-ready (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Desktop app and mobile app
TypeScript, Angular, NestJS, Prisma, PostgreSQL and Redis
Not published
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source, sold by Quicken Inc.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
9.6k GitHub stars
780 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release 3.97.0.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.