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Actual - Self Hosted, Privacy Friendly Financial Planning System

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    wrote on last edited by Sydney
    #1

    Actual is a self hosted, open source financial planning and budgeting system. It's designed to be fast, local-first, and privacy friendly, and has a lot of powerful features for budgeting and financial planning.

    The Actual application was originally a closed-source software offering by James Long, but it has been recently released as an open source application under the MIT license.

    The actual website and landing page is available at:

    https://actualbudget.com/

    And their source code is available at:

    https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server

    https://github.com/actualbudget/actual

    Actual already comes with a Docker image:

    https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server#running-via-docker

    They have an online demo that you can use to try out the features here:

    https://app.actualbudget.com/

    I recommend Cloudron to package Actual, because it is a modern, high-quality financial planning app that adds value to a category that Cloudron does not have many applications in. Actual is fast, and unusually powerful, and has a great feature-set and UX/UI experience.

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    @Sydney nice!

    Although given it's a local app I guess it's actually the actual-server we'd need packaging for Cloudron:

    https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server

    I use Cloudron with Gandi & Hetzner

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    @jdaviescoates Thank you!

    I'll edit the main post to include the correct link. I am quite excited for Actual, as it is quite polished and well-made- and I hope to see it on Cloudron soon!

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    Neat app. I wonder how it compares to firefly iii

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    It will be really great if this app could be packaged before the start of June. I'll be beginning a new job then, and it would be a good time to upgrade my budgeting workflow 😉

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    @Sydney Cool find.

    While Firefly is actually a great software, I think Actual would be a great addition as well. I too love the modern flat design, efficient and fast.


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    Actual ++

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    Wow. What a software!

    I currently use quicken, but would switch to this in an instant if it was available.

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    Seems nice, it's quite similar to YNAB, isn't it? Well, definitely more than Firefly III.

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    @Sydney Great suggestion and nicely formatted. I think it always must encourage people here if you mention that there is already a Docker image available, which there is:

    https://github.com/actualbudget/actual-server#running-via-docker

    I hope we get this going.

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    @LoudLemur Thank you very much! I'll update the post to include the docker image link.

    I'm glad to see so much interest for Actual. I am really looking forwards to seeing it on Cloudron as well!

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    I tried the demo and it looks great.
    Is there a way that I can test it on my server?

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    #13

    I've packaged the app, but I'm not sure what to do next.
    The repo can be found here:
    https://github.com/thejinx0r/actual-server-cloudron

    It's been working great for me.

    edit:
    I continue to maintain it at https://git.eyen.ca/cloudron/actual-server

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    @random_eric get a review by @girish or @nebulon 🙂 At first glance it looks good but I think /app/data should be owned by www-data who also runs the apps process. Maybe adjust the start script and Dockerfile for better continuity,

    btw the Cloudron user is called yellowtent internally ^^

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    @subven
    Thanks for the feedback!
    For the user, I was following the nodejs tutorial. I'm not sure whihch one to use at the moment.

    Anyways, I'll wait for feedback from @girish or @nebulon

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    @random_eric Ah nice, I will give this a try later today! Actual doesn't need any database configuration and such?

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    @girish they use better-sqlite3 but store everything in /data ^^ The app is not designed to use an external database connection as far as I can see.

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    @girish Hi there! Congratulations on the recent 7.3.x release. Is there any information on adding Actual to the Cloudron app store? I would very much like to use it 🙂

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