Actual vs Sure

Both are self-hosted money, budgeting & management projects. This page compares how well each one is actually maintained — the part you cannot see from a feature list.

Actual and Sure are closely matched on maintenance health (85 vs 87). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
ActualSure
Health score 85/100 87/100
Commits (11 mo) 1398 1567
Commits (last 3 mo) 342 608
Stars 29k 10k
Latest release 1 Sept 2026 26 Sept 2026
Licence MIT AGPL-3.0
Built with Nodejs, Docker Docker
Typical RAM 2 GB 1 GB

Actual

Local-first personal finance tool based on zero-sum budgeting, supporting synchronization across devices, custom rules, manual transaction importing (from QIF, OFX, and QFX files), and optional automatic synchronization with many banks.

85/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 8/15

Commit activity more than 85% of tracked projects; popularity more than 91%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 106 commits 2025-11: 123 commits 2025-12: 110 commits 2026-01: 136 commits 2026-02: 117 commits 2026-03: 118 commits 2026-04: 182 commits 2026-05: 164 commits 2026-06: 165 commits 2026-07: 88 commits 2026-08: 89 commits

Sure

Personal finance application for everyone (fork of Maybe).

87/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 35/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 87% of tracked projects; popularity more than 79%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 0 commits 2025-11: 0 commits 2025-12: 0 commits 2026-01: 303 commits 2026-02: 143 commits 2026-03: 140 commits 2026-04: 132 commits 2026-05: 241 commits 2026-06: 271 commits 2026-07: 122 commits 2026-08: 215 commits

How to read this

Everything above is measured, not opinion: commit counts and release dates come from the public repositories, and the health score ranks each project against all 1352 projects we track. Read the full method.

What this comparison deliberately does not do is tell you which has the better feature set. Maintenance health tells you which project will still be receiving security fixes in two years. Decide that first, then compare features on the projects that survive the filter.

See every option in this category: self-hosted money, budgeting & management.