Firefly III vs Ghostfolio

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.

Firefly III and Ghostfolio are closely matched on maintenance health (91 vs 90). Neither is the safer bet on activity alone, so choose on features, licence and the stack you already run.
Firefly IIIGhostfolio
Health score 91/100 90/100
Commits (11 mo) 2309 1416
Commits (last 3 mo) 607 651
Stars 25k 9.4k
Latest release 27 Sept 2026 27 Sept 2026
Licence AGPL-3.0 AGPL-3.0
Built with PHP, Docker Docker, Nodejs
Typical RAM 1 GB 1 GB

Firefly III

Firefly III is a modern financial manager. It helps you to keep track of your money and make budget forecasts. It supports credit cards, has an advanced rule engine and can import data from many banks.

91/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 36/40
Releases 25/25
Community 18/20
Momentum 12/15

Commit activity more than 91% of tracked projects; popularity more than 90%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 190 commits 2025-11: 164 commits 2025-12: 141 commits 2026-01: 291 commits 2026-02: 320 commits 2026-03: 312 commits 2026-04: 165 commits 2026-05: 119 commits 2026-06: 102 commits 2026-07: 268 commits 2026-08: 237 commits

Ghostfolio

Wealth management software to keep track of stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies.

90/100
Thriving

High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.

Maintenance 34/40
Releases 25/25
Community 16/20
Momentum 15/15

Commit activity more than 85% of tracked projects; popularity more than 78%. How this is calculated.

Commits, last 11 months

2025-10: 134 commits 2025-11: 84 commits 2025-12: 63 commits 2026-01: 79 commits 2026-02: 86 commits 2026-03: 131 commits 2026-04: 88 commits 2026-05: 100 commits 2026-06: 159 commits 2026-07: 246 commits 2026-08: 246 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.

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