Bigcapital
Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 77% of tracked projects; popularity more than 62%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 3.9k |
|---|---|
| Latest release | v0.25.42 · 23 Sept 2026 |
| Repo updated | 23 Sept 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is Bigcapital actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 859 commits, of which 385 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 128 commits a month.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 104% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v0.25.42, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 43 projects we track in Money, Budgeting & Management, Bigcapital ranks #9 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Bigcapital actually does
Bigcapital is a self-hosted platform designed for managing financial accounting and inventory operations. It helps small to medium businesses track their monetary transactions and stock levels within a single system.
Best fit: Small businesses and self-hosted administrators looking for an open-source alternative to proprietary accounting and inventory tools.
Worth knowing: The AGPL-3.0 license imposes strict copyleft requirements if you modify the code and offer it as a service over a network, and the software faces competition from well-established commercial ERPs.
Deployment notes
As a containerised application, it typically requires persistent storage volumes for database records and a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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