OpenBudgeteer
Budgeting app based on the Bucket Budgeting Principle.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 8% of tracked projects; popularity more than 34%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 972 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 1.11 · 17 Dec 2025 |
| Repo updated | 17 Dec 2025 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker, C# |
Is OpenBudgeteer actively maintained?
OpenBudgeteer logged 15 commits over the last 11 months, but none in the most recent quarter. Development has paused rather than stopped outright — worth watching before a production deployment.
The most recent tagged release, 1.11, is about 9 months old.
OpenBudgeteer ranks #42 of 43 tracked money, budgeting & management projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What OpenBudgeteer actually does
OpenBudgeteer is a self-hosted personal finance application that implements the bucket budgeting methodology. It helps you allocate your income into specific categories or pots to track spending and manage household funds. The software is written in C# and distributed as a container image.
Best fit: This tool is a suitable choice if you prefer containerised financial tracking and specifically want to use the bucket budgeting principle to manage your money.
Worth knowing: The project has low maintenance activity, which may result in delayed security patches or unaddressed bugs over time.
Deployment notes
You will typically need to configure persistent storage volumes for your financial data and place the container behind a reverse proxy to handle TLS termination.
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