ezbookkeeping

A lightweight self-hosted bookkeeping app for personal finances, with mobile-friendly PWA screens, charts, imports and AI receipt recognition.

6k stars, 746 forks Go On GitHub since October 2020

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ezbookkeeping at a glance

Open sourceYes, MITNo paid parts in the repository
Health83 of 100Actively developed
Self-hostingDocker, Desktop appsSteps in the README
AppsWindows, Linux, macOS, including ARMBuilds in GitHub releases
Interface23 languagesIncluding English, German and French
Issue repliesWithin ~2 hoursMedian first reply; 97% of recent issues answered

What is ezbookkeeping?

ezBookkeeping records daily income and spending in two levels of accounts and categories, with image attachments, map locations and scheduled transactions. You can import data from other sources, filter and search bills, and analyze history with built-in charts or your own chart dimensions. Separate layouts serve phones and desktops, and as a progressive web app it can sit on a home screen like a native app. AI features read text and receipt photos, generate charts and expose an MCP server. The app is localized into 22 languages.

Good fit if

  • You want a personal expense tracker that runs on a Raspberry Pi or NAS with little memory.
  • You log spending mainly from your phone.

Look elsewhere if

  • You budget with envelopes or zero-based planning: Actual Budget.
  • You need business accounting and invoices: Bigcapital.

Before you adopt it

ezBookkeeping is MIT-licensed with no paid parts. One developer writes nearly all of it. It starts with a single Docker command and works with SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL; builds also exist for Windows, Linux and macOS.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 31 October 2026. Report a correction

How to run ezbookkeeping yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
None in the repository
Setup effort
Not rated: no compose file to judge from
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
Builds for Windows, Linux, macOS, including ARM in GitHub releases
Interface languages
23 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Turkish
Show all 23

Breton, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

Install instructions: ezbookkeeping.mayswind.net or the README on GitHub.

ezbookkeeping health: is it still maintained?

83 of 100, actively developed

Release rhythmEvery ~19 days13 releases in 12 months; latest v2.1.1
Issue repliesWithin ~2 hoursMedian first reply; 97% of recent issues answered
Bus factorHigh riskThe most active of 5 authors wrote 95% of recent commits
  • Activity
    309 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 3 November 2026.
    30 / 30
  • Contributors
    5 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 95% of them.
    10 / 20
  • Releases
    13 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v2.1.1, on 23 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 97% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 2 hours.
    20 / 20
  • Security practices
    OpenSSF Scorecard 4.3 of 10.
    4 / 10

Read from GitHub on 5 November 2026. How the score works

ezbookkeeping security practices

OpenSSF Scorecard checks how a project is developed and released: reviews, protected branches, pinned dependencies, signed releases. It does not audit the code itself.

OpenSSF Scorecard4.3 of 10How the project is built and released
Security policyNoNo SECURITY.md or similar
Signed releasesNoDownloads cannot be checked against a signature

What each check found

  • Binary files10 / 10No compiled binaries checked into the repository
  • Dangerous workflows10 / 10No risky patterns in GitHub Actions
  • License file10 / 10A license file is present
  • Maintained10 / 10Steady commits and issue activity in the last 90 days
  • Packaging10 / 10Releases are published as packages from CI
  • Code review1 / 10Some changes are merged without review
  • Best-practices badge0 / 10No OpenSSF Best Practices badge
  • Fuzzing0 / 10No fuzz testing found
  • Pinned dependencies0 / 10Dependencies are not pinned to fixed versions
  • Security policy0 / 10No security policy
  • Signed releases0 / 10Releases are not signed
  • Static analysis0 / 10No static analysis found
  • Token permissions0 / 10CI tokens have broad write rights

From the OpenSSF Scorecard of 19 October 2026. Checks that do not apply to ezbookkeeping are left out.

ezbookkeeping license: is it open source?

ezbookkeeping uses MIT, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. October 2020First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayMIT.

ezbookkeeping for developers

Written in

  • Go 39%
  • Vue 33%
  • TypeScript 25%
  • SCSS 1%
  • PowerShell <1%
  • Other 1%

Getting involved

Contributing guideNot foundNo CONTRIBUTING file in the repository
Open issues16On GitHub
Authors, 90 days5Of the latest 100 commits

Language shares are GitHub’s count of the code in the repository.

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Questions about ezbookkeeping

Is ezbookkeeping open source?

Yes. ezbookkeeping is published under MIT, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is ezbookkeeping still maintained?

Its health score is 83 of 100 (actively developed). It had 309 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 3 November 2026, and its latest release came out on 23 October 2026.

How do I run ezbookkeeping?

You can run it with Docker, as an app for Windows, Linux, macOS, including ARM. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What is ezbookkeeping written in?

ezbookkeeping is written in Go (39% of the code), with Vue (33%) and TypeScript (25%), by GitHub’s count of the repository.

What languages is ezbookkeeping available in?

The repository has interface translations for 23 languages, including English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish and Russian.

What are the alternatives to ezbookkeeping?

Close alternatives in the Money & budgeting category include Firefly III, Akaunting, Actual Budget.