I spent the last couple months building an open-source budgeting app, finally at a point where I’m happy with the UI!
I’ve been using budgeting and personal finance apps for years, and I’ve always liked tracking where my money is going. Over time I ended up trying a bunch of different tools and kept wishing I could combine the parts I liked from each of them into one app.
So for the past couple months I’ve been building FlyBudget, a free, private, open-source budgeting app inspired by tools like Monarch, YNAB, Mint, and a few others.
I wanted something that felt polished, but could also be self-hosted and completely controlled by the user.
The frontend is built with React, TypeScript, and Tailwind, and I’ve probably spent an unreasonable amount of time tweaking the UI.
Some of the stuff I’ve built so far:
- Monthly budgeting
- Account + transaction tracking
- Recurring transaction detection
- Cash flow / Sankey reports
- Custom reports
- Self-hosting with Docker
- Desktop app
- Demo instance so you can try it without installing anything
- Full documentation site
This is also my first real attempt at building an open-source project, so I’m still figuring out that side of things.
Would genuinely love feedback from other web devs, especially on the UI/UX, project structure, or anything that immediately looks like it could be improved. If you find the project interesting, please consider helping us out by giving a star on GitHub!
Demo + docs: flybudget.org
GitHub: github.com/dtymoszenko/FlyBudget