Introducing Actualist - a native Actual Budget app for iOS
A few weeks back I mentioned in a comment here that I was working on a native iOS client for Actual Budget. It’s open source and syncs with your Actual Budget server.
I originally built Actualist for my wife and me because I wanted to get off the YNAB subscription and wanted a proper native iPhone app for Actual Budget. If you’ve used YNAB, it should feel familiar. Budgeting, transactions (including splits and transfers), accounts, payees management, and native reports all work, plus encrypted budgets. Reconciliation, rule preview, and triggering bank imports aren't in yet. I intend to keep adding features until it reaches parity with the web app. I’ve been using it daily for my budget for the last several weeks, so I figured I’d open the TestFlight to anyone else who might enjoy it.
For transparency, I’ve used AI coding agents extensively throughout development. I still direct the architecture, make the product decisions, review the results, and test it against my own real-world budget.
It is beta, so backup your budget first or use a test budget. I’ve been using it with no issues against my live budget, but I also run daily backups just in case.
TestFlight: actualist.app (https://testflight.apple.com/join/HDG6PcGX)
GitHub: source.actualist.app (https://github.com/sporez/actualist)