Actual Budget

Your Finances — made simple

Actual Budget is a super fast and privacy-focused app for managing your finances. At its heart is the well proven and much loved Envelope Budgeting methodology.
You own your data and can do whatever you want with it. Featuring multi-device sync, optional end-to-end encryption and so much more.

Be involved in your financial decisions

Automated finance tools are great, except when they aren’t. We provide you with tools that are quick to use, but ultimately

you are in control. We help you learn, instead of dictating.

Meticulously designed for speed

A beautifully designed interface is fine-tuned to get out of your way and make it as fast as possible to explore your finances.

Unabashedly local-first software

Actual is a local app, plain and simple. Your data is synced in the background so all devices have access, but the app totally works regardless of your network connection. This also allows

end-to-end encryption

to keep your data private.

Powerful budgeting made simple

Save hundreds of dollars a year (at least!) by tracking your spending.

Based on tried and true methods, our budgeting system is based off of your real income instead of made up numbers. This makes you face your real spending, and clearly shows how much you are saving each month. We make this process as simple as possible.

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The fastest way to manage transactions

Breeze through your transactions and update them easily with a streamlined, minimal interface. Categorizing your transactions correctly is important and we’ve optimized this process. Manage split transactions and transfers all in the same editor.

Oh my, the reports

Intuitive reports give you a quick way to learn about your finances. By default, we include net worth and cash flow reports, but soon you’ll be able to create any report that you like. You’ll even be able to download custom reports from others.

So many features

Everything in one place

Add all of your accounts and track everything in one place. Get valuable information like net worth from all your accounts together. Learn more

Syncing across devices

Self-host our syncing service. It’s easy to set up, but uses sophisticated distributed systems technology to sync changes across any number of devices. Learn more

Payees

Manage payees quickly. Merge them, set up custom rules for how they are matched, and use default categories to automatically categorize transactions. Learn more

Split transactions

Use split transactions to separate a single expense into multiple categories. An inline editor makes this seamless.

Bank Sync

Actual has built in support for bank syncing using goCardless (EU/UK) and SimpleFIN (US/Canada). Community importers are also available for Plaid. Learn more

Budgeting

Track your spending with budgets. You can only budget cash you have on hand, which means your budget stays realistic and you don't make numbers up. Learn more

Transfers

Manage transfers easily by creating transfer transactions. Actual will link the transactions on both sides and update them together. Learn more

Importing Transactions

Import transactions from the most popular financial files: QIF, OFX, QFX, and CSV. Soon we will launch bank syncing to automatically download transactions. Learn more

Undo & redo

A robust undo system allows you to rollback any changes you make, and redo them if desired. Never worry about making mistakes. Learn more

Migrate your data

We provide builtin YNAB4 & nYNAB importers that keep all of your history. There are many more available from the Actual Community. Learn more

Dark Mode

Choose your own style with a built in dark mode and dynamic theming using your system default.

API

If you're a developer, we got you. Use our fully-featured API to write custom importers or build your own features. This API simply runs on your local data. Learn more

Own your data

Actual allows you to effortlessly sync changes by running your own server. Access updates from anywhere with peace of mind. For those seeking next-level security, our optional end-to-end encryption ensures your data remains unreadable, even to the server.