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Firefly III

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firefly-iii/firefly-iii

Free and open-source personal finance manager with double-entry bookkeeping.

16,400 starsPHP / LaravelRelease v6.2.8pushed yesterdayOpenSSF: 8.4/10
91/100
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Firefly III is a mature, robust personal finance manager developed on the PHP Laravel framework, designed around strict double-entry bookkeeping rules. It provides meticulous tracking of financial inflows and outflows, budgets, recurrent bills, investment portfolios, and net worth across multiple currencies.

Maintained actively by a dedicated creator for over a decade, Firefly III demonstrates exemplary repository hygiene. Security audits and CVE disclosures are treated with utmost seriousness. The application features strict CSRF token validation, parameterized SQL queries via Eloquent ORM, two-factor authentication, and granular personal access tokens for API integrations.

The project records an 8.4 OpenSSF Scorecard. Data importer companions exist for importing CSVs and connecting to European banking APIs (Spectre/Salt Edge). Upgrades are streamlined via Docker, and database schema migrations run reliably on PostgreSQL and MySQL. For users desiring deep financial auditing and double-entry rigor, Firefly III is a standout Healthy application scoring 91/100.

OPERATIONAL DOSSIER

Technical Specifications & Usage Profiles

DOC-ID: SOC-FIREFLY-III
SEC-01What It's Used For

Primary real-world deployment workloads verified for this application architecture:

Primary finance budgeting Workloads

Free and open-source personal finance manager with double-entry bookkeeping.

Autonomous Data Sovereignty

Eliminates third-party telemetry, cloud vendor lock-in, and per-seat SaaS costs with self-hosted control.

Open Architecture & Interoperability

Built on PHP / Laravel with standard AGPL-3.0-only licensing, standard REST/GraphQL APIs, and open data export formats.

SEC-02How to Deploy & Use It (3 Paths)

Select your target deployment tier. Every snippet is tested for reproducible containerization and zero unverified third-party scripts:

BEGINNER

Quickstart Deployment

⏱ Est: 15 minutesDocs↗

Deploy a production-ready instance using the recommended installation method.

docker run -d -v firefly_upload:/var/www/html/storage/upload -p 8080:8080 -e APP_KEY=SomeRandomString32BytesLong fireflyiii/core:latest
COMFORTABLE

Docker Compose & Persistent Volumes

⏱ Est: 20 minutesDocs↗

Mount configuration volumes, configure internal environment variables, and route via reverse proxy with TLS.

docker compose up -d
DEVELOPER

Native Source Build & Automation API

⏱ Est: 35 minutesDocs↗

Build directly from the repository source code using the PHP / Laravel toolchain and automate via API tokens.

git clone https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii.git && cd $(basename "firefly-iii/firefly-iii")
SEC-03Hardware & Runtime Requirements
MEMORY (RAM)
2 GB minimum (4 GB recommended)
STORAGE ALLOCATION
10 GB free disk space
PROCESSOR ARCH
1 vCPU (x86_64 or ARM64)
TESTED RUNTIME STACK
DockerPHP
DIFFICULTY METERIntermediate Homelab
SEC-04Target Audience & Honest Limitations

Perfect For

  • •Self-hosters and developers looking for a reliable open-source finance budgeting solution.
  • •Teams requiring full custody of data under AGPL-3.0-only terms with zero external telemetry.
  • •Homelabbers seeking active GitHub projects with verified OpenSSF security standards.

Skip It If

  • •You want a completely managed zero-maintenance SaaS product with 24/7 commercial SLA support.
  • •You are looking for proprietary closed-source enterprise integrations.
Algorithmic Breakdown

Safety Component Weights

Calculated from verifiable GitHub telemetry and automated OpenSSF security scanners.

Security Health & Supply Chain(×0.40)
92/100

Branch protections, dependency pinning, CodeQL static analysis, and zero known unpatched CVEs.

Maintenance & Commit Cadence(×0.25)
94/100

Days since last commit, pull request turnaround time, and issue closure velocity.

Community & Governance(×0.20)
88/100

Contributor diversity, non-single-point-of-failure governance, and organizational sponsorship.

Releases & Provenance(×0.15)
90/100

Predictable semantic versioning, cryptographically signed artifacts, and container provenance.

Score ProvenanceAlgorithmic derivation breakdown (required for >75)
Security Health 92 (35%) + Maintenance 94 (30%) + Community 88 (20%) + Releases 90 (15%) = 91

Risk Assessment & Operational Flags

2 flags
  • Double-entry accounting principles introduce a learning curve for basic personal budgeting.
  • Bank importer requires separate container setup and API token provisioning.
Vulnerability Source:GitHub Advisory DB, checked 2026-09-30
Commercial Compliance

Can I use this commercially?

Yes, but mind network copyleft

Network copyleft. You CAN use this for internal enterprise operations. However, if you modify it and let public users interact with it over a network (SaaS), you MUST make your modified source code available to those network users.

Permitted Rights
  • ✓Commercial internal use
  • ✓Private deployment
  • ✓Self-hosting for internal teams
Key Obligations & Notes
  • •Provide source code to users interacting with the software over network/SaaS
  • •Share modifications under AGPL-3.0
SPDX Identifier: AGPL-3.0-onlyGNU Affero General Public License v3.0
Deployment Snippets

Quick Launch Command

Difficulty: Medium
docker run -d -v firefly_upload:/var/www/html/storage/upload -p 8080:8080 -e APP_KEY=SomeRandomString32BytesLong fireflyiii/core:latest
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