moneymanagerexProductivity
Money Manager Ex
A cross-platform personal finance app for accounts, budgets, cash-flow forecasts, and reports, backed by a portable SQLite database.
- Data analysis
- Productivity
- Desktop
- Mobile
- Windows
- macOS
- Linux
- iOS
- Android
- Runs locally
- Docker supported
- Popularity
- 2.3k Stars
- GitHub stars
- Recent activity
- 10/2/2026
- Updated in the last 30 days
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Strong copyleft
Why it matters
We look beyond stars: what problem it solves, whether it creates real utility, and what makes its approach worth noticing.
Problem
Addresses long-term daily personal needs for asset recording, categorization, and expense tracking through an open-source local solution.
Practical value
Supports multiple account types, budgeting, cash flow forecasting, and CSV/QIF imports, covering most basic financial tracking scenarios.
Innovation / differentiation
A mature traditional desktop and mobile bookkeeping tool without breakthrough conceptual innovations in architecture or features.
Leverage potential
Uses SQLite storage with AES encryption and supports both desktop and mobile platforms, offering high data autonomy.
Why now
A long-term maintained mature open-source project with no specific time-window dependencies.
Community activity
In the last 90 days there were 103 new issues and 60 pull requests; the bounded issue/PR samples include 79 issue authors and 8 PR contributors, with at least 2 releases.
Maintainer responsiveness
The 100-issue window sample had a 45% close rate, and the 60-pull-request sample had a 98% merge rate. Maintainer-response observations covered 38% of that issue sample, with a 13% response rate and median first response of 1.7 days.
Key highlights
- Checking, credit-card, savings, investment, and asset accounts
- Nested categories, split-transaction tags, and recurring bill/deposit reminders
- Budgets, cash-flow forecasts, charts, and custom reports
Quick start
How it is installed, how hard it is, and where to start.
Where it runs
Runs locally
Difficulty
Easy — follow the steps
- 01Choose the desktop build from the website/GitHub Releases, or use the documented app-store/F-Droid path on mobile.
- 02Create a database with accounts, categories, and budgets; import existing records from CSV or QIF if needed.
- 03For real financial data, enable database encryption and back up the SQLite data file regularly.
Best for
- Developers who want to try it on their machine
- People who prefer Docker deploys
More about it
Money Manager Ex (MMEX) is a long-running personal finance application focused on organizing accounts and cash flow without tying the workflow to a single financial provider. It supports checking, credit-card, savings, investment, and asset accounts, with nested categories, tags on split transactions, scheduled bill reminders, budgets, cash-flow forecasting, charts, and custom reports. Existing records can be imported from CSV or QIF. Desktop data is kept in SQLite with an encryption option, and portable builds are available. The project documents desktop downloads for Windows, macOS, and Linux as well as Android and iOS clients, making it useful for people who prefer to keep their finance records under their own control.
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capability tags
Verifieddata_analysis, productivity
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
Latest release
Verifiedv1.9.4
Source: GitHub API · latest_release=v1.9.4 · 10/3/2026
License
VerifiedGPL-2.0
Source: GitHub API · license.spdx_id=GPL-2.0 · 10/3/2026
needs api key
VerifiedNo
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
One-liner
Verified{"en":"A cross-platform personal finance app for accounts, budgets, cash-flow forecasts, and reports, backed by a portable SQLite database.","zh":"跨平台个人财务管理软件，用账户、预算、现金流预测和报表管理日常收支，数据保存在 SQLite 文件中。"}
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
Platforms
Verifiedwindows, macos, linux, ios, android
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
Category hint
Inferred from materialssecurity
Source: Project README · hint=security · 8/17/2026
product forms
Verifieddesktop, mobile
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
role tags
VerifiedSource: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
supports docker
VerifiedYes
Source: Repository file · dockerfile=true; compose=false · 10/3/2026
supports local
VerifiedYes
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
supports self host
VerifiedNo
Source: admin_cms · cms editor · 8/17/2026
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