Family Accounting Tool vs Fava

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Family Accounting Tool		Fava
	Project
1	Mentions	42
173	Stars	1,810
-	Growth	2.3%
7.2	Activity	9.1
5 months ago	Latest Commit	9 days ago
Scala	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Family Accounting Tool

Posts with mentions or reviews of Family Accounting Tool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-08-07.

(Selfhosted) money splitting / expense splitting solution
4 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Aug 2022

https://github.com/nymanjens/facto Didn't try it but looks promising. However it doesn't seem to be used a lot (based on the github stars).

Fava

Posts with mentions or reviews of Fava. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-24.

Ledger
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Feb 2024

I’ve been using beancount for almost 1.5 years now, and other than having to explicitly open accounts I love it! I use the fava UI to have all the nice modern visuals: https://beancount.github.io/fava/
Kiadasok/Bevetelek
2 projects | /r/kiszamolo | 9 May 2023
Recommendations for easy financial management
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Mar 2023

I used Beancount + Fava for a web UI for years. It stores everything in plaintext files, but the downside is you either have to manually enter everything or probably write a script to import csv/qfx from your bank(s).
Finanse domowe
2 projects | /r/Polska | 9 Feb 2023
Trying to get started...
3 projects | /r/plaintextaccounting | 18 Jan 2023

I suggest you take a look at fava. I don't think its data entry is good for you but the data visualization is pretty great.
What's your recommended budgeting app? (2023)
2 projects | /r/AusFinance | 10 Jan 2023
I'm looking for a software to visualize how much money I have
3 projects | /r/software | 1 Dec 2022

And the following are interfaces of Beancount: Fava, a well-known UI
Personal budgeting apps
1 project | /r/eupersonalfinance | 24 Nov 2022

If you’re tech savvy, you could try beancount + fava web interface. https://beancount.github.io/fava/
Verwendet ihr Apps um eure ausgaben zu tracken?
3 projects | /r/Finanzen | 23 Nov 2022
Any privacy oriented budgeting apps?
1 project | /r/privacy | 18 Sep 2022

I use Beancount myself (heavily supported by custom scripts). Plain text accounting options are not very user-friendly out of the box in my opinion. Beancount has a self-hosted web app called Fava that's good if you want a GUI. I believe there is something similar for ledger.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Family Accounting Tool and Fava you can also consider the following projects:

Firefly III - Firefly III: a personal finances manager

Akaunting - Online Accounting Software

Budget App - Open source personal budgeting application

Kresus - Get rich, or die codin'

beancount-import - Web UI for semi-automatically importing external data into beancount

Economizzer - Open Source Personal Finance Manager

beancount - Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files.

IHateMoney - A simple shared budget manager web application

GLPI - GLPI is a Free Asset and IT Management Software package, Data center management, ITIL Service Desk, licenses tracking and software auditing.

SilverStrike - Finance Management Made Easy