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Actual Budget

by Actual Core Contributors

Your Finances made simple

Sandboxed Verified creator MIT v26.9.0
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About

Actual Budget is a fast, privacy-focused finance app based on the Envelope Budgeting method. It prioritizes user control, allowing you to manage your data independently with multi-device sync and optional end-to-end encryption. The app emphasizes user involvement over automation, offering quick, intuitive tools while keeping you in charge of your financial decisions.

Designed for speed, Actual Budget has a streamlined interface that minimizes distractions, making it easy to navigate your finances. It operates locally, ensuring functionality without a network connection while syncing data across devices. This local-first approach also enhances privacy through end-to-end encryption.

The budgeting system is grounded in real income, helping you track spending and savings accurately. The app simplifies managing transactions with a minimal, efficient interface, supporting features like split transactions and transfers. Additionally, Actual Budget offers customizable reports alongside default net worth and cash flow reports, enabling users to analyze your finances in a way that suits you.

Permissions

Everything this app can reach outside its sandbox. Nothing here weakens it.

  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • network
    --share=network
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • access to your documents folder
    --filesystem=xdg-documents

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source (x2)
    source:prebuilt
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.