Expensave

Self-hosted expense tracker for personal and family budget management

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Alternative to: ynab, mint, monarch money, dollarbird

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Expensave is a free, open-source, self-hosted expense tracker for personal and family budget management. It tracks spending on a shared calendar, supports multiple users and unlimited expense calendars, and can import bank statements in OFX/QFX, ISO 20022 XML, Revolut, and Dollarbird formats. Recurring expenses and spending reports help households monitor their finances, with a responsive UI and an installable mobile PWA.

Expensave Docker Compose example

Self-host Expensave on your own server, homelab, or VPS starting from this Docker Compose example. It runs Expensave in Docker containers using the official algirdasc/expensave:latest, mariadb:11 images, with persistent volumes and automatic restarts preconfigured. Review the environment variables and adjust them to your setup, save the file as compose.yml (or docker-compose.yml), and start the stack with docker compose up -d.

services:
  application:
    image: algirdasc/expensave:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      # UI language as an ISO 639-1 code (e.g. en, lt, de, fr).
      LOCALE: "en"
      # Set to "yes" to disable public self-registration; new users must then be created from within the app.
      REGISTRATION_DISABLED: "no"
      # Container timezone as an IANA name (e.g. UTC, Europe/London).
      TZ: "UTC"
    depends_on:
      database:
        condition: service_healthy

  database:
    image: mariadb:11
    restart: unless-stopped
    environment:
      # Generate a random MariaDB root password on first init; the app uses the dedicated user below, not root.
      MARIADB_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD: "yes"
      # Database name — must match the application's built-in DATABASE_NAME default.
      MARIADB_DATABASE: "expensave"
      # Database user — must match the application's built-in DATABASE_USER default.
      MARIADB_USER: "expensave"
      # Database password — reachable only inside the compose network; must match the app's built-in DATABASE_PASS default.
      MARIADB_PASSWORD: "expensave"
    volumes:
      - db_data:/var/lib/mysql
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD", "mariadb-admin", "ping"]
      retries: 5
      timeout: 5s

volumes:
  db_data:

Prefer a managed setup? WinterFlow installs, configures, and updates Expensave for you using this same Docker Compose configuration.