Paisa

Personal finance manager built on plain-text double-entry accounting

Alternative to: Quicken, Mint, YNAB, Personal Capital

Paisa is a self-hosted personal finance manager built on top of the ledger plain-text double-entry accounting system. It helps you track expenses, budgets, investments, net worth, and retirement goals through a clean web interface, with support for ledger, hledger, and beancount journals.

Paisa Docker Compose example

Self-host Paisa on your own server, homelab, or VPS starting from this Docker Compose example. It runs Paisa in Docker containers using the official ananthakumaran/paisa:latest image, 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:
  paisa:
    image: ananthakumaran/paisa:latest
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - "7500:7500"
    environment:
      # Container timezone.
      TZ: "UTC"
    volumes:
      - data:/root/Documents/paisa

volumes:
  data:

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