Firefly III vs Trout
Firefly III
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| Figure | Firefly III | Trout |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | €4.92/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 7 |
| Spec score · Budgeting And Expense Tracking | 8.3 (#7) | 8.2 (#12) |
| Spec score · Personal Finance Software | 8.3 (#51) | 8.8 (#15) |
| Budgeting tools | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Net-worth tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Privacy | The project describes Firefly III as self-hosted and isolated, and says it will not contact external servers unless explicitly told to. | The hosted service says it does not sell data, show advertising, or use financial data to train machine-learning models. |
| Purpose | Firefly III is a self-hosted personal finance manager for tracking expenses and income. | Trout is an envelope-budgeting ledger for people who want to own their money and data. |
| Security | The project lists two-factor authentication as an extra security feature. | The privacy policy says passwords are hashed with scrypt, transport uses TLS, and provider secrets are encrypted at rest. |
| Support | The project lists GitHub Discussions for questions and support, Gitter for chat, and GitHub Issues for bugs. | The maker provides a GitHub bug-report link and lists an email address for privacy and data requests. |
Plans
Trout
- FreeFree
- Hosted Monthly€7 a month
- Hosted Annual€59 a year
- Manual budgetingFree
- Self-hostedFree
- Hosted monthly€7 a month
- Hosted annual€59 a year
In their own words
Firefly III
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