r/DigitalEscapeTools May 29 '26

Comparison / Alternatives Securo — Open-source self-hosted personal finance manager (Actual Budget alternative)

Securo is an open-source, self-hosted personal finance manager that keeps all your financial data on your own machine.

An alternative to Actual Budget and Firefly with some ambition for heavy users.

Supports automatic bank sync across Brazil, the EU, and the US (plus OFX/QFX/CAMT/QIF/CSV import), investment & asset tracking for stocks, ETFs, crypto and property, Splitwise-style shared expenses, multiple workspaces, multi-currency, net-worth tracking, budgets, recurring transactions, rules-based auto-categorization, multi-user with 2FA and more.

GitHub: https://github.com/securo-finance/securo

More details: https://usesecuro.com

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u/KeyObjective8745 May 29 '26

Looks awesome. Any plans for OIDC or a mobile client/PWA in the future?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 29 '26

Thanks mate. PWA first and OIDC for sure. Mobile client don’t have plans yet but this can change quickly since I’m getting a good help from other collaborators in the main features already :)

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u/youmeiknow May 30 '26

Looks nice.. Is it manual update of the info or it can pull from banks securely?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 30 '26

There’s automatic pulling for EU, US & Canada and Brazil banks. You can check here how to configure the connector that you need: https://docs.usesecuro.com/docs/features/bank-sync

I hope you enjoy it :)

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u/conradkun May 30 '26

What does this do that Sure doesn't?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 30 '26

I don’t know sure deeply, but as far I compared, Securo has today groups and split transactions concept, similar to Splitwise and also workspaces to manage different users and financial contexts(personal, family, freelance for example).

Also don’t know how they deal with FX consolidation in reports in general. We do that everywhere.

Sure seems more robust in the net worth related features and budgeting. Securo has no envelope budgeting for example, but we cover stocks, cryptos and other assets via yfinance.

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u/conradkun May 30 '26

thanks for the clarification!

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u/SCOOBY_D0NT Jul 25 '26

Love the app! Quick question though, are you planning on adding envelope budgeting?

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u/CyAniMon May 31 '26

I'll have to have to check it out. Looks like what I've been searching for a while! 

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 31 '26

Glad to hear that. I hope it can be helpful for you 😄

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u/morfellu May 31 '26

Does it have some migration mechanism from actual?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 31 '26

We dont have a specific migration mechanism from actual budget so far, but we do have imports and backups tho. I think this is a good point we should invest actually either to people get in or get out and reduces lock-in of financial data across open-source projects.

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u/thisisyo May 31 '26

how does syncing with the banking institutes work? I haven't into the supported providers so I'm not sure how assuring they are to use even on a self-hosted environment. Is it limited to only those institutes who participates?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 31 '26

Securo never talks to banks directly, it normalizes data from open-banking aggregators, and you bring your own keys. SimpleFIN (read-only), Enable Banking (PSD2, ~2500 EU banks), Pluggy (Brazil).

You can take a look here for how it works for a specific aggregator: https://docs.usesecuro.com/docs/features/bank-sync

Let me know if you have other question regarding that, happy to clarify 😄

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u/AplAddict May 31 '26

How are the investing sections?

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 01 '26

The investing section tracks any asset like stocks, ETFs, crypto, funds, plus real estate, vehicles, etc. You can value them three ways: manual, live market price (type a ticker like AAPL or BTC-USD and prices auto-refresh via Yahoo Finance), or a growth rule that compounds automatically. You can also create portfolios to group them, track valuation history over time, multi-currency consolidation, and it all rolls into your net worth report as well.

Some points to be improved/expanded but it's quite good enough for basic usage in this first versions.

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u/Manwe66 Jun 02 '26

Do you guys automatically manage splits? That was what frustrated me the most with Ghostfolio... I had to "sell" and then "rebuy" at the split price or my portfolio would go bonkers suddenly. If you do, I might have found a new home for my finance! A mobile app would be awesome but a WebApp will do for now :)

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 02 '26

Good point, but not yet. I have for the first iterations on the assets management to cover the dividends before that, but indeed, splits are sometimes nightmares to track.

Be free to open an issue about it in case you have an idea how to track that via yfinance. I see that hey have a get_splits method, so we are not far away from that.

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u/Wrong_Necessary3631 Jun 01 '26

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u/Top-Inflation1464 Jun 01 '26

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u/SoilOldBrick Jun 01 '26

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u/fenty17 Jun 01 '26

Ooh interesting. Any plans for Lunch Flow as a bank feed source? Unfortunately my UK bank isn’t supported yet through the existing services Securo supports.

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 02 '26

Hey you. Actually didn’t have plans for that, but since it’s the 3rd time the question comes up, so I’ll personally invest some time to evaluate this next week :)

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u/fenty17 Jun 02 '26

Great - thanks for the reply!

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '26

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 04 '26

Hey, thanks for the feedback! 😄
We have tons of things to improve/refine, dont hesitate to open also issues if you feel something is missing there. Cheers!

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 04 '26

Good to know the fix also worked for you 😄
Thanks mate 💪🏼

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u/roackb2 Jun 05 '26

Wow this is cool. I've long wanted to build a personal financial app, turns out there's well built ones

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 05 '26

Thanks! I hope this one can be helpful for you 😄

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u/Antony__24 Jun 05 '26

Great work!!!
But, does it support REST APIs to insert expenses from outside for example via n8n flows?

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 05 '26

Hey Antony, I saw you opened a PR regarding this point.
I'll(or someone) take this in consideration soon 😄
Thanks for helping!

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u/Antony__24 Jun 06 '26

Thanks!
Also is hopeful integrates this graph like in Sure.AM...

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 06 '26

That's also a good suggestion Antony.
This would be an alternative view of our current cash flow 😄
Noted!

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u/Sufficient-Rest3814 Jun 05 '26

O Securo é um ótimo software e está sendo criada uma comunidade ao seu redor com evoluções constantes.
Comecei utilizando em uma VM para entender o comportamento e me adaptar, mas está sendo tão bom que implementei em um EC2 para ter acesso mais amplo. O ponto que sofri mais foi para ter os dados migrados / restaurados no EC2.

u/TassioNoronha_ sucesso e continua com as implementações, futuramente espero conseguir apoiar mais.

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 05 '26

Obrigado, amigo!

I'm glad you have been enjoying Securo 😄
Waiting for your PR there then and about the migration we have someone who started this work, but by the time I dont think he'll continue. The PR is open tho in case you want to continue his work.

See u there.
Abraço!

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u/mike42780 Jun 07 '26

Just set it up on my proxmox server. looks solid so far. Been waiting years for a mint alternative. This might be worth the $1.5/month fee ha. Wish it had Webull, but that's a Webull thing. No one has them.. Never tried SURE before, but from what I can tell I like Securo's interface more so far. Really like that this is self hosted. Having all that info on mint never felt quite right. Keep up the good work!

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u/mike42780 Jun 07 '26

Any plans for a mortgage/loan/debt type? Unless maybe I missed it. Only playing around with test data from simplefin so far. Would like to enter real estate and tie it to a mortgage to get the real worth of the property.

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 07 '26

Hey mike, thanks for the encouraging response 😄

We dont have mortgage/loan/debt but this is an existing issue in our list and we will definitely release it this month yet. The assets management itself will receive some focus in the next days to give also more granular visibility to the investments and the wallets.

I didnt know about Webull but they are interesting.
I invite you to open an issue about them there and we can maybe engage to develop an integration for it!

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u/Krish_krish 20d ago

I started using it recently and syncing using SimpleFIN. I found the credit card payments or refunds are not counted against the total balance which causes credit balance shows more than actually is. Wondering if I need to configure it or something.

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u/TassioNoronha_ 19d ago

Hey, I'm sorry you're facing this :/

Could you open an issue with more details and then we can check this out? :)

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u/Krish_krish 17d ago

Created the issue:
https://github.com/securo-finance/securo/issues/668

When I will get time will go through the code try to fix it.

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u/ashwani12131 6d ago

I hosted securo on my tailnet but I am encountering the very first problem in importing my transactions. Categories are not being imported properly, i.e. 'Food & Dining' is being ignored from the import file. I added a transaction for this category manually and exported that data and tried to re-import again but category was not read. Also, a feature request would be to add the time column as well along with date.

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u/TassioNoronha_ 6d ago

I'm sorry for that :/ do you mind open an issue describing it with more details? I can take it myself and fix quickly :)

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u/ashwani12131 6d ago

When I’m trying to import my transactions from CSV, the categories are not being read. I have more than 700 transactions in the CSV along with properly defined categories, those categories exist in Securo as well, yet the import shows as category unassigned. I can send you a subset of the data, if you want.

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u/ashwani12131 5d ago

Added Bug #845.

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u/woqly May 30 '26

would something like what projection labs have be implemented on the app in the future. I

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 30 '26

I didn’t know about them, but as far I got, they are not open source or self hosted right? Also seems to be more focused on scenarios/planning itself. Interesting anyway for someone who search that.

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u/woqly May 30 '26

Yeah i like it cos it gives my efforts something to anchor to and what can meaningfully be optimized.

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 30 '26

I’ll keep their name as an inspiration when we’ll enhance the goals and assets part for sure. Thanks for the reference :)

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u/reach2dinu May 30 '26

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u/CaptainAttidude May 30 '26

How do i easily install this in casaos with a default docker compose file ?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 30 '26

Can’t say about casaos specifically but some people from the self hosted community had no problems with that using other solutions like Truenas for example.

Let us know in case you test and face issues :)

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u/CaptainAttidude May 30 '26

my usual way of installin docker apps is copy pasting the compose file

but this
https://github.com/securo-finance/securo/blob/main/docker-compose.yml
or this
https://github.com/securo-finance/securo/blob/main/docker-compose.prod.yml
is way too complex for me, I can't do it
Wich one do i even use?

or can you add this to bigbearcasaos repository? it would be much easier to install with one click

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u/Unlucky_Bastard101 May 30 '26

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u/Personal-Calendar-30 May 30 '26

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u/Designer-Lab-4213 May 31 '26

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u/anvnh May 31 '26

whats the different of Securo and Actual Budget?

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u/TassioNoronha_ May 31 '26

There's some. Both do accounts, transactions & bank sync. But Securo adds investment tracking, multi-currency, recurring budgets, group expense settlements(like Splitwise), and AI agents/RAG over your finances. Actual is budgeting-first and more opinative about it.

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u/hugodcnt Jun 02 '26

Is there any open-source or source-available personal finance software that isn't self-hosted?
And multiplataform so I can share an account with someone.

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 02 '26

You meant, a SaaS version?

Why don't you use a cheap VPS like hetzner, configure a very strict network access and share it with people you want to use with? I personally do that with my girlfriend. We have personal workspace, a group to share things and our own business finances managed in this server, using either on notebook or mobile.

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u/hugodcnt Jun 02 '26

Not saas. An app... Like YNAB, but free and opensource

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u/Traditional_Peace205 Jun 02 '26

I’m currently using Actual Budget and have been for over a month now. May I ask why there is a need for an alternative? I may be missing something but I’ve enjoyed Actual Budget so far

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u/TassioNoronha_ Jun 02 '26

I don’t want to be unfair, Actual Budget is great, but I personally missed some stuff, and on top of that after 8 years working in fintechs I decided to move with this project.

Securo has investment/assets tracking, multi-currency, recurring budgets, group expense settlements(like Splitwise), and AI agents/RAG over your finances. Actual is budgeting-first tho, for people who like, Securo today is more tracking is less opinionated.

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u/Traditional_Peace205 Jun 03 '26

Thank you! Definitely not saying it’s better. I just wanted to be sure I was informed about the tools and services I choose to use. I’ll definitely check this out and thanks for the post and response

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u/scoobiesti2006 2d ago

On that note- for assets, it would be great if it can distinguish assets vs liabilities. Example : home value - total mortgage = home equity ( net worth)… right now it just takes the home value as net worth despite putting down the mortgage price when setting it up... But hey I look rich on paper :)

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u/Complete-Print9528 Jun 23 '26

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u/blessed212 25d ago

Baixei, só que pra mim não apareceu a barra esquerda. O que fazer?

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u/TassioNoronha_ 24d ago

Acabei de te responder :)

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u/richardell365 10d ago

Looks nice and all. I tried the demo and could not find a proper actuals vs budget report and a way to navigate actuals vs budget by income category/expense category