In simple English
This tool helps you gather and organise your receipts in one place. You can run it on your own server so your financial documents stay private. It includes apps for your computer and phone to capture and view documents. It costs you time to set up and host yourself, but no monthly subscription fee. You need to manage your own backups so you do not lose your records.
What it is
Receipt Wrangler is an open-source receipt management platform with a server backend, desktop app and mobile app. It gives you a self-hosted way to store, view and organise your purchase records.
What it is good for
Solo builders and small business owners who want to track expenses and store receipts on their own server without paying for a cloud service.
- Includes apps for both desktop and mobile devices.
- Keeps your financial documents on your own server.
- Combines the API, desktop app and mobile app into one repository.
- Requires technical skill to set up and host.
- No licence information is provided in the repository.
- Large number of open issues suggests active bugs or unresolved requests.
Paper receipt shoeboxes and paid cloud expense trackers
A home server or Docker setup for running the backend
- firefly-iii/firefly-iii25k stars
Firefly III is a larger self-hosted personal finance manager that tracks budgets and accounts.
- invoiceninja/invoiceninja10k stars
Invoice Ninja is a self-hosted invoicing and billing platform for freelancers and businesses.
- hledgerorg/hledger4.8k stars
Double-entry accounting over plain text files, with command-line, terminal, web and editor interfaces.
- akaunting/akaunting10k stars
Self-hosted invoicing and expense tracking, with the double-entry accounting sold separately as an add-on.
- ledger/ledger6.1k stars
Double-entry accounting from a plain text file, run from the command line, with no database of any kind.
Check out the individual application directories inside the repository to get started with the server, desktop or mobile app.