boodget is a self-hosted personal finance app for tracking your capital, managing budget cycles, setting goals, and keeping expenses in check — without handing your data to anyone.
From monthly snapshots to expense cycles and long-term goals — boodget covers the full picture without making you feel like an accountant.
Most people's months don't align with the calendar. boodget lets you define a custom start day (e.g. 25th), so each cycle covers your real pay period — not an arbitrary Jan 1 boundary.
Whether you're saving for a home, an emergency fund, or a dream trip — Goals give you a target amount, a deadline, and automatic progress tracking tied to your real financial activity.
Colour-coded cards at the top of every dossier surface the most important signals — so you never miss an overdue expense or an underfunded emergency reserve.
boodget never asks you to categorize a purchase. Control comes from the frequency and structure of your feedback loop — a monthly capital snapshot, a per-cycle budget check — not from how many individual transactions you've logged.
| Transaction-level tracking | boodget's snapshot + cycle model | |
|---|---|---|
| What you record | Every purchase, categorized | Account balances monthly + budget totals per cycle |
| Maintenance cost | High — every transaction, forever | Low — a snapshot a month, a few updates per cycle |
| Degrades under neglect | Badly — missing entries silently corrupt totals | Gracefully — a skipped update is just less-fresh data |
| Answers "will I make it to month end?" | Yes, derived from category totals | Yes, directly, from the cycle's leftover figure |
boodget runs on your own server. One Docker command and you're up. No subscriptions, no cloud account, no one looking at your spending habits but you.
boodget is free, open source, and runs on your own hardware. No subscriptions. No analytics. Just you and your money.