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Privacy-focused app for managing your finances. Version 26.8.1 via Homebrew Cask; verified from local package data.
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Package summary
Privacy-focused app for managing your finances
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Project history and usage
Actual Budget is an open-source, local-first personal-finance application centered on envelope budgeting, privacy, and optional self-hosted synchronization.
Project history
Actual began as a privacy-focused envelope-budgeting application and is now maintained by the Actual Budget open-source community in a monorepo containing the application, sync server, and supporting packages.
Adoption history
Actual evolved from a desktop budgeting application into a community-maintained open-source project with desktop, web, server, and programmatic interfaces. Self-hosting packages and containers helped make it a prominent privacy-oriented alternative in the personal-finance package ecosystem.
How it is used
Users create budgets locally, manage accounts, transactions, schedules, and reports, and optionally synchronize through an Actual server. Server operators can configure storage and networking with `config.json` or environment variables; developers can automate workflows through the official API.
Why package nerds care
Actual is notable for combining an installable desktop client with a self-hostable synchronization server and JavaScript API. Its local-first storage and optional end-to-end encrypted synchronization appeal to users who want ownership and portability of financial data.
Timeline
- 2019: Actual emerged as a modern local-first budgeting application.
- 2022: Development continued as an open-source, community-maintained project.
- 2026: The project ships coordinated monthly desktop, web, and server releases.
Related projects
- Actual sync server
- Actual JavaScript API
- YNAB
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- No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
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/data/config.jsonpackages/sync-server/config.json
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page generated2026-09-19
manager version26.8.1
manager updated
local dataok
upstreamnot checked
latest detectednot detected
https://github.com/actualbudget/actual
- infoNo package-manager update timestamp was available.low confidence
- infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/actualbudget/actualnone confidence
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | cask:actual |
|---|---|
| Version | 26.8.1 |
| Package manager | Homebrew Cask |
| Package manager page | https://formulae.brew.sh/cask/actual |
| Homepage | https://actualbudget.org/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/actualbudget/actual |
| Upstream docs | https://actualbudget.org/ |
| Source archive | https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/releases/download/v26.8.1/Actual-mac-arm64.dmg |
| SHA-256 | b605b3ac05b17f49b726da3574a0788db3a3b1a29efa4eac0f4f12b0b7b01402 |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Homebrew post-install | not defined |
| Service | none declared |
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| Source Database | Homebrew cask API |
|---|---|
| Tap | homebrew/cask |
| Full Token | actual |
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| Deprecated | no |
| Disabled | no |
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