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Budget Board on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Applications

Budget Board, a self hosted personal finance app that tracks monthly spending against category budgets and turns your accounts into an honest picture of your money.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Budget Board is a free, open source, self hosted personal finance application, a privacy first alternative to the discontinued Mint. Set monthly budgets for your spending categories and track real transactions against them, manage financial accounts and assets side by side, record and categorise transactions, follow progress towards savings and debt goals, and watch net worth and spending trends on customisable charts, with all of your financial data staying private on infrastructure you control.

Transactions can be entered by hand, imported in bulk from CSV, or pulled automatically from your bank through sync providers such as SimpleFIN and LunchFlow, and a built in model can learn from your history to categorise new transactions for you. Several people can share one instance, each with their own private budget, and the interface is available in English, German, French and Simplified Chinese.

Why the cloudimg image

cloudimg delivers Budget Board as its full three tier stack, the web client, the API server and PostgreSQL, fully installed and running the moment the instance boots. It is secure by default: new user registration is closed on first boot so no stranger can create an account, and you open it deliberately with one command, create your account, then close it again. A unique database password is generated per instance and stored in a root only file, the database is never exposed on a network port, and no default password or open sign up ships in the image. Every deployment is fully patched at build time, paired with a step by step deploy guide, and backed by 24/7 support.

Common uses

  • Private self hosted monthly budgeting and spending tracking
  • A self hosted alternative to subscription personal finance services with full data ownership
  • Shared household finances with a separate private budget per person

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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