Expensave

Expensave is an open-source personal and family expense tracking application designed to help individuals and households take control of their finances through intuitive expense monitoring and budgeting. Built with modern web technologies including Angular for the frontend and PHP 8 Symfony for the backend, Expensave provides a responsive interface that works seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices as a Progressive Web App. Unlike commercial expense trackers that charge subscription fees and store financial data on third-party servers, Expensave offers complete data ownership through self-hosting. The platform supports multiple users sharing expense calendars, making it ideal for families and roommates who want collaborative financial visibility. With unlimited expense calendars, bank statement import capabilities, and comprehensive spending habit reports, Expensave transforms raw transaction data into actionable financial insights that help users understand where their money goes and make informed budgeting decisions.

Common Use Cases

Individuals use Expensave to track daily spending habits and identify opportunities to reduce expenses, importing bank statements to automatically categorize transactions and visualize spending patterns over time. Families leverage shared expense calendars to maintain household budget transparency, with each member logging expenses that contribute to collective financial planning and goal-setting discussions. Couples utilize it for joint expense management, tracking shared costs like rent, groceries, and utilities alongside individual spending for fair financial partnership. Roommates deploy it to monitor shared household expenses and simplify monthly reconciliation of utility bills and communal purchases. Freelancers and small business owners benefit from separate personal and business expense calendars for simplified tax preparation and deduction tracking.

Key Features

• Multiple user support for families and shared households
• Unlimited expense calendars for different budgets and purposes
• Shared expense calendars with collaborative tracking
• Bank statement import from various financial institutions
• Spending and income habit reports with visual analytics
• Progressive Web App for mobile-responsive experience
• Category-based expense organization
• Historical transaction search and filtering
• Income and expense tracking in single platform
• Privacy-focused self-hosted architecture

Why deploy Expensave on Hostinger VPS

Deploying Expensave on Hostinger VPS provides centralized access for family members to log and review expenses from any location, ensuring real-time financial visibility across the household without dependency on local network availability. The VPS environment offers always-available access to expense data enabling budget checks and transaction logging on the go, automated backup capabilities protecting years of financial history and spending patterns, and sufficient resources for responsive performance even with extensive transaction histories spanning multiple years. You benefit from complete financial data privacy with sensitive expense information never touching third-party commercial services, the ability to grant household members individual access without sharing credentials, and independence from subscription-based expense tracking platforms with recurring fees. This template includes MariaDB for reliable data storage with automatic health checking, ensuring your financial tracking remains accessible and dependable while maintaining the privacy and control that self-hosted solutions provide.