actual-budget — Launchfile Catalog

Run locally

Tested and verified to launch successfully.

Terminal

$ npx launchfile up actual-budget

Requires Docker Desktop. No source code needed — pulls pre-built images and starts actual-budget with all dependencies.

Terminal

# Clone the source and run natively
$ git clone https://github.com/actualbudget/actual
$ cd actual-budget
$ npx launchfile up --native

For local development. Requires macOS + Homebrew. Clones the source, installs runtimes and databases via Homebrew, and runs the app natively — no containers.

Image: actualbudget/actual-server:latest

Launchfile View on GitHub

# yaml-language-server: $schema=https://launchfile.dev/schema/v1
version: launch/v1
name: actual-budget
description: "Local-first personal budgeting app inspired by YNAB"
repository: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual
logo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/actualbudget/actual/master/packages/desktop-client/public/favicon.svg

image: actualbudget/actual-server:latest
provides:
  - protocol: http
    port: 5006
    exposed: true
storage:
  data:
    path: /data
    persistent: true
restart: always

Test Results

Last Tested

2026-04-08

Health Check

Passing

Startup Time

Total Disk

343 MB

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storage expressions ($)

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