Actual Budget is a open source privacy-focused budgeting app designed for tracking your finances. I’ve been using it for a while and have picked up a few handy tricks along the way that aren’t covered in the docs.

I also run it with all the experimental settings turned on.

Read the Docs

Don’t read this without reading the official docs first.

Build your categories for cleaning up

Think about how you want to cleanup extra money from variable budgets at the end of the month. Don’t mix budget periods. This allows you to have cleanup rules on monthly budgets and it makes it clearer what kind of progress your making for things that stretch over multiple months.