Install Actual Budget - Open Source Finance Management - on Windows 🌱
What is Actual Budget?
Actual is a local-first personal finance tool. It is 100% free and open-source, written in NodeJS, it has a synchronization element so that all your changes can move between devices without any heavy lifting. -https://github.com/actualbudget/actual
Installing Actual Budget
Log into the Windows device
Download the latest Actual Budget release Download
Install Git for Windows, accepting all the defaults
Install NodeJS, accepting all the defaults
Extract the downloaded Actual Budget files
Rename the extracted folder actualbudget
Cut the actualbudget folder to a location it can safely run from, C:\Apps\actualbudget in this example
Right click the Start button > Settings > System > About
Click the Advanced system settings option
Click the Environment Variables...
Edit the System Path variable
Click the New button
Add the Git for Windows \bin directory (ie C:\Program Files\Git\bin)
Click OK to all open dialog windows
Click on the Start menu > type cmd > Right click on Command Prompt > Run as administrator
Run the following commands in the Command Prompt window
# change directory to actualbudget, C:\Apps\actualbudget in this example
cd C:\Apps\actualbudget
# update npm
npm install -g npm
# install yarn
npm install -g yarn
# fix dependencies
yarn install
# run actual
yarn start
Open a web browser and navigate to http://DNSorIP:3001