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Open source alternatives to Dext[006]
Dext captures receipts, invoices and bank statements, extracts the line-item data and pushes it into accounting software. Below are 6 self-hostable open source alternatives, ranked by GitHub popularity.
Akaunting
Online Accounting Software
★ STARS
9.8k
⑂ FORKS
2.9k
invoice-ninja
A source-available invoice, quote, project and time-tracking app built with Laravel
★ STARS
9.7k
⑂ FORKS
2.6k
frappe-books
Free Accounting Software
★ STARS
4.6k
⑂ FORKS
1.1k
Bigcapital
Independent financial accounting with intelligent reporting, alternative to Quickbooks, Xero, Wave.
★ STARS
3.6k
⑂ FORKS
435
Monetr
Monetr is a budgeting application focused on planning for recurring expenses.
★ STARS
652
⑂ FORKS
46
YAFFA
Yaffa is a personal finance web application, focusing on the support of long term financial planning.
★ STARS
99
⑂ FORKS
11
// EDITOR'S TAKE
None of these reproduce Dext's receipt scanning and OCR, so realistically you replace the destination rather than the capture step, and Akaunting is the closest with expense records, bills, vendor tracking and an app store where document add-ons live. Bigcapital and frappe-books both keep a proper ledger, with frappe-books aimed at a single desktop, but data entry stays manual unless you bolt on separate OCR.
// FREQUENTLY ASKED
What is the best open source Dext alternative?
Akaunting is the most popular open source Dext alternative by GitHub stars (9,792 stars). The other 5 options are ranked above.
Are these Dext alternatives self-hostable?
Yes — every project listed here is open source and runs on your own infrastructure. Click into a project to see its license, stars, language, and current health status.
Are they free?
All projects shown are free and open source. Check each project's license page for the terms — most are MIT, Apache 2.0, or AGPL.