Introducing FIREla

Most financial apps have a dirty secret: they own your data. You upload your transactions, categorize your spending, build years of financial history—and then you’re locked in. Can’t export. Can’t inspect. Can’t leave. FIREla is different.

Why We Built This

We believe your financial data is among your most personal information. It reveals:

Where you shop and what you buy
How much you earn and save
Your habits, goals, and anxieties

This data shouldn’t be held hostage by a closed platform you can’t export from, inspect, or fork away from.

The FIREla Approach

Open Source

Full transparency. Audit the code yourself.

Self-Hosted

Your data lives on your servers, not ours.

Beancount

Plain text accounting. Human-readable, version-controllable.

What’s Next

We’re building FIREla in the open. Here’s what’s on our roadmap:

Core ledger management - Beancount file editing and validation
Transaction import - Bank sync and CSV import
Reporting - Net worth tracking, spending analysis
Mobile app - iOS and Android clients

Get Involved

FIREla is open source and community-driven.

This is the first post in a series. Follow along as we build an open future for personal finance.

​Introducing FIREla

​Why We Built This

​The FIREla Approach