Keep every transaction clear
Search history, add details, organize categories, and attach receipts.
Native finance for Firefly III
Your Firefly III.Always at hand.
Check your budgets, find a transaction, or capture an expense. Your self-hosted finances, in a native app for iPhone and iPad.
- Free to use
- iOS 26 or later
- Your own server
Your server stays the source of truth.
Glowbug connects directly to your own Firefly III instance. There is no Glowbug account and no hosted finance service in between.
About Firefly IIIDaily money management, without the browser.
A native interface for the parts of Firefly III you reach for every day.
Follow the patterns
Explore accounts, categories, budgets, subscriptions, savings goals, and tags.
See the month at a glance
Balances, budgets, and accounts come together in a calm overview.
Make Firefly feel like yours
Give accounts, budgets, categories, and more an icon you recognize at a glance.
Capture it now. Sync when ready.
Glowbug keeps core data available from an on-device cache. New transactions enter a durable queue and upload automatically when your server is reachable again.
- Quick Capture from the app, widget, or App Shortcuts
- Recent transactions ready to reuse
- Optional receipt photos with protected local storage
- Stable retries designed to avoid duplicate transactions
Private by architecture.
Your financial data belongs on your device and your server. Glowbug does not run an account service, advertising SDK, or app analytics platform.
Read the privacy policyKeychain
Access tokens are stored securely on the device.
Face ID
Lock the app and protect instance credentials.
Private views
Hide balances and blur content in the app switcher.
No tracking
The app declares no tracking and no collected data.
Built for people who run their own finances.
Glowbug requires a reachable Firefly III server and a personal access token. The app will remain free, with an optional tip purchase planned for later.
External TestFlight testing is being prepared.
Ask about early accessOpens your email app. No mailing list signup.