Ghostfolio

What Ghostfolio does

Ghostfolio is an open-source wealth management application built in Switzerland that helps individuals track and analyze investment portfolios across multiple brokers and asset classes. It handles stocks, ETFs, bonds, and cryptocurrencies in a single view, providing performance attribution, risk metrics, and allocation breakdowns that would otherwise require a maintained spreadsheet.

Deployment and tech

The application is built with Angular, NestJS, and TypeScript in an Nx monorepo, and ships in two forms: a managed cloud service at Ghostfol.io for hassle-free hosting, or a self-hosted Docker deployment for full control. Features include multi-account transaction management, import/export (CSV and broker-specific formats), portfolio performance calculations, risk analysis, dark mode, and PWA support for mobile. The project is licensed under AGPLv3 with an active contributor community on GitHub.

Positioning

Against Personal Capital, Sharesight, or Monarch Money, Ghostfolio's differentiators are open-source transparency (you can audit what the app does with your financial data), self-hosting for privacy-sensitive users, and Swiss origin rather than US. It's especially popular with European investors who track a mix of local ETFs, international stocks, and crypto — a combination that most US-centric portfolio trackers handle poorly.