Firefly III vs Honeydue

as AI assistants see them, week of 2026-10-12

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Firefly III and Honeydue are running neck and neck, each named in 6 of 64 answers and each with an overall score in single digits: 7 for Firefly III, 6 for Honeydue. They win different crowds, though. Firefly III shows up when people ask about open-source or self-hosted budgeting, named in all 3 answers to that question, plus privacy-focused picks. Honeydue owns the couples angle, named in all 3 answers about sharing finances as a pair. Head to head, they're tied on 14 questions, with 3 favoring each. Neither gets mentioned for tracking net worth, automatic bank syncing, or "best in 2026" picks.

Head to head

metric	Firefly III	Honeydue
score	6	7
questions won	5	2

By assistant

Firefly III

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	4	5% of answers	#2.0
Claude	9	10% of answers	#3.0
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	6	5% of answers	#3.0

Honeydue

assistant	score	named in, this week	usual spot, this week
ChatGPT	6	10% of answers	#3.5
Claude	7	10% of answers	#5.0
Gemini	not sampled this week
Perplexity	8	10% of answers	#1.5

Where they differ

Only Firefly III gets named for

What's the best open-source or self-hosted budgeting app?
What are the best alternatives to Actual Budget?
What's the best budgeting app for privacy that doesn't sell my data?
What are the best alternatives to YNAB?
What are the best alternatives to Monarch Money?

Only Honeydue gets named for

What's the best budgeting app for couples sharing finances?
What are the best free budgeting apps?

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Scores count how often each assistant names a product, weighted by position. How the score works · Full Budgeting apps leaderboard