Host Ghostfolio without installing anything
Every holding in one view — shares, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, cash — with the return you actually earned and the split by sector, region and currency.
Starting at €8.99/month
Introduction
Ghostfolio installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. Investment portfolio tracking: shares, ETFs, cryptocurrencies and cash gathered into a single view, with performance and allocation. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Confort at €8.99/month incl. VAT — 4 GB of memory. Ghostfolio is not a spreadsheet: it is a Node application backed by PostgreSQL and a Redis cache, which fetches the price history of every holding and recomputes performance across the whole period on each view. The older and more diversified the portfolio, the heavier that calculation — hence four gigabytes rather than the theoretical minimum.
Transactions come in through a CSV file whose format is documented: date, ticker, currency, quantity, price, fee, type of operation. Most brokers can produce a statement you can work from, possibly after a pass through a spreadsheet. And your financial data never leaves your server: no access to your brokerage account is ever requested.
What Ghostfolio can do
Allocation from every angle
By asset class, by sector, by region, by currency and holding by holding. That is usually where you discover that three supposedly different ETFs hold the same five American companies.
CSV import of transactions
Buys, sells, dividends, fees and interest import in one go from a file in a documented format. It is the normal way to arrive with ten years of history rather than retyping everything.
The "X-ray" analysis
A set of rules flags what deserves a look: a holding that has grown too large, exposure concentrated in a single currency, fees eating into the return, a missing emergency fund.
A return that accounts for contributions
Performance is computed with the effect of deposits and withdrawals neutralised, dividends and fees included. It is the only way to tell whether you invested well or merely paid in a lot.
What people actually use it for
Bringing three brokers into one view
A saver has an account with their bank, another with an online broker and a little cryptocurrency elsewhere. One page finally shows the total, instead of three statements that refuse to add up.
Checking what you actually hold
An ETF investor wants to know whether their "world" fund and their "technology" fund overlap. The split by sector and region answers that at a glance.
Keeping company cash apart from personal savings
A freelancer runs two separate accounts in the same instance and switches between views without mixing what belongs to the company with what belongs to them.
Following a household's assets
Each person keeps their own accounts, and a consolidated view shows the household's allocation. Nobody has to hand credentials to a third-party service to get that total.
Leaving a wealth aggregator
Those who refuse to give brokerage credentials to a platform would rather import a statement every quarter. The trade-off is deliberate: a little handling in exchange for delegating nothing.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. The make-up of your assets passes through no third-party service.
Frequently asked questions
Nothing. You choose the application, fill in the fields it asks for — often an email address and a name — and it goes online. Access arrives by email with the address and the credentials.
No, and that is a design decision: no application holds your brokerage credentials. Transactions arrive by CSV import or by hand. That means one operation a month or a quarter, which is perfectly bearable if you invest regularly and much less so if you trade every day.
From public sources the application queries: Yahoo Finance for listed securities and CoinGecko for cryptocurrencies. One practical point for a European portfolio: you must use the right symbol, with the exchange suffix — a stock listed in Paris is not written like its American namesake. A holding with no coverage can be filled in by hand.
No. Ghostfolio counts and displays: it computes a return, shows an allocation and flags a concentration. It recommends no investment and replaces no licensed professional. It is a measuring instrument, which is rare enough and useful enough on its own.
Yes, they are part of the service. A self-hosted application left un-updated is a security risk, not a saving.