VOL. XCIV, NO. 247

★ A CURATED DIRECTORY OF FINANCIAL TOOLS ★

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Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Tool Comparison

Addepar vs Ghostfolio comparison

Compare pricing, supported platforms, categories, and standout capabilities to decide which tool fits your workflow.

Quick takeaways

Addepar adds Wealth Management, Portfolio Accounting / Book of Record, Client & Investor Reporting, Alternatives / Capital Calls & Distributions, Householding & Multi-Entity, Client Portal & Mobile App, Fee Billing & Invoicing, Rebalancing & Trading, Model Portfolios & Sleeves, Tax Lots / Lot Optimization, Data APIs, and Broker Connectors coverage that Ghostfolio skips.

Ghostfolio keeps a free entry point that Addepar lacks.

In depth comparison

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Addepar

addepar.com

Enterprise multi-product wealth & investment management platform used by RIAs, family offices, private banks and institutions to aggregate multi-asset, multi-entity portfolios and deliver portfolio accounting, analytics, trading, reporting and client portal experiences on a single data model. Capabilities such as Addepar Trading, Navigator, Alts Data Management, and premium market/benchmark feeds are licensed as separate modules or data packages, and the open API is available only to firms with an active Addepar subscription. Included vs premium market data feeds (e.g., ICE Pricing vs Private Fund Benchmarks) are explicitly labeled in the Integration Center.[0,7,8,9,10,11]

Platforms

WebMobileAPI

Pricing

Subscription

Quick highlights

  • Multi-product web and data platform for wealth managers, family offices, private banks and institutions, aggregating “every ownable asset” across 50+ markets worldwide into a single source of truth for even the most complex portfolios.
  • Comprehensive, customizable portfolio reporting and dashboards that can combine any asset class or currency, with drag-and-drop templates, firm-branded layouts and client-ready visualizations for different stakeholder audiences.[1,15]
  • Data aggregation from custodians such as Fidelity and Schwab plus leading market data providers, with the option to manually manage holdings so private investments like real estate and private equity can be viewed alongside publicly traded securities.
  • Broad multi-asset security model supporting stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, closed-end funds, currencies, real estate, private funds, hedge funds, options, futures, digital assets and generic custom assets via rich model types.
  • Integrated market-data feeds including ICE end-of-day pricing for global equities, mutual funds, ETFs and related security types, plus FX rates, reference data, benchmarks, constituents and other datasets—some included with Addepar and others licensed as premium feeds.[9,10]

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Ghostfolio

ghostfol.io

Open‑source, privacy‑focused wealth management dashboard that can be self‑hosted for free or used via the managed Ghostfolio Premium cloud. Premium adds a professionally sourced market‑data feed and hosted infrastructure on top of the core portfolio tracking features.

Platforms

WebMobileAPI

Pricing

FreeSubscription

Quick highlights

  • Open-source wealth management software and personal finance dashboard to track net worth across cash, stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies on multiple platforms, with a privacy-focused design.
  • Multi-account portfolio tracking with full transaction CRUD, various charts, static risk analysis and performance over standard timeframes such as Today, WTD, MTD, YTD, 1Y, 5Y and Max.
  • Progressive Web App (PWA) with a mobile-first UI plus an official Android wrapper, so the same Ghostfolio instance can be used on desktop and mobile.
  • Self-hosting support via AGPL-3.0 code and official Docker images for linux/amd64, arm/v7 and arm64, plus community templates for popular home-server platforms.
  • Public REST API secured with bearer tokens, including endpoints for importing activities (fees, dividends, interest, liabilities, buys/sells) and for exposing a read-only public portfolio performance endpoint.

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Where they differ

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Distinct strengths include:

  • Multi-product web and data platform for wealth managers, family offices, private banks and institutions, aggregating “every ownable asset” across 50+ markets worldwide into a single source of truth for even the most complex portfolios.
  • Comprehensive, customizable portfolio reporting and dashboards that can combine any asset class or currency, with drag-and-drop templates, firm-branded layouts and client-ready visualizations for different stakeholder audiences.[1,15]
  • Data aggregation from custodians such as Fidelity and Schwab plus leading market data providers, with the option to manually manage holdings so private investments like real estate and private equity can be viewed alongside publicly traded securities.
  • Broad multi-asset security model supporting stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, closed-end funds, currencies, real estate, private funds, hedge funds, options, futures, digital assets and generic custom assets via rich model types.

Feature-by-feature breakdown

AttributeAddeparGhostfolio
Categories

Which research workflows each platform targets

Shared: Portfolio, Data Visualizations, APIs & SDKs

Unique: Wealth Management, Portfolio Accounting / Book of Record, Client & Investor Reporting, Alternatives / Capital Calls & Distributions, Householding & Multi-Entity, Client Portal & Mobile App, Fee Billing & Invoicing, Rebalancing & Trading, Model Portfolios & Sleeves, Tax Lots / Lot Optimization, Data APIs, Broker Connectors

Shared: Portfolio, Data Visualizations, APIs & SDKs

Asset types

Supported asset classes and universes

Stocks, Bonds, ETFs, Mutual Funds, Closed-End Funds, Funds, Currencies, Private Funds, Real Estate, Options, Futures, Cryptos

Stocks, ETFs, Cryptos, Other

Experience levels

Who each product is built for

Intermediate, Advanced

Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced

Platforms

Where you can access the product

Web, Mobile, API

Web, Mobile, API

Pricing

High-level pricing models

Subscription

Free, Subscription

Key features

Core capabilities called out by each vendor

Unique

  • Multi-product web and data platform for wealth managers, family offices, private banks and institutions, aggregating “every ownable asset” across 50+ markets worldwide into a single source of truth for even the most complex portfolios.
  • Comprehensive, customizable portfolio reporting and dashboards that can combine any asset class or currency, with drag-and-drop templates, firm-branded layouts and client-ready visualizations for different stakeholder audiences.[1,15]
  • Data aggregation from custodians such as Fidelity and Schwab plus leading market data providers, with the option to manually manage holdings so private investments like real estate and private equity can be viewed alongside publicly traded securities.
  • Broad multi-asset security model supporting stocks, bonds, ETFs, mutual funds, closed-end funds, currencies, real estate, private funds, hedge funds, options, futures, digital assets and generic custom assets via rich model types.
  • Integrated market-data feeds including ICE end-of-day pricing for global equities, mutual funds, ETFs and related security types, plus FX rates, reference data, benchmarks, constituents and other datasets—some included with Addepar and others licensed as premium feeds.[9,10]
  • Portfolio trading and rebalancing (Addepar Trading) uses aggregated Addepar data to align portfolios to target models and rebalance across accounts, households or entire books of business, with a drift-monitoring widget now available directly in dashboards for Trading clients.[0,13]

Unique

  • Open-source wealth management software and personal finance dashboard to track net worth across cash, stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies on multiple platforms, with a privacy-focused design.
  • Multi-account portfolio tracking with full transaction CRUD, various charts, static risk analysis and performance over standard timeframes such as Today, WTD, MTD, YTD, 1Y, 5Y and Max.
  • Progressive Web App (PWA) with a mobile-first UI plus an official Android wrapper, so the same Ghostfolio instance can be used on desktop and mobile.
  • Self-hosting support via AGPL-3.0 code and official Docker images for linux/amd64, arm/v7 and arm64, plus community templates for popular home-server platforms.
  • Public REST API secured with bearer tokens, including endpoints for importing activities (fees, dividends, interest, liabilities, buys/sells) and for exposing a read-only public portfolio performance endpoint.
  • Data import and export flows including manual entry, CSV file import and JSON/API-based imports, with ongoing improvements documented in the changelog.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which workflows do Addepar and Ghostfolio both support?

Both platforms cover Portfolio, Data Visualizations, and APIs & SDKs workflows, so you can research those use cases in either tool before digging into the feature differences below.

Which tool offers a free plan?

Ghostfolio offers a free entry point, while Addepar requires a paid subscription. Review the pricing table to see how the paid tiers compare.

How can you access Addepar and Ghostfolio?

Both Addepar and Ghostfolio support web and mobile access, making it easy to keep tabs on research away from the desk.

What unique strengths set the two platforms apart?

Addepar differentiates itself with Multi-product web and data platform for wealth managers, family offices, private banks and institutions, aggregating “every ownable asset” across 50+ markets worldwide into a single source of truth for even the most complex portfolios., Comprehensive, customizable portfolio reporting and dashboards that can combine any asset class or currency, with drag-and-drop templates, firm-branded layouts and client-ready visualizations for different stakeholder audiences.[1,15], and Data aggregation from custodians such as Fidelity and Schwab plus leading market data providers, with the option to manually manage holdings so private investments like real estate and private equity can be viewed alongside publicly traded securities., whereas Ghostfolio stands out for Open-source wealth management software and personal finance dashboard to track net worth across cash, stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies on multiple platforms, with a privacy-focused design., Multi-account portfolio tracking with full transaction CRUD, various charts, static risk analysis and performance over standard timeframes such as Today, WTD, MTD, YTD, 1Y, 5Y and Max., and Progressive Web App (PWA) with a mobile-first UI plus an official Android wrapper, so the same Ghostfolio instance can be used on desktop and mobile..

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