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[GH-ISSUE #8084] [Feature] Custom Report Period Comparison #117668
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Originally created by @davidbettis on GitHub (Jun 4, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/actualbudget/actual/issues/8084
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Pitch: what problem are you trying to solve?
I'd like to propose a new feature for actual budget: Custom Report Period Comparisons.
Actual does a great job of tracking budgets and expenses.
However, it's not always obvious how some expenses are growing over time. Many expenses have built-in seasonal variability, where they spike in certain times of the year, then revert to the mean. For example, if you have a grocery budget, it might spike during holiday times when you prepare a fancy meal for friends and family. Perhaps you spend more money on visiting the swimming pool during the summer. In these scenarios, you may want to see how your spending is that month, relative to that month in the prior year.
Describe your ideal solution to this problem
What I'd like to do propose is adding a new flag in the Options section of Custom Reports:
[X] Compare to prior period
When that option is selected, we'll pull two queries: for the current time period, and a second for the current time period minus (1 year, 1 month, or 1 week) depending on the period comparison selected above. We'll compute the difference between the current value and the prior period and render that in the graph. We'll render a tooltip that will display e.g. "Current: $500 Prior: $450 Difference: $50 +11%"
The data should plug directly into all the existing time-series graphs, like the table, bar chart, and line graph.
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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Jun 4, 2026):
✨ Thanks for sharing your idea! ✨
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