pinto VS beancount

Pinto is kind of interesting. It's a little more oriented toward predefining templates for your common transactions and then walking you through easily filling out those templates. I played with it for a bit, but I ended up not using it long-term. Mostly that was because it's fairly opinionated about what files it uses, and I couldn't easily fit that into my organization method.

Have you had a look into plain text accounting like e.g. https://beancount.github.io/ ?

Also written in Python, loads of tooling around it. Might be even good to “just” as the database.

[1] https://plaintextaccounting.org [2] https://ledger-cli.org [3] https://beancount.github.io

I used Beancount + Fava for a web UI for years. It stores everything in plaintext files, but the downside is you either have to manually enter everything or probably write a script to import csv/qfx from your bank(s).

beancount -> https://beancount.github.io/

The beancount documentation has some good background material, and the concepts apply to ledger as well.

I track my personal finances using beancount. I have a plugin that I wrote for myself, which in beancount is a python module that is installed in the same python environment as beancount is.