beancount VS GnuCash

Compare beancount vs GnuCash and see what are their differences.

beancount

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files. (by beancount)

GnuCash

GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program. (by Gnucash)
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beancount GnuCash
56 115
3,363 2,990
2.9% 2.5%
7.3 9.8
16 days ago 2 days ago
Python C
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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beancount

Posts with mentions or reviews of beancount. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-11.

GnuCash

Posts with mentions or reviews of GnuCash. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing beancount and GnuCash you can also consider the following projects:

hledger - Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

ledger - Double-entry accounting system with a command-line reporting interface

Firefly III - Firefly III: a personal finances manager

ledger-obsidian - Plain text accounting in Obsidian.md

Akaunting - Online Accounting Software

rotki - A portfolio tracking, analytics, accounting and management application that protects your privacy

LedgerSMB - Double-entry accounting & ERP for the web

plaid-sync - Command-line interface to the Plaid API that synchronizes your bank/credit card transactions with a local SQLite database. Written in Python 3.

hledger-flow - An hledger/ledger-cli workflow focusing on automated statement import and classification