GnuCash VS beancount

Compare GnuCash vs beancount and see what are their differences.

GnuCash

GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program. (by Gnucash)

beancount

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files. (by beancount)
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GnuCash beancount
115 56
2,984 3,352
2.3% 2.6%
9.8 7.3
1 day ago 8 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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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.

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

Firefly III - Firefly III: a personal finances manager

Akaunting - Online Accounting Software

ledger-obsidian - Plain text accounting in Obsidian.md

LedgerSMB - Double-entry accounting & ERP for the web

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

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

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.