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piglet		beancount
	Project
2	Mentions	56
83	Stars	3,382
-	Growth	2.0%
7.2	Activity	7.4
10 days ago	Latest Commit	7 days ago
Python	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

piglet

Posts with mentions or reviews of piglet. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.

Piglet: Simple, Open-Source Webapp to manage budgets in a household
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Aug 2023
Recommendations for easy financial management
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Mar 2023

Try piglet. Its maintained by me and I published it a few days ago. I had the same use case as you have. It‘s new and pretty simple. Just look at https://github.com/k3nd0x/piglet

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.

Beancount: Double-Entry Accounting from Text Files
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Feb 2024
Meilleur façon de suivre son patrimoine ?
2 projects | /r/vosfinances | 11 May 2023
Kiadasok/Bevetelek
2 projects | /r/kiszamolo | 9 May 2023
Show HN: Mini-spend-tracker – a self-hosted server for tracking your spendings
2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 May 2023

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.
Haushaltsbuch mit Python
6 projects | /r/Finanzen | 7 Apr 2023
hledger 1.29 released
4 projects | /r/plaintextaccounting | 11 Mar 2023

[1] https://plaintextaccounting.org [2] https://ledger-cli.org [3] https://beancount.github.io
Recommendations for easy financial management
8 projects | /r/selfhosted | 5 Mar 2023

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).
Finanse domowe
2 projects | /r/Polska | 9 Feb 2023

beancount -> https://beancount.github.io/
Trying to get started...
3 projects | /r/plaintextaccounting | 18 Jan 2023

The beancount documentation has some good background material, and the concepts apply to ledger as well.
Customizing Fava (a python application)
1 project | /r/NixOS | 27 Dec 2022

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.

What are some alternatives?

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

Akaunting - Online Accounting Software

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

Fava - Fava - web interface for Beancount

GnuCash - GnuCash Double-Entry Accounting Program.

ohmyform - ✏️ Free open source alternative to TypeForm, TellForm, or Google Forms ⛺

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

OpenBudgeteer - OpenBudgeteer is a budgeting app based on the Bucket Budgeting Principle

Firefly III - Firefly III: a personal finances manager

plaintextaccounting - The plaintextaccounting.org website, a portal to Ledger, hledger, beancount and co. Also the PTA wiki.

ledger-obsidian - Plain text accounting in Obsidian.md

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

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.