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Top 22 plaintext-accounting Open-Source Projects
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Transity
Keep track of your 💵, 🕘, 🐖, 🐄, 🍻 on your command line with the plain text accounting tool of the future! 🚀
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plaintextaccounting
The plaintextaccounting.org website, a portal to Ledger, hledger, beancount and co. Also the PTA wiki.
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SaaSHub
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knut
knut is an efficient plain text accounting tool with support for multiple currencies and valuation.
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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.
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SaaSHub
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I'm surprised that there is no mentions of a great hacker-friendly plain-text accounting software called `ledger` https://ledger-cli.org/ in this thread. It has amazing documentation when it comes to understanding basic principles of double-entry bookkeeping and goes through many typical situations and usecases. There are also several forks, most popular and advanced is `hledger` https://hledger.org/ (h is for Haskell), which provides some neat features out of the box, such as a simple web interface. All of them are very primitive compared to "professional" accounting software, but in return it offers great opportunities for hacking around while ensuring validity of your books.
My attempt at solving the same problem https://paisa.fyi. It builds on top of https://plaintextaccounting.org/ principles and is available as a CLI/Desktop App.
I’ve been using beancount for almost 1.5 years now, and other than having to explicitly open accounts I love it! I use the fava UI to have all the nice modern visuals: https://beancount.github.io/fava/
I've been preaching to use a simpler accounting system for years and even built my own tool for it: https://github.com/ad-si/Transity
But so far with little success. I think I’m the only active user of Transity.
I use ledger: https://ledger-cli.org/
I believe this same plain text format is used by other tools, which you can find info about here: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ (In particular a lot of people seem to use hledger and beancount)
The ledger is written using a text editor. The purpose of the software is to add everything up, calculate the balances and make sure everything balances. I keep all of my 12 years of accounting in one file and haven't noticed any slowdown. But a real business would surely have many more accounts and may want to split files by financial year or something.
I use helper scripts to convert the data from my bank CSV downloads into ledger format. It uses machine learning to associate payees to accounts (e.g. "Tesco" gets filed to the account "Expenses:Groceries"). I haven't maintained the ML part although it works for me most of the time. In case it's useful, the code is here: https://github.com/georgek/accounts/
Have you seen https://github.com/howeyc/ledger
Project mention: Vim-ledger: Vim plugin for Ledger [ and hledger] | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-27
The awesome-hledger page is an attempt to consolidate and collect tools, blog post, guides, videos and everything related and compatible to hledger. The idea is to add only tools that are known to work well is not too much specific for an individual use-case, but can be useful to the community at large..
Project mention: How to forcefully apply a forecast to the current month in Hledger? | /r/plaintextaccounting | 2023-06-03My forecast file follows this format with transactions defined like this.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
plaintext-accounting related posts
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Double-Entry Bookkeeping as a Directed Graph
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Ledger
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Pandoc
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Ask HN: How Do You Budget?
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[hledger] PSA: hledger-1.32 import bugfix pending, please avoid importing multiple files at once
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Trakk: expense trakking app
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Paisa - Personal Finance Manager
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Index
What are some of the best open-source plaintext-accounting projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | ledger | 5,138 |
| 2 | hledger | 2,759 |
| 3 | paisa | 2,113 |
| 4 | Fava | 1,819 |
| 5 | Transity | 604 |
| 6 | plaintextaccounting | 520 |
| 7 | ledger | 436 |
| 8 | vim-ledger | 357 |
| 9 | beancount-mobile | 108 |
| 10 | hledger-iadd | 73 |
| 11 | awesome-hledger | 59 |
| 12 | knut | 55 |
| 13 | ledg | 38 |
| 14 | Beancount DKB | 31 |
| 15 | plaid-sync | 30 |
| 16 | blossom | 25 |
| 17 | document-dl | 20 |
| 18 | dinero-rs | 19 |
| 19 | ynab-to-ledger | 12 |
| 20 | budget-cli | 7 |
| 21 | hledger-forecast | 6 |
| 22 | beancount-extra | 1 |
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