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home: add a feature matrix for the big 3 (moved from hledger.org: hledger and Ledger)

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Simon Michael
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**[[Cookbook]]**\
**[Software](#software):**
[PTA apps](#pta-apps)
, [Feature matrix](#feature-matrix)
, [Editor plugins](#editor-plugins)
, [Data import/conversion](#data-importconversion)
, [Price fetching](#price-fetching)
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### Comparisons
- [PTA apps](#pta-apps) project stats
- [Feature matrix](#feature-matrix)
- [[FAQ#which-pta-app-should-i-choose|FAQ: Which PTA app should I choose ?]]
- [hledger and Ledger](https://hledger.org/ledger.html),
[hledger and Beancount](https://hledger.org/beancount.html),
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### Feature matrix
A rough comparison of the big three PTA apps' features. Improvements welcome.
| | Ledger | hledger | beancount
|--------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
| CLIs: | ledger | hledger | beanquery
| TUIs: | (regdel) | hledger add, hledger-ui, (hledger-iadd), (puffin) | (bean-add)
| WUIs: | (ledgeraccounting), (paisa), (cashier), (ledgible), (ledger, howeyc), (ledger-web, vifon), (ledger-web, peterkeen), (ledger-pyreport), (ledger-analytics), (node-ledger-web) | hledger-web, (ledgeraccounting), (paisa), (cashier) | (fava), (paisa), (BeanHub)
| GUIs: | (Prudent), (ledgerble), (ledgerhelpers: addtrans) | (gledger) |
| MUIs (Android): | (cashier), (NanoLedger) | (cashier), (MoLe), (NanoLedger) | (Beancount Mobile, stargately), (beancount-mobile, xuhcc)
| MUIs (IOS): | | | (Beancount Mobile, stargately)
| CLI help: | general --help | general and command-specific --help, auto-paginated | command-specific --help
| TLDR short help: | ledger | hledger and all commands, also built-in as --tldr |
| User manual formats: | web | web, info, man, built-in info/man/text | web
| Input formats: | journal (ledger), timeclock, csv | journal (hledger), timeclock, csv, timedot, tsv, ssv, *sv | journal (beancount)
| Output formats: | text, csv, xml | text, html, fods, csv, tsv, ssv, sql | text, ?
| Commands: | cleared, convert, entry, emacs, equity, pricemap, select, source | activity, add, aregister, balancesheet, balancesheetequity, cashflow, check, close, codes, demo, descriptions, diff, files, help, import, incomestatement, notes, rewrite, roi, test | beancount: check, doctor, example, format; beanquery: balances, journal, print, select
| Add-on commands: | | bar, check-fancyassertions, edit, git, iadd, interest, lots, pijul, plot.. |
| Config file: | general options | general and command-specific options | ?
| Extensibility: | built-in expression language, embedded python snippets | add-on commands, haskell library | data-modifying plugins, python library
| APIs: | C++, python, (HTTP-JSON) | haskell, HTTP-JSON | python
| Data import support: | built-in (convert command) | built-in (*sv reader, import command) | beangulp framework, (beancount_reds_importers framework), (beancount-import library)
| Data deduplication: | checksum-based (requires unique CSV records) | date-based (requires date-ordered CSV records) | ?
| Lot management: | automated matching syntax, `--lots` report | manual | automated matching syntax, ?
| Pivoting: | on single tag | on one or more tags/other fields | ?
| Price fetching: | (pricehist) | (pricehist) | beanprice
| Querying: | cli options, custom query expressions | cli options, custom query expressions | SQL-like beancount query language
| REPL: | built-in | haskell GHCI | beanquery, python
| Shell completions: | bash (commands, flags, maybe accounts) | bash (commands, flags, flag values, query types, queryable journal data) |
| Validation: | configurable | configurable | always strict
| Active support channels: | | chat, mail list, forum, reddit | mail list
| | | |
| Other: | automatic revaluation transactions (`--revalued`) | account types awareness | ?
| | ? | standard financial reports |
| | | multi-period balance reports |
| | | customisable account display order |
| | | international number notations |
| | | commands summary |
| | | built-in asciinema demos |
| | | regular releases |
| | | documentation-first process |
| | | regression bounties |
| | | |
### Editor plugins
**Atom**