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Ledger, hledger, beancount, and other **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)**
are minimalist software tools for efficient double-entry-style accounting.
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This site introduces them and their way of doing things.
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In 2003, John Wiegley invented Ledger: a plain text data format and command-line reporting tool for efficient double-entry-style accounting.
This idea went viral among software developers and technical folk, and we now have
5+ actively-developed **[Ledger-likes](#ledger-likes)** such as hledger and Beancount,
with 40+ add-on tools and an active community.
This site was created in 2016 to introduce our
tools, documentation, workflows and principles.
Accounting data is valuable;
we want to know that it will be accessible for ever - even without software.