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Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount.

Welcome! This site collects the PTA community's tools, docs and practices. It is maintained by Simon Michael (hledger project leader, PTA fan) and contributors like you. We invite you to join the chat or help improve the content.

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To do Plain Text Accounting, try one (or more) of the apps below. Generally it's possible to migrate data between them.

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Project Start Last release Code Committers Stars Mail list, size Chat, size Issues, % open
 
Popular
Ledger 2003 2023 C++ 226 4.9k ledger ~900 IRC ~60 1.5k 47%
hledger 2007 2023 haskell 167 2.6k hledger ~200 matrix ~100, IRC ~70 1.3k 31%
Beancount 2008 2023 python 84 3.1k beancount ~700 matrix ~10, matrix (fava) ~190, IRC ~30 0.5k 63%
 
Small userbase
Ledger (Go) 2013 2023 go 11 409
Abandon 2013 2020 scala 11 178 matrix
knut 2020 2022 go 3 49
zhang 2023 2023 rust/ts 1 105
ledg 2021 2021 javascript 1 37
Goledger 2019 2020 go 1 25
blossom 2020 F# 1 25
awk-pta 2022 awk 1 15
Tackler 2017 2022 scala 1 9 matrix
coin 2019 go 1 7
budget-cli 2023 2023 typescript 1 2
mynt 2023 rust 1
 
Inactive
bankroll 2020 2020 rust 1 1
pta 2020 2020 perl 1
acc 2020 rust 1 1
rust_ledger 2019 2021 rust 4 90
beans 2019 2019 haskell 2 24
Transity 2018 2020 purescript 8 571 matrix
Prudent 2018 js, addons 1 @PrudentLedger
.Net Ledger 2017 2021 C# 1 164 matrix
monescript 2017 2018 javascript 1 12
Go Ledger 2016 go 3 37
uledger 2015 python 1 17
pacioli 2013 python 1 31
ledger.pl 2013 perl 1 6
Penny 2012 2014 haskell
UMM 2009 2010 haskell
sm-Ledger 2007 squeak
cl-ledger 2007 lisp 4 66

Editor plugins

Atom

Data import/conversion

  • Ledger and hledger have CSV conversion built in. Also:
  • bean-identify, bean-extract, bean-file - Beancount built-in tools
  • banks2ledger - CSV to *ledger converter
  • beancount-import web app/framework for converting various formats to beancount (python)
  • beancount-ynab Import YNAB4 (legacy desktop-based version) into beancount
  • beancount-ynab5 Import YNAB5 (cloud-based version) transactions into beancount
  • buchhaltung CSV/FinTS/HBCI/OFX to *ledger conversion/deduplication (haskell)
  • Costflow convert one line message to beancount/*ledger format
  • csv2beancount CSV to beancount converter (clojure)
  • CSV2Ledger CSV to *ledger converter (perl)
  • double-entry-generator Rule-based double-entry bookkeeping importer (from Alipay/WeChat/Huobi etc. to Beancount)
  • fints2ledger FinTS/HBCI to csv to *ledger or beancount journals (python)
  • gcash2ledger.py GNUCash XML to *ledger converter (python)
  • gnucash-to-beancount GNUCash sqlite to beancount converter (python)
  • gnucash2ledger.py GNUCash sqlite to *ledger converter (python)
  • grisbi2Ledger Grisbi to *ledger converter
  • hledger-import-dsl alternate, programmable CSV converter for hledger
  • hledger-to-influxdb hledger to InfluxDB converter (haskell)
  • hledger2beancount hledger to beancount converter (haskell)
  • homebank2ledger HomeBank to ledger and beancount converter (perl)
  • icsvledger interactive CSV to *ledger converter (python)
  • into-ledger CSV to *ledger converter
  • invoice2data extract data from PDF invoices (python)
  • jali downloader/importer to *ledger (python)
  • kmymoney2hledger KMyMoney to *ledger converter (clojure)
  • kmymoney2ledgers KMyMoney to *ledger/beancount converter (python)
  • kmymoney2ledgers.awk KMyMoney to *ledger/beancount converter (Awk)
  • ldgclip import bank transactions via the clipboard with one click (bash/awk)
  • Ledger in Go has limport, a CSV to *ledger converter
  • ledger-autosync OFX download, OFX to *ledger conversion, deduplication
  • ledger-guesser neural network for generating entries like past ones, can be used with ledger-autosync (javascript)
  • ledger-myexpenses MyExpenses android app sqlite db to *ledger conversion (python, 2017)
  • ledgermyexpenses sync MyExpenses android app to/from Ledger (bash, 2023)
  • ledger-to-beancount yet another simple ledger to beancount converter (python)
  • ledger-tutorials convert Pete Keen's tutorials to ebook format
  • ledger2beancount.py *ledger to beancount converter
  • ledger2beancount/beancount2ledger the best converter between h/ledger and beancount formats (perl).
  • moneymoney-ledger MoneyMoney export extension for *ledger
  • outofit QuickBooks to *ledger converter
  • piecash GNUCash SQL to *ledger converter (python)
  • plaid2qif Download transactions from plaid as QIF or CSV files
  • plaid2text Plaid API to *ledger/beancount download/conversion
  • qb2ledger QuickBooks General Journal CSV to *ledger converter
  • QIFtoLedger (Bank of America's) QIF to *ledger converter
  • reckon smart interactive/non-interactive CSV to *ledger converter
  • slc generates Ledger accounting entries, works with generic CSV files as well as the Stripe API
  • smart_importer library for building smarter CSV to beancount/Fava converters
  • total_recall CSV to *ledger converter
  • ynab-to-ledger You Need A Budget (YNAB) to *ledger converter. Handles multiple currencies, multiple number formats, reconciliation, memos, transfers, and split transactions
  • ynab_to_ledger You Need A Budget to *ledger converter

Price fetching

  • bean-price Beancount's price fetching tool (python)
  • hledger-stockquotes download market prices for your hledger commodities (haskell)
  • ledger-get-prices download market prices (ruby)
  • LedgerStockUpdate update a Ledger price database (go)
  • market-prices download market prices from several sources (python)
  • market-prices.hs small, easy to adapt script to scrape market data from the internet (Haskell)
  • pricehist fetch and format historical price data, with support for multiple sources and output formats (python)
  • the-solipsist/scripts download prices for your hledger commodities, including indian commodities (bash)

Data generation

  • beancount-extract-price generate prices transactions based on your beancount ledger (python)
  • DepreciateForLedger generate *ledger depreciation transactions (python)
  • hledger-interest generate *ledger interest entries (haskell)
  • ledgerbil schedule recurring txns, interactive reconcile, date sorting
  • LedgerScheduler move entries from one file to another when they come due (python)
  • lotter generate postings for capital gain/loss (go)
  • recurring generate recurring *ledger entries (python)
  • reorder-journal.sh sort hledger entries, preserving directives/comments at top of file (bash)
  • sassetti adds lisp macros to ledger files (common lisp)

Formatting

Reporting

  • budget_report budget reporting with beancount (python)
  • hledger-diff report differing transactions between two journals (haskell)
  • hledger-irr calculate an account's internal rate of return (superseded by roi) (haskell)
  • hledger-sankey Script + HTML files to plot income next to expense money flows from an hledger ledger file (shell + javascript)
  • hledger-tools generating charts from hledger (typescript)
  • hledger-vega makes configurable vega-lite charts from hledger (shell)
  • hreports customise hledger reports with templates and PDF output (python)
  • ledger-plot interactive tool for making GNUplot charts from Ledger (python)
  • ledger-plots R package & script to make charts from Ledger (R)
  • r-ledger an R package for reading and reporting on ledger/hledger/beancount files (R)
  • TaxingLots calculates capital gains for a ledger journal (python)

Time logging

  • org2tc org to timeclock converter
  • on-modify.timetrack.py taskwarrior hook for timeclock output
  • t ledger timeclock shellscript
  • tim time logging/reporting tool using hledger
  • timekeeping-template time logging/reporting examples/how-to using hledger
  • tito time logging bash scripts that avoid double clock-in

UI, console

  • bean-add interactive transaction entry tool (python)
  • hledger add interactive transaction entry tool (builtin command)
  • ladd create and edit a new *ledger transaction by fuzzy-matching past descriptions
  • ldgr command line tool to add/sort/tag ledger files (ruby)
  • ledger xact history-aware transaction generator (builtin command)

UI, curses

  • hledger-iadd TUI for *ledger transaction entry (haskell)
  • hledger-ui TUI for *ledger browsing (haskell, video)
  • ledger-add TUI for *ledger transaction entry (python)
  • puffin TUI for hledger browsing (go)
  • regdel TUI for browsing Ledger files (python)

UI, GUI

  • ledgerble reporting GUI with charts & adjustable reports (Javascript)
  • ledgerhelpers misc. GUI tools + helper library (Python, GTK)
  • Prudent integrated journal editing/importing/reporting GUI for Ledger (Javascript, mac only, closed source)

UI, web

  • fava web UI for beancount browsing (python, demo)
  • hledger-web web UI for *ledger browsing, data entry (haskell, demo, Sandstorm app)
  • Paisa web UI or desktop app for ledger, hledger and beancount (go, javascript, demo)
  • Ledger in Go web UI for browsing ledger transactions, reports, and porfolios
  • Ledger Web ledger HTML reporting system (ruby, postgres)
  • Ledger Web web UI/API for ledger browsing, data entry (python)
  • ledger-analytics web UI for ledger data analytics (javascript)
  • ledger-dashboard web UI for ledger browsing, data entry (python)
  • ledger-pyreport web UI for standard accounting statements and unrealised gains (python)
  • ledgeraccounting web UI for hledger: data entry, basic reports and budgets (javascript)
  • ledgible web UI for ledger browsing, data entry (python)
  • n4s danish-language ERP system (php)
  • node-ledger-web web UI for ledger browsing (javascript)
  • WealthPulse web UI for ledger browsing, price fetching (F#)
  • BeanHub web UI for beancount browsing, data entry with a Git repository (proprietary SaaS; some components open source)

UI, mobile

Library

Utilities

API

  • gledger Go package to interface with Ledger (go)
  • hledger-lib library for parsing and generating reports from *ledger files (haskell)
  • hledger-web the web app includes a JSON API server for *ledger files (haskell)
  • ledgerhelpers extends Ledger's python library (python)
  • node-hledger Node.js API for *ledger files (javascript)
  • BeanHub API proprietary SaaS API for operating on hosted beancount repositories and beanhub-forms
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