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Budgetwarrior

Terminal-based budgeting and expense tracker

Budgeting & Finance ★ 119 stars Medium setup MIT

Budgetwarrior is a command-line personal finance tool for tracking accounts, expenses, and budgets directly from the terminal. It stores data in plain text files and gives quick summaries and reports for people who prefer the CLI.

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Key features

  • Terminal interface
  • Plain-text data storage
  • Budget and expense tracking
  • Quick reports

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the MIT license
  • Written in C++
  • Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM

Trade-offs

  • Command-line only
  • No mobile access

Is Budgetwarrior secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for Budgetwarrior's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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