Budgetwarrior
Terminal-based budgeting and expense tracker
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.
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
Budgetwarrior replaces
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