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Hospitable Ledger

Plain-text accounting toolkit and CLI

Budgeting & Finance ★ 6k stars Hard setup BSD-3-Clause

Ledger is the original command-line, double-entry plain-text accounting tool. It reads human-readable journal files and generates balance sheets, registers, and reports with powerful query options.

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Key features

  • Command-line accounting
  • Plain-text journal files
  • Powerful reporting queries
  • No database required

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Extremely portable data
  • Scriptable and version-controllable

Trade-offs

  • CLI only
  • Steep learning curve

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