Plain text accounting is a way of doing bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files
and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as
Benefits include version control, scriptability, data portability and privacy.
See https://plaintextaccounting.org and https://wiki.plaintextaccounting.org for more details.
If you have a PTA-ish project on Github, consider adding the plaintext-accounting (*) topic in your repo settings.
Some related topics:
(*) The de facto spelling on Github. Try to get repos to switch to the idiomatic #plaintextaccounting if you wish!
Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
Ledger (plain text accounting) data entry app for Android
Hledger Notes: Create and manage hledger entries directly in Obsidian Daily notes
Beancount MCP Server is an experimental implementation that utilizes the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to enable AI assistants to query and analyze Beancount ledger files using Beancount Query Language (BQL) and the beanquery tool.
Have control over their own finances through information and insights on their networth
Local-first AI agent for personal accounting. Your data stays as plain text files on your machine. Works with any LLM — including local ones. Log spending, import statements, ask questions, teach the agent, track changes with git, and more.
My personal expenses tracker
pYMLedger ist eine Projekt-Vorlage fürs PTA, basierent auf hledger. Zusammen mit ein Python-Script ist es möglich hledger-Regeln und -Buchungen, aus einer Konfigurationsdatei (im YAML-Format), zu generieren.
💰 An experimental ledger-like plain text accounting CLI
C++ program to determine if a specified transaction is debit or credit
Edit hledger journals with syntax highlighting, typo detection, and instant error feedback.