Beancount: Plain Text Ledger

See your whole financial life, keep the plain-text ledger, and understand every change through Git history and full reports.

Your ledger is a plain-text file. You own it for good.

Beancount brings serious double-entry bookkeeping to your phone without locking your financial history inside a proprietary database. Record a purchase in seconds, inspect the underlying Beancount file, and keep a Git history of every change.

FINANCIAL CLARITY • See net worth, assets, liabilities, income, and expenses • Compare spending across months, quarters, and years • Explore cash flow, profit trends, budgets, merchants, and account reports

YOUR BOOKS, YOUR FORMAT • Keep real Beancount-syntax text files • Browse commits, authors, and line-by-line changes • Edit the ledger source directly and take your files with you

BUILT FOR REAL BOOKS • Full double-entry transactions, splits, transfers, and reimbursements • Multiple ledgers, currencies, investments, crypto, and property • Receipt capture, payee and account suggestions, search, and filters

Beancount is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.