hledger

Friendly, robust, plain text accounting.

hledger is an accounting program, for tracking money, time, or other commodities. It is cross platform and released under GNU GPLv3. …

With simple yet powerful functionality accessed from command line, terminal or web browser, hledger is a fast, secure, dependable alternative to spreadsheets, Quickbooks, GnuCash, Xero etc.

The hledger project is led by Simon Michael. I’ve been building and using hledger since 2007, because I needed it. Welcome, and I hope you find it helpful in mastering your time and money. And if you feel like helping this project grow, please join us!

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Introduction

What is hledger?

An enhanced, well-documented reimplementation of plain text accounting.
What is hledger ?

What is plain text accounting?

Using plain text data formats and version control for robust, transparent accounting.
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What is accounting?

Tracking your use of valuable commodities, such as money or time, for increased awareness and effectiveness.
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Help/Feedback

IRC: #hledger on Freenode
Twitter: #hledger,
#plaintextaccounting
Reddit: /r/plaintextaccounting
Mail list: list.hledger.org, hledger@googlegroups.com
Issues: bugs.hledger.org (bugs), issues.hledger.org (all)
Other: simon@joyful.com

Reference

Release notes
What’s new in each hledger version.

User manual
The main hledger manuals combined on one page for easy searching. Includes:

hledger
the command-line UI

hledger-ui
a curses-style UI

hledger-web
a web UI

hledger-api
a HTTP JSON server

journal format
hledger’s native file format

csv format
hledger’s CSV import system

timeclock format
a file format for precise time logging

timedot format
a file format for human-friendly approximate time logging

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