hledger

Robust, friendly, fast,
plain text accounting.

hledger is friendly, fast, and dependable accounting software for tracking money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any countable commodity. It uses human-readable plain text data that you control.

You can import CSV from banks, or enter data via web/terminal interfaces or your favorite text editor. hledger provides powerful reports and scales smoothly from simple to sophisticated needs. It works well with version control, scripts, and LLMs. Read more at Why hledger ? and FAQ.

A quick example

; ~/.hledger.journal

2025-12-01 Starting balance
    equity            $-1000     ; <- $1000 moves from the "equity" account
    assets:checking    $1000     ; <- to the "assets:checking" account

2025-12-02 Grocery store
    assets:checking
    expenses:groceries  $64.50

2025-12-03 Client payment
    income:consulting
    assets:checking    $1500

2025-12-04 Rent
    assets:checking
    expenses:rent     $800

From this, hledger generates reports:

$ hledger aregister assets
Transactions in assets and subaccounts:
2025-12-01 Starting balance   equity                  $1000.00      $1000.00
2025-12-02 Grocery store      ex:groceries             $-64.50       $935.50
2025-12-03 Client payment     in:consulting           $1500.00      $2435.50
2025-12-04 Rent               ex:rent                 $-800.00      $1635.50

$ hledger balance
            $1635.50  assets:checking
           $-1000.00  equity
              $64.50  expenses:groceries
             $800.00  expenses:rent
           $-1500.00  income:consulting
--------------------
                   0

$ hledger is --pretty --tree --daily --row-total --average --begin 2025/12/2
Daily Income Statement 2025-12-02..2025-12-04

┌───────────────────╥────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬──────────┬─────────┐
│                   ║ 2025-12-02 │ 2025-12-03 │ 2025-12-04 │    Total │ Average │
╞═══════════════════╬════════════╪════════════╪════════════╪══════════╪═════════╡
│ Revenues          ║            │            │            │          │         │
├───────────────────╫────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ income:consulting ║          0 │   $1500.00 │          0 │ $1500.00 │ $500.00 │
├───────────────────╫────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│                   ║          0 │   $1500.00 │          0 │ $1500.00 │ $500.00 │
╞═══════════════════╬════════════╪════════════╪════════════╪══════════╪═════════╡
│ Expenses          ║            │            │            │          │         │
├───────────────────╫────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│ expenses          ║     $64.50 │          0 │    $800.00 │  $864.50 │ $288.17 │
│   groceries       ║     $64.50 │          0 │          0 │   $64.50 │  $21.50 │
│   rent            ║          0 │          0 │    $800.00 │  $800.00 │ $266.67 │
├───────────────────╫────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼──────────┼─────────┤
│                   ║     $64.50 │          0 │    $800.00 │  $864.50 │ $288.17 │
╞═══════════════════╬════════════╪════════════╪════════════╪══════════╪═════════╡
│ Net:              ║    $-64.50 │   $1500.00 │   $-800.00 │  $635.50 │ $211.83 │
└───────────────────╨────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴──────────┴─────────┘

or runs other actions:

$ hledger add
Adding transactions to journal file /Users/simon/.hledger.journal
...
Date [2025-12-13]:
Description: groc
Using this similar transaction for defaults:
2025-12-02 Grocery store
    assets:checking            $-64.50
    expenses:groceries          $64.50

Account 1 [assets:checking]:
Amount  1 [$-64.50]: _

$ hledger web
...
Serving web UI and json API at IP address 127.0.0.1 (local access), port 5000
with base url http://127.0.0.1:5000
This server will exit after 2m with no browser windows open (or press ctrl-c)
Opening web browser...

$ hledger check --strict
hledger: Error: /Users/simon/.hledger.journal:2:
  | 2025-12-01 Starting balance
2 |     equity                   $-1000
  |                              ^^^^^^
  |     assets:checking           $1000

Strict commodity checking is enabled, and
commodity "$" has not been declared.
Consider adding a commodity directive. Examples:

commodity $1000.00
commodity 1.000,00 $

$ hledger
   __   __       __            
  / /  / /__ ___/ /__ ____ ____
 / _ \/ / -_) _  / _ `/ -_) __/
/_//_/_/\__/\_,_/\_, /\__/_/   
                /___/          
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
hledger 1.51.99-g67b206380-20251207, mac-aarch64
Usage: hledger [COMMAND] [OPTIONS] [ARGS]
Commands:
...

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