hledger and Beancount

Tips for co-using/converting/switching Beancount and hledger.

See also:

• https://plaintextaccounting.org/#feature-matrix
• https://www.reddit.com/r/plaintextaccounting/comments/um1xy0/beancount_and_hledger/
• https://www.libhunt.com/compare-hledger-vs-beancount

Beancount's journal format is similar to hledger's, but different enough that neither can read the other's files.

There are two old converters: beancount2ledger and ledger2beancount. They are not actively maintained, and limited in what they support.

Since hledger 1.32, and especially in hledger 1.40.99+, the best option for exporting from hledger to beancount is hledger's print command, which supports beancount output.