hledger and GnuCash

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

Conversion tools. gnucash-xml, gnucash-sql, gnucash-sqlite indicate which GnuCash storage back ends are supported: XML, general SQL (sqlite/mysql/postgres), or sqlite only:

• WolfgangFahl/pynomina (updated 2025) converts between many formats, including gnucash-xml and beancount
• piecash/scripts/ledger.py (updated 2024) gnucash-sql to ledger
• lodenrogue/gnucash2ledger (2023) gnucash-xml to ledger
• tfree87/gnucash2ledger (2021) gnucash-xml to *ledger
• gnucash-xml-to-ledger-dat (2020) gnucash-xml to ledger
• gnucash-to-beancount (2017) gnucash-sqlite to beancount
• cookthebooks (2017) gnucash-xml to ledger
• pygnucash/gnucash2ledger.py (2014) gnucash-sqlite to ledger

Some related discussion:

• Import gnucash Files #332
• reddit: command line vs GUI (2023) how to export from hledger to gnucash
• HN: GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide (2023) someone using gnucash and hledger together
• reddit: Current working gnucash exporter? (2021)
• reddit: GnuCash and ledger combination (2021)
• HN: Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash (2020) gnucash vs ledger
• Converting GNUCash's XML file to Ledger's DAT format (2020)
• Scripting with APL: Convert GNUCash XML format to Ledger CLI (2016) (apl)