# plaintextaccounting/hledger

Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.

Repository: https://github.com/plaintextaccounting/hledger
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/hledger
Homepage: https://hledger.org
Language: Haskell
License: GPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: hledger, haskell, ledger, web-application, console-application, command-line-tool, tui, accounting, plaintext, finance, haskell-applications, plaintextaccounting
Last push: 2026-08-26T15:59:06+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4895, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 9, "gap_med": 15, "n_releases_24m": 20}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4670, forks 412 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:56.635130+00:00)

## What it is
hledger is a free, cross-platform plain text accounting tool for tracking money, investments, cryptocurrencies, and time using human-readable journal files with double-entry bookkeeping. It ships as a CLI plus TUI (hledger-ui) and web (hledger-web) interfaces, with CSV import and rich reporting.

## Use cases
- track personal finances in plain text files
- do double-entry bookkeeping from the command line
- import bank CSV statements and generate reports
- produce balance sheets and income statements
- track time or other countable resources
- manage finances under version control

## When to choose
- you want your financial data in human-readable, version-controllable text files
- you prefer CLI/scriptable tools over GUI accounting apps
- you need reliable double-entry accounting with flexible reporting
- you want a mature, actively maintained tool usable on Linux, Mac, and Windows

## When to avoid
- you want a graphical, point-and-click accounting application
- you need payroll, invoicing, or full small-business ERP features
- you prefer automatic bank syncing over manual/CSV import

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: cli, gui, analytics, data-visualization, developer-tools
- domain: fintech, developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: windows, cross-platform, cli, self-hosted
- tags: plain-text-accounting, double-entry-bookkeeping, ledger, tui, personal-finance, haskell, csv-import, time-tracking, command-line, linux, macos, web-server

## Member repositories
- plaintextaccounting/hledger (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:56.635130+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:19:23.537536+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/plaintextaccounting/hledger (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:56.635130+00:00, sha bbadc04e6130)
  - homepage: https://hledger.org (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:46.715895+00:00, sha de7a989e523b)
  - site_page: https://hledger.org/install.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:46.728680+00:00, sha a8be19253924)
  - site_page: https://hledger.org/faq.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:46.725573+00:00, sha 03218b9bed43)
  - site_page: https://hledger.org/doc.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:46.730991+00:00, sha ad270233676e)
  - site_page: https://hledger.org/dev.html (fetched 2026-08-29T09:03:46.733353+00:00, sha 0505c6ff43ed)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.