The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

Posted Sep 15, 2005 22:53 UTC (Thu) by wolfgang.oertl (subscriber, #7418)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to personal finance managers (Part I)

After looking through a host of financial programs I settled with ledger, a command line tool that reads a file full of transactions (it uses the double entry system) and performs various tasks like showing the current balance. Very quick, my data is readable with any editor, as cross platform as it gets, almost no dependencies, small footprint and free. It's not the right tool for everybody, but maybe have a look: http://www.newartisans.com/ledger.html, or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ledger/