Paisa

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A personal finance app that reads ledger-format plain-text accounts and shows dashboards for spending, budgets, investments, allocation and tax harvesting.

Adopt it when

You keep or want to keep personal books in ledger format and want visual reports on top.

Watch out

Assumes you are comfortable with plain-text accounting, and it is largely one developer's project.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Desktop app and self-hosted server

Built with

Go, TypeScript, Svelte and SQLite

How established

Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v0.7.8.

What the license allows

Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.

Judged on 2026-11-03 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

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