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Fava Portfolio Returns

fava-portfolio-returns shows portfolio returns in Fava

Fava Portfolio Returns is an open-source plain-text accounting project on GitHub under the GPL-2.0 license (strong copyleft), with 105 stars. It is built with CPython and TypeScript. Its last push was 7 days ago.

Stars
105
License
GPL-2.0
Activity
Active
Latest release
v2.7.0

Code on GitHub

Judgement

What it is
Integration
What it does
A Fava extension that shows investment portfolio returns over time, calculated with beangrow from a Beancount ledger.
Adopt it when
You track investments in Beancount and want returns charts inside Fava.
Watch out
Requires setting up beangrow configuration first, which takes effort.
Ready for
Usable
Runs as
Library
Built with
Python, TypeScript and React
How established
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v2.7.0.
What the license allows
Use inside your business is unrestricted, but anything you distribute that includes it must be released under the same license.

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

Built from

Follow it down: Fava Portfolio Returns → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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