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Beancount-gs

基于 beancount 提供个人记账财务管理的 RESTful API 服务（包含前端页面）

Beancount-gs is an open-source plain-text accounting project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 416 stars. It is built with Go and TypeScript. Its last push was 2 months ago.

Stars
416
License
MIT
Activity
Active
Latest release
v1.2.3

Code on GitHub Website

Judgement

What it is
Complete system
What it does
A multi-user web service for Beancount books with a React frontend, Go API, GitHub sign-in, an AI bookkeeping assistant and MCP access.
Adopt it when
A Chinese-speaking household or small group wants shared Beancount bookkeeping in the browser.
Watch out
Version 2 is a major rewrite, docs are in Chinese, and it requires a GitHub OAuth app.
Ready for
Usable
Runs as
Self-hosted server
Built with
Go, Gin, TypeScript, React and SQLite
How established
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v1.2.3.
What the license allows
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

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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