Fava

Judgement

What it is

Complete system

What it does

A web interface for Beancount ledgers with balance sheets, income statements, charts, queries and an editor.

Adopt it when

You keep double-entry books in Beancount and want reports and editing in a browser.

Watch out

Only as useful as your Beancount file, and importing bank data is a separate job.

Ready for

Production-ready

Runs as

Self-hosted server and command line

Built with

Python, TypeScript, Svelte and Beancount

How established

Established: started 11 years ago, no tagged release yet.

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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Built from

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

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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