Beancount.io
💰 Double-entry bookkeeping made easy — plain-text accounting for humans and AI agents. Polished iOS & Android app built with React Native + Expo.
Beancount.io is an open-source plain-text accounting project on GitHub under the MIT license (permissive), with 321 stars. It is built with TypeScript and CPython. Its last push was 2 days ago.
- Stars
- 321
- License
- MIT
- Activity
- Active
- Latest release
- mobile-v1.20261002.50
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Mobile apps, a CLI and a hosted service for Beancount plain-text ledgers, with reports and AI agent access.
- Adopt it when
- You use Beancount and want to record transactions from your phone and view reports anywhere.
- Watch out
- The full experience depends on the company's hosted service rather than only your files.
- Ready for
- Usable
- Runs as
- Mobile app, cloud service and command line
- Built with
- TypeScript, React Native, Expo, Python and Beancount
- How established
- Established: started 6 years ago, latest release mobile-v1.20261002.50.
- 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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