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Double-entry ledger engines in 2026

2 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. 10 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. TigerBeetle leads with 17k stars, ahead of Fineract. 5 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (5), Apache-2.0 (4) and GPL-3.0 (1).

Commercial double-entry ledger engines

  1. 1
    Modern Treasury Ledgers Modern Treasury

    Track every transaction in real-time with double-entry accounting. Built for teams that need perfect accuracy and auditability.

    Building block Production-ready A fintech or platform team needs an auditable ledger for customer balances and does not want to build one.

    Commercial
  2. 2
    Fragment Fragment

    Fragment is the financial system for agents. Programmable money that bills, pays, and accounts for itself.

    Building block Usable A product team wants to define its ledger as code and query balances through GraphQL instead of building a ledger.

    Commercial

Open-source double-entry ledger engines

Complete systems you can adopt 1

  1. 1
    Fineract apache

    Apache Fineract

    Complete system Production-ready You run or build a lending, microfinance or savings business and need an open core banking back end.

    ★ 2.6k Apache-2.0 Java Active, pushed today

Building blocks for your own system 9

  1. 1
    TigerBeetle tigerbeetle

    The financial transactions database designed for mission critical safety and performance.

    Building block Usable You are building a payments or ledger system that needs very high throughput and correctness.

    ★ 17k Apache-2.0 Zig Active, pushed 3 days ago
  2. 2
    Django Ledger arrobalytics

    Django Ledger is a double entry accounting system and financial analysis engine built on the Django Web Framework.

    Building block Usable You are building a Django product that needs real accounting inside it.

    ★ 1.4k GPL-3.0 Python Active, pushed 4 days ago
  3. 3
    Blnk blnkfinance

    Blnk is an open-source ledger & financial core for shipping fintech products fast.

    Building block Usable You are building wallets, payments or lending products and need a ledger rather than writing one.

    ★ 577 Apache-2.0 Go Active, pushed today
  4. 4
    Pgledger pgr0ss

    A double entry ledger implementation in PostgreSQL

    Building block Usable Your app runs on Postgres and needs an internal money ledger without adding a separate service.

    ★ 495 MIT Go Active, pushed 12 days ago
  5. 5
    Sequence hoophq

    Immutable, scalable, and easy to use ledger service.

    Building block Experimental You want to study or prototype a tamper-evident ledger service.

    ★ 512 Apache-2.0 Clojure Slowing, pushed 3 months ago
  6. 6
    DoubleEntry envato

    A double-entry accounting system for Ruby applications.

    Building block Production-ready Your Rails app moves money between users or accounts and needs reliable balances.

    ★ 460 MIT Ruby Slowing, pushed 10 months ago
  7. 7
    Medici flash-oss

    Double-entry accounting system for nodejs + mongoose

    Building block Usable Your Node.js app already uses MongoDB and needs an internal ledger for balances or wallets.

    ★ 361 MIT TypeScript Slowing, pushed 3 months ago
  8. 8
    Ledger abivia

    General Ledger and Journal Accounting Package and API for Laravel

    Building block Experimental You need a general ledger inside a Laravel app and can maintain the code yourself.

    ★ 132 MIT PHP Quiet, pushed 3 years ago
  9. 9
    Accounting Nick-Triller

    Double-entry bookkeeping library

    Building block Experimental You want to study a minimal double-entry model in Java; not for production ledgers.

    ★ 100 MIT Java Quiet, pushed 3 years ago

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Open-source licenses

  • Permissive: 9. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
  • Strong copyleft: 1. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.

Languages

Java 2, Go 2, Zig 1, Python 1, Clojure 1, Ruby 1, TypeScript 1 and PHP 1.

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