Beancount-gs vs Paisa
Beancount-gs and Paisa are both plain-text accounting software. Beancount-gs is open source under MIT, with 416 GitHub stars. Paisa is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 3.2k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Beancount-gs when
- A Chinese-speaking household or small group wants shared Beancount bookkeeping in the browser.
- Pick Paisa when
- You keep or want to keep personal books in ledger format and want visual reports on top.
Side by side
A multi-user web service for Beancount books with a React frontend, Go API, GitHub sign-in, an AI bookkeeping assistant and MCP access.
A personal finance app that reads ledger-format plain-text accounts and shows dashboards for spending, budgets, investments, allocation and tax harvesting.
Version 2 is a major rewrite, docs are in Chinese, and it requires a GitHub OAuth app.
Assumes you are comfortable with plain-text accounting, and it is largely one developer's project.
Usable (both)
Self-hosted server
Desktop app and self-hosted server
Go, Gin, TypeScript, React and SQLite
Go, TypeScript, Svelte and SQLite
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
416 GitHub stars
3.2k GitHub stars
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v1.2.3.
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v0.7.8.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.