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A small command-line tool for tracking money in a plain-text file. No app, no account, no cloud — just a .ledger file you can open in any editor and read like prose.

The idea

Most finance apps want to be the source of truth, which means your data lives inside them forever. I wanted the opposite: a file I own, that a program merely reads and writes. If the tool disappears tomorrow, the file still makes sense.

2025-11-14  coffee            -4.50   cash
2025-11-14  paycheck       +2,400.00   checking
2025-11-15  groceries        -63.20   card

Run ledger balance and it totals every account. Run ledger report --month and it prints where the money went. That’s most of it.

Status

Work in progress — the parser is solid, the reports are rough. I use it every day, which is the only test that matters.