- Text Editor Tools
- TUI - Terminal User Interface to view, add and manage journal files
- GUI - Web, Desktop and Mobile user interfaces
- Add/Edit Transactions
- Import Transactions
- Report
- Price Fetching
- Guides, Tutorial and Blog Posts
- Videos
- Related Tools
- Community
Since hledger is based on a plain text journal file, a text editor is the main tool to edit transactions. These extensions can be added to the text editors to make life easier as explained here.
- Emacs ledger-mode - Most used and maintained helper mode for hledger and Ledger files, but not 100% compatible with hledger.
- Emacs hledger-mode - An alternative to ledger-mode, written specifically for hledger. Has some different features.
- Emacs flycheck-hledger - Provides realtime indication of problems in your journal. Can be combined with ledger-mode or hledger-mode.
- Vim vim-ledger - Vim plugin compatible with ledger and hledger.
- Vim hledger-vim - Alternative to vim-ledger.
- Vim timedot-vim - timedot-vim is a vim-plugin to enhance working with hledger timedot files.
- VS Code hledger-vscode - Language support for hledger in VS Code
Interactive apps on terminal to navigate the transactions using menus, dialogs and reports without the need to use multiple command-line options.
- hledger-ui - Official terminal interface for hledger.
- puffin - A bubbletea based TUI to manage personal finances using hledger
Beautiful and graphical applications to manage journal files
- hledger-web - Official web interface for hledger.
- MoLe - Android front end to hledger-web
Even complex transactions become simple and convenient to add with these tools.
- hledger add - Official interactive command-line tool to add transactions.
- hledger-iadd - Very convenient tool to add transactions to hledger journal.
- hledger-edit - Edit hledger transactions in your $EDITOR limited to the result of a query.
- hledger-lots - Add transactions involving buying and selling commodities with prices to for automatic lot management.
- obsidian_hledger - Add transactions using Obsidian.
Bring transactions from other sources to hledger's format.
- hledger (Built-in) - Built-in hledger's command to convert csv files.
- hledger-flow - Guided hledger workflow to import transactions.
- ledger-autosync - Import OFX file to hledger.
- invoice2data - Import transactions from pdf invoices.
The ultimate reason to maintain a journal file is to extract information. Use these tools to process and visualize the data.
- hledger-plot - Plot chart of hledger queries.
- hledger-args - replacement for hledger command file using custom directives inside the journal file. Also provides an interactive report with placeholders to generate prompts.
- hledger2psql - Export a hledger journal file to a postgresql database to be used in data visualization software. Included docker-compose file for Apache Superset.
- hledger-lots - View financial indicator including market price, profit and XIRR for one commodity or all commodities in a tabular form.
- hledger-forecast - Use a CSV or Yaml file for easier forecasting with hledger. Adds functionality for future cost rises (e.g. inflation) and the automatic tracking of planned transactions.
- pricehist - Download price history from multiple sources and output to multiple formats, including hledger price directive.
- hledger-stockquotes - Read your journal and and try to download price directives for all non USD declared commodities.
- hledger-lots - Create automatic lots without subaccounts and tags and download prices from declared accounts in the journal with a specific tag
- contrib-resources - Place with resources about hledger in /awesome-hledger/ where any user can contribute with tutorials, articles, tips, etc.
- gizra.com - Great introduction to hledger.
- Barracudo Blog Post - Lengthy discussion of a hledger personal usage.
- functional-finance-hledger - Slides on a hledger workflow based on importing csv files
- hledger github topic - Github topics page for hledger.
- hledgerfans - Blog posts about hledger.
- Inside hledger - Discussion of the source code with a general discussion about hledger.
- Floss Weekly - General discussion about hledger.
- Glenn Ramsey - Introduction to hledger focused on invoice generation and csv import.
These tools are not made for hledger, but they provide import features to maintain journal files.
- Tabula - Extract data from tables in a pdf file to import to hledger.
- csvkit - Convert to csv and do operating like cut, grep, sort, join, stack, etc.
- GNU Make - Set multiple conversions, import and other operations for you ledger files.
- watchexec - Automatically run a hledger command when the journal changes. Available in most linux distributions.
- entr - Alternative to watchexec
Places to ask question about hledger and accounting in general
- contrib-resources - Place with resources about hledger in /awesome-hledger/ where any user can contribute with tutorials, articles, tips, etc.
- Reddit - Plain Text Accounting with hledger and others ledger-like software.
- Matrix Chat - Matrix Chat room using element chat client.
- Libera IRC - Same chat room as the matrix, but using IRC.
Contributions of any kind welcome, just follow the guidelines!
