hledger is friendly, fast, and dependable accounting software for tracking money, investments, cryptocurrencies, time, or any countable commodity. It uses human-readable plain text data …

This manual is for hledger's command line interface, version 1.51.1. It also describes the common options, file formats and concepts used by all hledger programs. It might accidentally teach …

Building hledger requires the GHC compiler and either the stack or cabal build tool which you can install with your package manager (brew, apt, winget..), with ghcup, or with stack (simplest).

You can also view the manuals locally with commands like hledger help, hledger CMD --help, hledger-ui --man, hledger-web --info, man hledger-ui, info hledger-web:

For differences, see the detailed PTA Feature Matrix. The Why hledger ? page introduces hledger's features for new users. Performance differences Ledger was traditionally faster than …

hledger is an attempt to recreate Ledger in a more expressive programming language and take it to a higher level of usability and practicality. hledger provides high Ledger compatibility and it's …

hledger reads financial transactions from a "journal file" (so named because it represents a General Journal). By default, it looks for the journal file in your home directory, with filename …

That's mostly it! Although there are basically just two screens, with hledger's full query language available (and with the general flags available on the command line), you can do a surprising …

$ hledger bar type:c not:tag:clopen cur:\\\\$ -W # weekly cashflow, $ only $ hledger bar type:al not:tag:clopen cur:\\\\$ # monthly net worth change ($) $ hledger bar type:rx --invert cur:\\\\$ # …

Knowing some double entry accounting will help you get the most from hledger, but you can do fine just by following the examples below. You'll find your bookkeeping/accounting skills …