Ledger
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Jan 2, 2026first mention
Oct 28, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“I use ledger so everything is plain text.”
“I used https://ledger-cli.org/ and the accompanying Emacs mode for a long long time.”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“I built Ledger because I felt like a "guest" on every writing platform I used.”
Threads where it came up
- Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models 1 mention
- Ask HN: Are you interested in a TUI-style financial analysis tool? 1 mention
- GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app 1 mention
- Show HN: Ledger – Yes, another blogging platform (but you own the database) 1 mention
- One Number I Trust: Plain-Text Accounting for a Multi-Currency Household 1 mention
Also written as ledger. Data: ledger.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 4
“I use ledger so everything is plain text.”
“Will it do anything more then what Ledger does?”
“I used https://ledger-cli.org/ and the accompanying Emacs mode for a long long time.”
“I used Ledger for a while, then some other tools.”