r/plaintextaccounting

7k members
r/plaintextaccounting is a subreddit with 7k members. The most common kinds of discussions are solution requests and advice requests, and the community frequently discusses hledger, beancount, transactions, ledger, and accounting.
Ledger is a command-line double-entry accounting tool that has inspired dozens of clones and a great ecosystem for tracking and analyzing finances, commodities, time tracking, and more.

Popular Themes in r/plaintextaccounting

#1
Solution Requests
: "Beancount Language Service (LSP Server & Client VSCode Extension)"
21 posts
#2
Advice Requests
: "Beancount user — Visual Studio Code"
11 posts
#3
Self-Promotion
: "Gainstrack - a more accessible plaintextaccounting for personal networth tracking."
7 posts
#4
Ideas
: "Cobbled together VIM account name completion today"
3 posts
#5
News
: "hledger 1.29 released"
3 posts
#6
Pain & Anger
: "Examples on hledger's web page manual are cut off"
2 posts

Popular Topics in r/plaintextaccounting

#1

Hledger

: "Deep bow of gratitude and respect to everyone supporting Hledger"
87 posts
#2

Beancount

: "Beancount user — Visual Studio Code"
61 posts
#3

Transactions

: "Pivoting hledger Transactions in Huey"
39 posts
#4

Ledger

: "Ledger 3.3.0 released"
37 posts
#5

Accounting

: "Balancing the Accounting Equation"
36 posts
#6

Csv

: "I built a tool to convert YNAB Csv exports to Ledger CLI format! (ynab-to-ledger)"
19 posts
#7

Accounts

: "Puffin: A minimal terminal dashboard for your plain text Accounts"
18 posts
#8

Tracking

: "Tracking my strokes with hledger"
14 posts
#9

Importing

: "Interactive tool to match imported transactions against already existing manual entries"
12 posts
#10

Expenses

: "Dashboard for visualizing Expenses over time: SpendDash"
10 posts

Member Growth in r/plaintextaccounting

Yearly
+1k members(17.0%)

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Last updated: June 13, 2026