GnuCash
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VisitGnuCash vs hledger
What both publish
| Fact | GnuCash | hledger |
|---|---|---|
| Accounting | Its double-entry accounting requires each transaction’s debits and credits to balance. | It provides multi-currency double-entry accounting using plain-text files. |
| Double-entry accounting | Every transaction debits one account and credits others by equal amounts so the books balance. | Transactions must balance, and hledger checks syntax, balancing and balance assertions when reading files. |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Licence | GnuCash is open-source software released under the GNU General Public License. | hledger is free software released under GNU GPL version 3 or later. |
GnuCash plans
- GnuCashFree
hledger plans
- Free softwareFree
- hledgerFree
Pick GnuCash if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.
Pick hledger if…
hledger can suit technical and non-technical users who want to manage personal, business, or institutional accounting with locally stored plain-text records. Its command-line, terminal, and web interfaces offer different ways to work with those records.