Alternatives to Paisa
An open-source personal finance manager built on plain-text ledger files and double-entry accounting. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Paisa
An open-source personal finance manager built on plain-text ledger files and double-entry accounting.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Paisa.
hledger
Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
hledger is a GPL-3.0 plain-text accounting tool with command-line, terminal and web interfaces, offering fewer investment and tax dashboard views than Paisa.
Fava
Web interface for Beancount ledgers with charts, queries and reports.
Fava is an MIT-licensed web interface with charts, queries and reports that works on Beancount ledgers rather than Ledger-style files, and runs on desktop or self-hosted.
Beancount
Plain-text double-entry accounting with a strict, checkable ledger format.
Beancount is a GPL-2.0 plain-text double-entry format with balance assertions checked on every parse, but it has no graphical entry and needs Python tooling.
Ledger
The original plain-text double-entry accounting tool for the command line.
Ledger is the original BSD-licensed plain-text accounting tool, command-line only with a terse query syntax and no import tooling or visual dashboard.
GnuCash
Double-entry accounting for personal and small-business finances.
GnuCash is a free GPL-2.0 double-entry desktop app for Windows, macOS and Linux with invoicing, keeping data in its own files rather than plain text.
Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
Firefly III is a self-hosted AGPL-3.0 finance manager with budgets, rules and reports stored in a database instead of plain-text ledger files.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Portfolio Performance
Calculates how your investments are actually doing across several accounts, using the measures a professional would use.
Ghostfolio
A self-hosted wealth dashboard that tracks stocks, ETFs, crypto and cash across platforms and shows what your portfolio is actually made of.
Wealthfolio
An open-source, local-first app for tracking investments, net worth, spending and retirement plans.
Actual Budget
Envelope budgeting that keeps your data on your own device and syncs between machines without a company in the middle.
ezBookkeeping
A lightweight self-hosted personal bookkeeping web app for recording and reviewing your own finances.
