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Dev tools · November 27, 2024

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Double-entry accounting based personal finance app

Hello HN! I am Aswin Mohan, full-stack mobile + web developer and I built PaperMoney(https://getpaper.money). PaperMoney is a double-entry accounting based personal finance app. It can help you keep track of your expenses, assets, liabilities and your net-worth. It is based on the command-line tools beancount and ledger. I had been using beancount to track my expenses for over two years. The plain-text accounting and reporting with fava was great, but I wanted a mobile based app to keep track on the go. Looked around existing solutions but everything fell short when compared to…

Double-entry accounting based personal finance app launched on November 27, 2024 with 63 votes, #482 of 4,990 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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PaperMoney is a mobile and web app for personal finance tracking based on double-entry accounting principles. It allows users to monitor expenses, assets, liabilities, and net worth using the same accounting methods as command-line tools like Beancount and Ledger. The app is designed for users who want mobile access to double-entry accounting without the limitations of category-based expense trackers, and supports multiple currencies beyond the US dollar.

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Hello HN! I am Aswin Mohan, full-stack mobile + web developer and I built PaperMoney(https://getpaper.money). PaperMoney is a double-entry accounting based personal finance app. It can help you keep track of your expenses, assets, liabilities and your net-worth. It is based on the command-line tools…

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