Dev tools · September 22, 2023
Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager
I have been using plaintext accounting for some time and had a duct-taped together reporting system. Paisa is my latest attempt at making it usable for others. I am interested in knowing what people normally want to understand about their finances PS: Please avoid editing the demo data. Download and run locally if you want to edit.
Paisa – Open-Source Personal Finance Manager launched on September 22, 2023 with 662 votes, #26 of 4,228 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Paisa is an open-source personal finance manager built on plaintext accounting principles. It's designed for users who want to track and understand their finances through a simple, text-based system. The tool provides reporting capabilities to help people analyze their financial data and comes with demo data for exploration. Users can download and run it locally to edit their own financial information.
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From the sources
Paisa is an open source personal finance manager. It helps you with tracking investments like mutual funds, stocks etc. It helps with expenses categorization, budgeting and money management in general.
Prefer a simpler way to manage double-entry accounting without editing text files? Try FinBodhi All your financial data is stored in plain text files. Of course, we will not ask you to draw a picture on blank canvas. We provide enough guard rails to make data entry easy and error free. The editor comes with syntax highlighting, auto completion, error checking and auto formatting. Selling your data is not the indirect goal of the app. The app will never collect or send any data to any server. All your data is stored in your system. Checkout the manifesto for more. Paisa supports various price data providers, so it can keep track of the latest price of all your assets. It also allows the user…from paisa.fyi
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