Beancount: Plain Text Ledger
Stargately, Inc. Finance iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Beancount: Plain Text Ledger is a free Finance app for iPhone and iPad by Stargately, Inc. Rated 3.5/5 from 8 ratings. Requires iOS 16.4.
- Rating
- 3.5
- 8 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 51 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 16
- 2026 · v1.20260912.48
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About Beancount: Plain Text Ledger
Your ledger is a plain-text file. You own it for good. Beancount brings serious double-entry bookkeeping to your phone without locking your financial history inside a proprietary database. Record a purchase in seconds, inspect the underlying Beancount file, and keep a Git history of every change. FINANCIAL CLARITY • See net worth, assets, liabilities, income, and expenses • Compare spending across months, quarters, and years • Explore cash flow, profit trends, budgets, merchants, and account reports YOUR BOOKS, YOUR FORMAT • Keep real Beancount-syntax text files • Browse commits, authors, and line-by-line changes • Edit the ledger source directly and take your files with you BUILT FOR REAL BOOKS • Full double-entry transactions, splits, transfers, and reimbursements • Multiple ledgers, currencies, investments, crypto, and property • Receipt capture, payee and account suggestions, search, and filters Beancount is free, with no ads and no in-app purchases.
Ratings & reviews
3.5
8 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.20260912.48 · Updated September 16, 2026
The ledger drawer is rebuilt. Your books stay grouped under the account that owns them in a stable order, the current book is marked where it sits, and Browse ledgers, Merchants, and Settings stay within reach at any scroll position. With ten or more books, a search field filters by book or account name. Edit a transaction directly in its Beancount source, with syntax highlighting and a quick-action bar, and land back on the updated transaction after saving. The file browser now opens and edits ordinary text files too, you can create a Starter or Sample ledger from the app, and shared ledger links open in the app instead of the browser. VoiceOver and TalkBack now read charts, budget rows, report categories, the account tree, form fields, and the receipt camera. Larger text sizes no longer clip buttons, search fields, headers, or pickers, and the keyboard no longer covers dialogs or empty-state messages. Fixed: searching merchants with punctuation such as “Lowe’s” or “Mr. Marcel”; crypto and fund quantities rounded to two decimals; running balances losing their minus sign; Net Profit plotted upside down; merchant counts inflated by split transactions; and pickers saving the first option instead of the one shown. Also fixed: switching books left the transaction list empty; read-only books showed editing controls; a reversed custom date range returned a parse error instead of an inline message; account names like 401k and Épargne were rejected; and receipt capture asked for full photo library access.
App privacy
The developer, Stargately, Inc., reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Financial Info: Other Financial Info
- Contact Info: Email Address
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: App Functionality
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