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Fava - web interface for Beancount

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2017-02-05 · latest 2025-11-22

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  1. …and I primarily use it to archive all of my statements to share with my accountants via Fava ( https://github.com/beancount/fava ). It’s not pretty, but it’s all in one (local) git repo. Language models are great at turning those…
  2. Fava as a GUI is awesome too https://github.com/beancount/fava/
  3. Fava is a nice GUI that's built on top of beancount, see https://github.com/beancount/fava
  4. …interface fava provides a beautiful interface to it. [1] https://github.com/beancount/beancount [2] https://github.com/beancount/fava
    comment by dragonsh · 2020-07-28 · in The Double-Entry Counting Method (2016)
  5. …with smart_importer: https://github.com/beancount/smart_importer ) and fava ( https://github.com/beancount/fava/ ). Much easier to work on your journals (ledger, trades, prices...) since they are just text files. Really great if you're
    comment by rcMgD2BwE72F · 2020-05-19 · in Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash
  6. I really like Beancount with Fava for analyzing my spendings: https://github.com/beancount/fava/blob/master/README.rst
  7. …or security on the frontend, but you could probably put it behind basic auth+ssl to start with. https://github.com/beancount/fava http://furius.ca/beancount/
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    Fava – web interface for Beancount
    story by snehesht · 2018-07-20 · 0 comments
  9. …Personally I don't like the yaml-like syntax. I use beancount myself, and with fava ( https://github.com/beancount/fava ) as the UI.
  10. …eventually you get rewarded once all the data is in and can leverage web-based frontends like fava https://github.com/beancount/fava to visualize and filter things. Or just write your own script for a custom report. Other notes: - It took…
  11. …as I find it much more hackable (python) and stricter, additionally it's got an amazing webui https://github.com/beancount/fava