Budgeting
Plain Text Accounting privacy rating
An approach to bookkeeping that keeps records in plain text files and processes them with command-line tools such as Ledger, hledger and Beancount.
Summary
Plain Text Accounting scores 100 out of 100 (grade A) on the budgeting criteria. It meets 3 of 3 criteria: open source, no trackers or telemetry and no ads or data sales.
Score 100 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
An ecosystem of tools rather than one product. The main tools are open source: Ledger (BSD-3-Clause), hledger (GPL-3.0) and Beancount (GPL-2.0).
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Yes
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
The main tools are offline command-line programs with no telemetry or analytics in the source code.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
The main tools are volunteer projects funded by donations, with no ads.