Bagels is a terminal user interface expense tracker that helps users record and analyse their personal finances.
It’s designed for people who prefer a fast, keyboard-driven workflow and want to keep their finance data under their own control. The application supports everyday expense tracking, transfers, recurring transaction templates, filters, insights, graphs, and budgeting tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Tracks accounts, categories, subcategories, transfers, splits, and financial records.
- Provides templates for recurring transactions.
- Includes keyboard-focused navigation with jump mode and configurable keybindings.
- Offers filtering by label, amount, and category.
- Displays insights, spending plots, graphs, and estimated spending.
- Includes budgeting tools for saving money and limiting unnecessary spending.
- Lets users choose where Bagels stores its database and configuration files.
Website: github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels
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Developer: EnhancedJax
License: GNU General Public License v3.0

Bagels is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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