Ledge is a lightweight terminal-based personal finance tracker built with Rust and Ratatui. It provides a keyboard-driven interface for recording transactions, monitoring spending and managing budgets without leaving the terminal.
The application is designed for straightforward everyday financial management. Users can enter income and expenses, organise transactions using tags and search their records using different criteria.
A dedicated statistics view helps identify where money is being spent. It presents financial totals, larger expenses and breakdowns organised by transaction tags. Monthly budget limits can also be assigned to spending categories.
Ledge stores financial records in a local SQLite database, with application preferences maintained in a YAML configuration file. It supports CSV import and export, making it possible to move transaction data between Ledge and other financial tools.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Add, edit and delete credit and debit transactions.
- Search financial records by amount, date, description or tag.
- Financial statistics showing income, expenditure and spending trends.
- Identify largest expenses and examine spending breakdowns by category.
- Monthly budget goals with configurable spending limits.
- Monitor expenditure against individual category budgets.
- Import and export transactions in CSV format.
- Custom transaction tags for organising financial information.
- Configurable display currency.
- Local SQLite database for storing transaction history.
- Keyboard-driven navigation with Vim-style shortcuts.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/amxnnn/ledge-finance-tracker
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Developer: Amxnnn
License: MIT License
Ledge is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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