Fruit Credits: a personal accounting app based on hledger
I recently published the first pre-release version of Fruit Credits on Flathub. (I then immediately published two more because the reviewer discovered a bug).
After quitting my job and realizing it would be a while before I found a new one[1], I realized I might need to be a bit more responsible with money. Naturally, I downloaded hledger.
I’d tried to use hledger before but couldn’t make a habit of it. I was concerned that my new attempt could be a procrastination mechanism, but to my surprise, it was actually massively helpful. Even after one month, I felt more in control of my life than ever before, and it’s kept me in the black since.
It was hard for me at first to see the value of keeping your own books when banks already record and present a history of transactions. Right now, the benefits I experience are:
Everything is in one place. Most people keep multiple accounts at multiple banks. Banks are somehow all shit at application engineering, or even just providing usable data export. Before picking up hledger, I straight-up had no idea how much money I had.
