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CLUSTER TERMINAL-MANAGING-TRANSACTIONS · 9 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2014-05-29

Terminal personal finance managers

This cluster consists of terminal-based or keyboard-driven personal finance tools for tracking income, expenses, budgets, and transactions, often using plain-text ledgers or minimalist interfaces. The dated history shows one entry in February 2019, then a small cluster of six entries across January, February, April, and June 2026, indicating a re-emergence in early 2026 rather than a steady progression. Traction leaders are gloomberb-bin, Spendly, and fitui, each with zero stars, suggesting minimal observable user activity across the cluster.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

MAY 2014: 1FEB 2019: 1JAN 2026: 2FEB 2026: 1APR 2026: 2JUN 2026: 1AUG 2026: 1
MAY 2014AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 9 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 1 commercial · 6 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 9 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01gloomberb-bin0★23 daysliveopen sourceTerminal application for viewing and managing financial data and transactions.
  2. 02Spendly0★16 days—hobbyPersonal finance manager that tracks budgets, expenses and income with a terminal-style interface.
  3. 03fitui0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal app for tracking personal finances, recording transactions, and managing money from the command line.
  4. 04tuidger0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal-based personal finance manager for tracking income, expenses, and budgets from the command line.
  5. 05hledger-tui0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal app that provides a keyboard-driven interface for viewing and analyzing personal financial records stored in a plain-text accounting ledger.
  6. 06spent0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceMinimalist Linux desktop app for tracking personal finances and managing budgets.
  7. 07hledger-iadd-bin0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal interface for entering financial transactions into an accounting tool.
  8. 08CoinKeeper: money manager0★2 yrabandonedlivecommercialPersonal finance manager with a visual coin interface for tracking income and expenses, setting budgets, and managing debts.
  9. 09◈ Every Dollar Matter — Obsidian Private Suite0★unknownliveSuite of Obsidian tools that helps users track every dollar and manage personal finances.

Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.