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Frequently asked questions
How does hledger relate to ledger ?
hledger was inspired by and is partly a clone of John Wiegley's ledger (also called "c++ ledger" here.)
I was a happy ledger user and contributor for some time; I still use it occasionally. I wrote hledger because I wanted to develop financial tools in the Haskell programming language and ecosystem, whose advantages I believe are compelling. I have also tried to make hledger a little more simple, usable, installable, documented, appealing to collaborators, and to provide alternate user interfaces to make it more widely useful.
ledger has more advanced power-user features on the command-line (periodic and modifier transactions, budgets, capital gains tracking, value expressions, custom output formats, etc.) and it remains faster and more memory efficient (for now!)...
hledger builds faster and has an up-to-date manual and an optional web interface (which often works on ledger files too)...
The two projects collaborate freely. We share the #ledger IRC channel but have separate mail lists (hledger list, ledger-cli list). I try to give back by providing infrastructure (ledger-cli.org) and IRC support. hledger stays compatible with ledger wherever possible, so that you can often use both tools on the same data file. Here is more about compatibility.
Summary: hledger is a friendly, co-evolving, compatible rewrite of ledger in Haskell, lacking some of ledger's power features and raw performance, and focussing on robustness, usability, ease of development, and experimental add-ons such as the web interface.