Paisa — Open-Source Personal Finance Manager. It was shared on Show HN in 2023 and received 662 upvotes on Hacker News. Paisa is an open source personal finance manager. It helps you with tracking investments like mutual funds, stocks etc. It helps with expenses categorization, budgeting and money management in general. The journal and configuration information are stored in plain text files that can be easily version controlled. And many more visualizations to help you make any financial decisions. Plain Text ¶ All your financial data is stored in plain text files. We provide enough guard rails to make data entry easy and error free. It also allows the user to enter the price manually, so you can use it to revalue your assets like house, car, land, etc. Budget and Expenses ¶ Paisa allows you to track your expenses at the granularity of your choice. You can customize the categories and subcategories to suit your needs, even icon is customizable. If you are tight on money, don't worry, paisa got you covered. You can set a budget for each category and make sure you don't overspend. Data Import ¶ You don't have to sit and manually enter all your transactions. Paisa import system is flexible enough to handle most of the formats out there in the wild. Introducing it on Hacker News, the author wrote: "I have been using plaintext accounting for some time and had a duct-taped together reporting system. Paisa is my latest attempt at making it usable for others."