hledger

hledger is mostly compatible with ledger. It's fairly mature and has been around for a long time. They have a comparison on their site: https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/FAQ#features It also has a nice web interface out of the box: http://hledger.org/hledger-web.html The author of hledger is also behind the plain text accounting site: https://plaintextaccounting.org/ For me, the primary benefit is I could build hledger but not ledger. I don't know if they've fixed it, but building ledger was not easy.

I agree that entering large numbers of manual transaction can be clunky, but for the occasional single transaction it can be pretty quick. For larger numbers of transactions, I've created a rules file that hledger uses to parse the downloaded CSV file from my bank to create a fairly detailed journal entry. (https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/wiki/Convert%20CSV%2...). The real added benefit for me is using git not only for my journal file, but also for the CSV files. It gives me an immutable record of transactions from my bank. I had a revelatory experience reading adept's methods for tracking his financials. Version control for everything. https://github.com/adept/full-fledged-hledger