Simple Ledger
A private double-entry ledger in one HTML file on your machine: debits, credits, balances, and no accounting subscription.
This is not a screenshot. It's the real tool, running right here: go on, put something in it.
Forged into a knife, this tool ages with use: the blades you reach for wear soft, entries you tend keep their bloom, and the years travel with the file through every reforge.
You mow three lawns, sell a little honey, and keep the books in your head, where they charge no fees but keep no records. Simple Ledger is bookkeeping stripped to its bones: for whom or for what, the amount, income or expense, and the date. Double-entry accounting is wonderful; this is for everyone who just needs the single honest line.
What it keeps
- For whom / whatshort text
- Amountnumber
- Typechoice · Income / Expense
- Datedate
Standing facts
- One HTML file. Opens in any modern browser, on any operating system.
- No account. No login, no sign-up, no e-mail wall.
- No cloud. Nothing leaves your browser: no server, no telemetry, no analytics.
- Yours forever. The file keeps working whether or not Offline.Ltd does.
- Ages with use. Entries you tend keep their bloom; the years travel with the file through every reforge.
In ten years
Whatever you put in (For whom / what, Amount, Type and Date) stays inside the file itself. There is no account to lapse, no plan to be sunset, no migration e-mail with a deadline in it. A decade of simple ledger entries is a decade of your own handwriting, kept in a document you can back up like any other.
If Offline.Ltd closes tomorrow, nothing on your machine notices. That isn't a marketing promise; it's simply what a file is.
Getting your data out
Export to CSV from inside the tool and open it in anything: a spreadsheet, another app, a text editor. Or keep the HTML file: it is plain, readable, and inspectable; you can open it in a text editor and see your own rows sitting there. No export queue, no "we'll e-mail you a link within 48 hours", no format that only one vendor can read.
Copy the file to a USB stick, a NAS, a folder your devices already sync. It runs on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS, online or off, because a browser is the only thing it ever needed.
Questions people ask
How does the Simple Ledger work?
Every entry is one row: who or what it was for, the amount, whether it was income or expense, and the date. That's the entire system, and for a small sideline it's the right amount of system.
Is the Simple Ledger enough for a proper business?
For a registered company with obligations, get real accounting software. For the side gig, the neighbourly arrangement, or the hobby that pays for itself, this is honest and sufficient.
Does the Simple Ledger send my financial data anywhere?
Nowhere. It's one HTML file that runs offline in your browser — no account, no upload, no analytics reading your numbers. The ledger stays on the page and the file stays yours.
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