Business & Finance

Plain Text Accounting

Last updated 2026-08-20 · benchmark measured 2026-08-20 — deterministic & reproducible

Plain text accounting using plain files and command-line tools like Ledger, hledger, or Beancount.

Is Plain Text Accounting production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Plain Text Accounting 61 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Plain Text Accounting (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

• Performance — 80/100
• Accessibility — 75/100
• Security — 30/100
• Privacy — 25/100
• Reliability — 92/100
• Standards — 92/100
• Discoverability — 35/100

What we measured

• Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
• No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
• Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
• Real Lighthouse performance run — 105 ms to first byte.
• Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
• 0 of 0 sampled routes reachable.
• No privacy policy found.
• Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.

Who built it

Simon Michael (@simonkwmichael) · product account @LedgerTips

Who it's for

Accountants · Personal finance enthusiasts · Developers · Command-line users · Open source advocates

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