Re:Show HN: HLedger Cal – your money habits over time
by igbanam on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:36AM
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I've been keeping books in HLedger for some 3 years now. My journals have multiple currencies in them. While `hledger-ui` allows me browse accounts, I needed something which would help me compare my financial status across time periods. Shifting the focus from accounts to time, gave birth to hledger-cal
hledger-cal puts the period on a calendar — one cell per day, month or quarter — valued in your base currency at period end.
I constrained hledger-cal to work with HLedger's native libraries. So as long as your journal works with HLedger, you now have a free calendar view. It's an add-on, do once you have `hledger-cal` in your path, you can call it using `hledger cal` with the query options you know and love from hledger.
It's on Homebrew and Scoop, for Linux, Mac and Windows. You can also just download the binary for your computer from Github Releases
hledger-cal puts the period on a calendar — one cell per day, month or quarter — valued in your base currency at period end.
I constrained hledger-cal to work with HLedger's native libraries. So as long as your journal works with HLedger, you now have a free calendar view. It's an add-on, do once you have `hledger-cal` in your path, you can call it using `hledger cal` with the query options you know and love from hledger.
It's on Homebrew and Scoop, for Linux, Mac and Windows. You can also just download the binary for your computer from Github Releases