[howeyc]

Part of Plain Text Accounting family: https://plaintextaccounting.org/

I really prefer having complete control of my financial data this way, and reports can be as custom as you'd like. Better than something like Mint in my opinion.

[nightski]

I hate mint but use a different budgeting system. I'm not sure you can compare an accounting system with a budgeting system - they serve different purposes. I'd love to build a full budgeting system on top of one of these text accounting systems some day.

[howeyc]

Just create a "Budget" account and a report that does "Budget" vs "Expenses"

[BeetleB]

Beancounts budgeting system is fairly poor. It can't handle envelope budgeting, which is the only useful budgeting system I've found so far.

[barrucadu]

For envelope budgeting, I just make subaccounts of my bank accounts for specific purposes.

[navaati]

It's not great, but what I do is create a fake expense far into the future...