[raspyberr]

Does anyone know if there's a good app I can use for plaintext accounting on my phone? I'd love to be able to use syncthing to sync the ledger on my PC and phone. It'd really help me stop collecting receipts so I can bulk put them in when I get home.

[howeyc]

Any text editor will do.

Or maybe this? https://cone.tangential.info/

[KennyBlanken]

I am not editing a structured text file on my phone while out and about.

Especially due to the error-prone-ness and slowness of using mobile screen keyboards, you need guided/assisted data entry; a number pad only when you need to enter numbers or dates. A "use today's date if blank" field, selectors for accounts and tags, etc.

[raspyberr]

Yeah any text editor would be fine which is what's great about PTA but editing text on a phone isn't great. That app looks like it might be what I'm looking for so I'll have a look at that thanks

[rthomas6]

I do this. I use Cone on Android. It works great but only as an entry method. You can't edit old entries, and it doesn't run anything over the files. It just adds entries and that's it.

I couple it with Syncthing, and Fava running on a different computer served over the local network.

I would like a phone app to run on the beancount file, but the only apps that purport to do this have <1k downloads and no ratings, so I'm not going to trust them with my financial data

[Karrot_Kream]

Personally, I have a Matrix bot written which takes a simple format like "$5 Honey Groceries" and batches them up into inputs for my ledger. That way I can tap in a new transaction on the go but still have it all recorded at home

[smichael]

https://hledger.org/mobile-apps.html gives some ideas.

[bingohbangoh]

FWIW Emacs has a ledger mode that is fantastic. I suspect other editors do as well.