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Spltty
Ruby CLI that keeps shared household expenses in plain Markdown ledgers, letting Claude do the transcription while the CLI does the math.
github.com/thiagodiniz/splttyMaintenance
Repo created 2026-07-06; last push 2026-08-05, the day of the Show HN post; no releases (gh api repos/thiagodiniz/spltty). (checked 2026-10-25)
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Where it stands apart
- Is it actively maintained? maintenance or slowing (0% of 21 others)
- How is the main thing licensed? permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) (5% of 21 others)
- How is it mainly sustained? individual side project, no revenue (19% of 21 others)
- Who is it for? developers (5% of 21 others)
- How do transactions mainly get in? typing or saying them (manual or chat-style entry) (14% of 21 others)
- What is the main way it helps you budget? tracking and reports only, no budget (24% of 21 others)
- Where do you mainly use it? command line (5% of 21 others)
- Is privacy the headline of how it presents itself? barely or not at all (19% of 21 others)
What it shares with most of the community
- Does it have built-in AI features, and where does the AI run? no built-in AI (55% of 20 others)
- Can two or more people (a couple or household) work on the same finances in it? yes (53% of 15 others)
Nearest neighbors
- Banker 59% of 17 shared answers match
- Actual Budget 47% of 17 shared answers match
- Nexmy 47% of 17 shared answers match
Every answer
| Question | Answer | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Is it actively maintained? | stands apart maintenance or slowing No pushes for about 12 weeks after launch. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is the main thing licensed? | stands apart permissive open source (MIT/Apache/BSD) | source 2026-10-26 |
| How is it mainly sustained? | stands apart individual side project, no revenue Personal tool for the maker and his wife. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it run entirely on your own device or infrastructure, without the maker's servers? | yes | source 2026-10-26 |
| Do you need an account to use it? | no account | source 2026-10-26 |
| Who is it for? | stands apart developers Installed via Homebrew/RubyGems; driven from a terminal and Claude Code. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Which shared standard or format does it mainly build on? | none of these (its own format or interface) Own Markdown ledger schema (ledger-cli inspired). | source 2026-10-26 |
| How do transactions mainly get in? | stands apart typing or saying them (manual or chat-style entry) Entries added by CLI or by an AI agent transcribing screenshots and PDFs. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can it sync with your bank automatically, and does that cost more than the app itself? | no automatic bank sync | source 2026-10-26 |
| What is the main way it helps you budget? | stands apart tracking and reports only, no budget Tracks who paid and who owes; no budget. | source 2026-10-26 |
| In the default setup, where is your financial data mainly stored? | on your own device only Plain files in a local folder (optionally git). | source 2026-10-26 |
| Does it have built-in AI features, and where does the AI run? | no built-in AI The CLI does no AI itself; it generates a CLAUDE.md and an /ingest skill for an external agent. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can you point your own AI assistant at your data (MCP server, agent skill, or open API)? | yes Generated CLAUDE.md and Claude skill are central to the workflow. | source 2026-10-26 |
| How do people pay for it? | free, no paid option | source 2026-10-26 |
| Where do you mainly use it? | stands apart command line | source 2026-10-26 |
| Can two or more people (a couple or household) work on the same finances in it? | yes Built for couples splitting shared costs. | source 2026-10-26 |
| Is privacy the headline of how it presents itself? | stands apart barely or not at all | source 2026-10-26 |
Sources
This page was derived from:
- GitHub · github.com/thiagodiniz/spltty · read 2026-10-25
- Web page · tdiniz.dev/thoughts/building-a-personal-finance-tracker-with-claude · collected 2026-10-26
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