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Beanbook

Plain-text accounting for Beancount, on your phone, with no account.
New in version 1.0.2
Scanner, accounts and backups, plus fixes.
• The document scanner is reworked: a review screen, a crop screen with a magnifier, better page detection, flat black and white or greyscale pages, A4 or Letter size.
• Accounts can carry details such as the bank, and be closed with a date.
• Scheduled and manual backups can be encrypted.
• Deleted documents are kept for 30 days in a trash you can open.
• Safer saves, backups and remote retries, and many smaller fixes.
Beanbook keeps your books where they already live: in ordinary Beancount text files, on your phone. It runs the real Beancount and Fava on the device, so the figures you see are the ones bean-check and Fava produce on a desktop.

There is no account to create, no sign-in and no server run by this project. Your ledger is a folder of text files you own.

What you can do
• Read your ledger: a Home page with net worth and where the money went, a searchable Journal, and Balances for every account.
• Show figures three ways, as Fava does: Units, At cost, or Market value.
• Add entries and other Beancount directives with a form that shows the exact text before it is written.
• Edit the files themselves, with every save re-read by Beancount before it is called saved, and an Undo for the last change.
• Scan receipts and statements into PDFs and file them under an account.
• Open Fava's Reports inside the app.
• Mirror a project to a folder you choose, and back it up with an optional passphrase.
• Use Beancount plugins and Fava extensions, and run your own Python scripts.
• Home-screen widgets for balances and net worth.

Your data stays yours
• No telemetry, analytics, crash uploads or ads.
• Local mode makes no network requests.
• If you turn on Share on Wi-Fi, other devices can reach your Reports only while it is on, only on a private network, and only after signing in.
• Nothing is sold, and there is nothing to subscribe to.

Two editions
The Expert edition adds plugins and packages that include native code, fetched only when you ask. The Play edition does without them. Both are free.

Beanbook is an independent project. It is built on Beancount and Fava and is not affiliated with or endorsed by them. It comes with no warranty, as its GPL-2.0 licence states: keep backups of your ledger.

Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 1.0.2 (32) suggested Added on Oct 29, 2026

    x86_64

    This version requires Android 10 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • take pictures and videos
      This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
    • run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • io.github.pintofi.beanbook.expert.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 117 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 1.0.2 (31) - Added on Oct 29, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 10 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • take pictures and videos
      This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
    • run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • io.github.pintofi.beanbook.expert.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 84 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • New in version 1.0.1
    Fixes found in a full review of the code.
    • The entry form accepts what Beancount accepts, including its per-currency tolerance.
    • Saves interrupted by the screen closing are finished or put back, never left undecided.
    • Backups, restores and Undo are safer, and CRLF ledgers keep their line endings.
    • Remote server addresses with capitals or a path prefix work.
    • Smaller downloads: one APK per processor type.
  • Version 1.0.1 (22) - Added on Oct 22, 2026

    x86_64

    This version requires Android 10 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • take pictures and videos
      This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
    • run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • io.github.pintofi.beanbook.expert.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 105 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log

  • Version 1.0.1 (21) - Added on Oct 22, 2026

    arm64-v8a

    This version requires Android 10 or newer.

    It is built and signed by the original developer, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • take pictures and videos
      This app can take pictures and record videos using the camera while the app is in use.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "dataSync"
    • run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services with the type "specialUse"
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • show notifications
      Allows the app to show notifications
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.
    • io.github.pintofi.beanbook.expert.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

    Download APK 74 MiB PGP Signature | Build Log