Beancount

Raised as a usability problem by 5 people on Hacker News over 9 years (2017–2025), in 5 threads.

People raised many different problems with Beancount, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 5 complaints

Any change or update takes ages because the tool is slow2025-03-05
Typing plain-text entries on phone keyboards is error-prone and slow2022-01-30
Official documentation is hard to get into for newcomers2021-12-13
Hard to map bank transactions to expense categories without smart import2019-06-06
Documentation hosted in Google Docs is hard to read, browse, skim and search2017-12-01