GnuCash is accounting software that’s been around for decades, and to some extent feels like it. However I have endeavoured to move my accounting records to use GnuCash. Why?

GnuCash has an open data format, I’m using its XML format for storage. The data is accessible both for reporting out, and for manipulation by scripts. So there’s no lock-in, at a later date I could move to something else.

GnuCash is free software. Most other accounting software is subscription based. I am retired and wish to minimise how much I spend.

Moving to GnuCash means less software of mine own to have to maintain. I will have to maintain some scripts for it (principally to assign categories for transactions) but less than my homebrew efforts.