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Spendlog

Track business expenses, budgets and invoices by talking to your coding agent — stored in a local SQLite file, with no account.

by makz81 ↗Personal Finance & BudgetingCommunity

LABSCO SUMMARY

A ledger where you already are.

The pitch is the absence of a context switch: the expense gets logged in the window you were already working in, in one sentence, instead of in a browser tab you will open later and then not open. The trade is that this is a personal ledger kept in one local SQLite file, and the project says plainly that it is a cost tracker rather than accounting software, so official bookkeeping still happens elsewhere. The tax-advisor export is the bridge between the two.

What it is

An MCP server that turns Claude Code or Claude Desktop into an expense tracker for a one-person business. The README counts 38 tools across transactions, analysis, invoices, budgets, recurring costs, projects, categories, export and settings; its Claude integration guide also lists a sync group — connect, disconnect, connection_status, sync_now and sync_status. Data is kept in a SQLite database in your home directory.

What you get

  • Expenses and income recorded, listed, corrected and removed from ordinary sentences — add_expense, add_income, list_transactions, update_transaction, delete_transaction
  • Summaries, category breakdowns, period-against-period comparison and a tax summary — get_summary, get_category_breakdown, compare_periods, get_tax_summary
  • Invoices created, marked sent, marked paid — which records the income — duplicated or deleted — create_invoice, list_invoices, get_invoice, mark_invoice_sent, mark_invoice_paid, duplicate_invoice
  • Budgets with a status check, and recurring expenses processed on demand — set_budget, get_budget_status, list_budgets, create_recurring, process_recurring
  • Multi-project tracking and editable categories — create_project, list_projects, rename_project, list_categories, add_category
  • CSV exports, including one shaped for handing to a tax advisor — export_transactions, export_invoices, export_for_tax_advisor

Requirements

Node.js 20+. npx spendlog installs and auto-configures Claude Desktop and Claude Code; the manual client entry runs npx -y --package=spendlog spendlog-mcp, and Claude Code takes claude mcp add spendlog -- npx -y --package=spendlog spendlog-mcp. The npm package is spendlog 1.0.5. Data lives in ~/.spendlog/spendlog.db; SPENDLOG_DATA_DIR and DATABASE_PATH move it, SPENDLOG_LANGUAGE switches between English and German, SPENDLOG_PROJECT sets a default project. The README promises no account, no cloud and no telemetry.

Setup effort

One command — npx spendlog

See installation options