bagels mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage

Befehle und Aliase

• bagels

Projektgeschichte

The EnhancedJax/Bagels GitHub repository was created in November 2024. Its README describes Bagels as a TUI application for tracking and analyzing money flow with accounts, categories, splits, transfers, records, recurring transaction templates, insights, filters, graphs, budgets, and customizable keybindings.

The README explains the motivation as habit-building: the author found it easier to track expenses at the end of the day in a fast local terminal workflow. It also states that Bagels is built with Textual and was heavily inspired by posting.

Adoptionsgeschichte

Bagels moved quickly from a GitHub project to packaged CLI: the README lists uv as the recommended installer, plus Homebrew, pipx, conda-forge, and X-CMD options. The batch metadata also shows Homebrew and Nix packaging.

By June 2026, GitHub metadata showed thousands of stars, unusually high for a young personal-finance TUI. That suggests broader interest in terminal-native productivity apps, even though its formal release history only starts in late 2024.

Wie es verwendet wird

The normal command is bagels to start the TUI. The README also documents bagels --at to choose a storage location and bagels locate database or bagels locate config to find local files.

Bagels is used for local tracking rather than bank-synced accounting. Its roadmap explicitly lists bank sync as backlog, while existing features emphasize manual records, templates, budgets, and insights.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Bagels matters to package nerds because it shows a modern Python app being packaged as a real end-user terminal application, not just a library. uv, pipx, Homebrew, conda-forge, and Nix all serve different installer cultures for the same TUI.

It is also a good example of terminal UI packaging pressures: users expect a single executable, local data, discoverable config paths, and a modern terminal, while maintainers still manage Python versions and application dependencies.

Zeitleiste

• 2024-11: GitHub repository created and early 0.1.x releases published.
• 2025-04: 0.3.8 released during active feature iteration.
• 2025-07: 0.3.12 released.
• 2026: Batch package metadata shows Homebrew and Nix availability.

Related projects

• Bagels is built with Textual and the README says it was heavily inspired by posting.
• It is adjacent to terminal productivity and personal-finance tools, especially local-first expense trackers and budget managers.

Quellen

• https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels
• https://github.com/EnhancedJax/Bagels/releases
• https://pypi.org/project/bagels/
• https://textual.textualize.io/
• source_facts.package-manager