Alternatives to Akaunting

Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, available online or self-hosted. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.

Replacements

Listings that take over the same core job as Akaunting.

  • Manager.io

    Accounting software for small businesses and personal bookkeeping, with a free desktop edition and a Cloud Edition.

    FreemiumProprietaryWindowsmacOSLinuxWeb

    Manager.io offers a free desktop edition for Windows, macOS and Linux and a separate Cloud Edition, but it is not open source and cannot be self-hosted from source.

  • GnuCash

    Double-entry accounting for personal and small-business finances.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinux

    GnuCash is free GPL-2.0 desktop software for Windows, macOS and Linux with double-entry accounting, invoicing and accounts payable, replacing Akaunting's web interface with a dated desktop one.

  • hledger

    Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    hledger keeps double-entry books in plain text files under GPL-3.0, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces, and expects you to import CSV files and write categorisation rules.

  • Beancount

    Plain-text double-entry accounting with a strict, checkable ledger format.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    Beancount stores a strict double-entry ledger in plain text that is checked on every parse, with no graphical entry and a Python toolchain assumed instead of a web app.

  • Ledger

    The original plain-text double-entry accounting tool for the command line.

    FreeOpen sourceWindowsmacOSLinuxCommand line

    Ledger is a BSD-licensed command-line tool for plain-text double-entry accounting, with no import tooling of its own and no web interface like Akaunting's.

Similar software

Related functionality, not a direct replacement.