Akaunting
Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, available online or self-hosted.
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About Akaunting
Akaunting covers invoicing, expense tracking, payments and cash flow for small businesses and freelancers. You can use it online or install the on-premise version on your own server, where the Standard plan is free and the source code is available.
Invoices can be sent to clients and all payments, invoices and expenses are kept in one place. Documentation for users and developers is published on the site. It suits freelancers and small firms that want bookkeeping they can host themselves.
Strengths
- Can be self-hosted with source code available
- Invoicing, expenses and cash flow in one place
- Free self-hosted Standard plan
Limitations
- Aimed at business bookkeeping rather than household budgets
- Some features sit outside the free plan
- Self-hosting requires running a web server
Details
- Pricing
- FreemiumThe self-hosted Standard plan is free; other plans and the online service may cost extra.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Akaunting
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Web application, Self-hosted, Hosted service
- Best suited for
- Freelancers and small businesses wanting self-hosted bookkeeping
- Categories
- Office tools, Personal finance
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Manager.io
Accounting software for small businesses and personal bookkeeping, with a free desktop edition and a Cloud Edition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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