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Akaunting
Free softwareOpen sourceLocal
Manage invoices, bank reconciliations and accounting reports for a small business.
What you can use it for
Manage invoices, bank reconciliations and accounting reports for a small business.
- Covers the core use case of QuickBooks and Xero without a subscription: invoicing, expense tracking, dashboards and reconciliation.
- 10.2k GitHub stars, last commit 2026-10-08. A multi-year self-hoster reports multi-user collaboration working "without a hitch", clickable dashboards, automated due/overdue invoice mails, Excel exports and reconciliations — "Akaunting is a great product".
Workflow coverage and comparison notes
Send invoices, track expenses and keep the books from a self-hosted instance instead of a QuickBooks or Xero subscription. Bank feeds, tax filing, paid plugin features and their hosted service are outside this slice.
Before you switch
You run the server, upgrades and backups. The free core mirrors the SaaS UI, so some buttons lead to paid plugins or the hosted service, and one long-term user had to patch CSS to get invoices rendering to PDF correctly. Bank feeds and tax filing are not this slice. Licence has no standard SPDX id — check commercial terms.
Alternatives to these paid apps
Each comparison covers the workflow described above, rather than every paid feature.
