Open source alternative to QuickBooks Online, Xero and FreshBooks
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Manage invoices, expenses, and double-entry books locally with a free open source accounting app for freelancers and small businesses.
Use Frappe Books to create invoices, record payments, track expenses, and produce basic profit reports without paying for a cloud accounting suite.
You need payroll, accountant portal workflows, or bank feeds that must match a local compliance process.
Use Frappe Books when a small retail workflow needs POS, payment tracking, and double-entry accounting in one desktop app.
You need a mature ecommerce or inventory ecosystem tied to many third-party integrations.
Use Frappe Books when financial work must continue without internet access and local file ownership matters.
Your team needs every accountant and operator editing the same cloud ledger at the same time.
Small businesses often pay for cloud accounting suites before they need payroll, accountant workflows, or large integration catalogs. The bigger issue is ownership: financial records, invoices, and reports sit inside a subscription service even when the business only needs basic double-entry books. Offline work also breaks down when a cloud accounting product assumes every session has reliable internet access.
Records debits and credits for transactions, which gives small teams proper bookkeeping discipline instead of simple income and expense lists.
Stores accounting data on the user's machine in SQLite. This keeps books available offline and avoids cloud lock-in for basic records.
Covers invoice creation, payment recording, bills, vendor payments, journal entries, and general ledger workflows from one desktop app.
Includes profit and loss, balance sheet, trial balance, and general ledger reports, which are the baseline reports most small businesses need for bookkeeping review.
Install the macOS desktop app with Homebrew, or download the Windows and Linux installers from the GitHub releases page.
```bash
brew install --cask frappe-books
```Yes. Frappe Books records transactions with balanced debit and credit entries.
Yes. Frappe Books works offline and stores data locally with SQLite.
Frappe Books fits freelancers and small businesses that need invoices, expenses, POS, and reports without paying for a larger cloud accounting platform.
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