Finance and accounting
QuickBooks Online alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
TNT-Likely/BeeCount★2,056 GitHub starslicence unclearLocal-first, cross-platform bookkeeping app with sync and AI-assisted transaction capture.Open on GitHub ↗mayswind/ezbookkeeping★5,361 GitHub starsMIT licenceLightweight, self-hosted personal finance and bookkeeping web application with user-friendly UI.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Built-in banking/payment integrations and their certifications
- Hosted payments, merchant onboarding, and money-movement licensing
- Payroll tax filing and regulated payroll services
- Priority support, expert-guided onboarding, and Intuit-trained AI models
- Large ecosystem of 800+ third-party integrations and App Store
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches QuickBooks Online, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.