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Alternatives to QuickBooks

Accounting for small business.

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What is QuickBooks?
Small business accounting software from Intuit, sold as a cloud service and as desktop products.
What does it do?
Records income and expenses, imports bank transactions for reconciliation, sends invoices and tracks sales tax. Produces profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow reports, with payroll and card payments as paid add-ons.
Who is it for?
Small businesses that need real double-entry books, and the bookkeepers and accountants who work in their files. A freelancer sending a few invoices a month needs far less than this.
What are the alternatives to QuickBooks?
Wave covers invoicing and basic bookkeeping for very small businesses. Zoho Books suits companies already inside the Zoho ecosystem, while Akaunting and Manager can be self-hosted or run on your own machine.

Pricing

$30/mo

Paid

Top alternatives

Smaller, founder-led tools that quietly compete with QuickBooks.

Wave website preview

Free accounting + invoicing.

Free invoicing and accounting.

$16/mo
Zoho Books website preview

Accounting from Zoho.

Long-running bootstrapped alternative.

Akaunting website preview

Open-source accounting.

Free, self-hostable accounting software.

Manager website preview

Free accounting desktop app.

team, free desktop edition.

4 alternatives to QuickBooks (2026) · Startup Alternatives