Planned
On your desktop
Free, standalone accounting for freelancers and solo operators. Local to your computer, designed to work offline, without a server to set up.
No desktop installer yet.
OpenLedgerApp
Your books.
Your understanding. Your control.
Open-source double-entry accounting for small businesses, freelancers, and nonprofits. Built for the people doing the work, not just the people who speak accounting.
Small teams deserve
better books.
A freelancer shouldn't need an enterprise system to understand a good month. A community nonprofit shouldn't need to become an accounting department to keep honest records.
We're building a smaller, clearer alternative: proper accounting underneath, language you understand on top, and source code you can inspect. Software that works for your organization, not the other way around.
A ledger.
Not a magic wand.
Good software starts with being clear about what it doesn't do.
Not your accountant
It organizes records and produces reports. It doesn't provide financial, tax, or legal advice, or replace your judgment.
Not an everything-suite
No payroll, automated tax filing, or live bank feeds today. Nonprofit funds are basic tags, not full fund accounting.
Not a finished product
This is pre-1.0 software under active development. Review every result and keep independent backups before relying on it for real books.
One ledger. Your way to run it.
Three editions are the goal. Today, we're building the web foundation.
Development source available
On your server
The open-source community edition on infrastructure you control. Run the web app for yourself or your team, with your own backups and updates.
Setup instructions available now.
Evolving
In the cloud
A managed option for people who want the same approachable books without operating a server. The current hosted app remains in development.
Commercial offering and pricing to come.
The desktop edition is intended to be free. Optional donations may help sustain the project later; there is no donation program or cloud price announced today.
Start with the source.
Download the development version, follow the setup guide, and help shape what comes next. A more self-contained app is on the roadmap.