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Open source alternatives to FreshBooks

We track 4 open-source FreshBooks alternatives, of which 4 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 2 ship a Docker image. Invoice Ninja leads on health at 96/100 with 287 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, BUSL-1.1, Elastic-2.0 and 1 other licences.

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25k
Combined stars
1,151
Commits / 90 days
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All 4 FreshBooks alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Invoice Ninja

    96 GOOD

    Powerful tool to invoice clients online.

    ★ 10k · ⟳ 2 days ago · v5.13.40 · Elastic-2.0

    DockerPHPK8S
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Bigcapital

    94 GOOD

    Financial accounting and inventory management software for small to medium businesses.

    ★ 3.9k · ⟳ today · v0.25.39 · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Akaunting

    86 GOOD

    Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.

    ★ 10k · ⟳ today · 3.2.3 · BUSL-1.1

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

FreshBooks alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to FreshBooks?

Invoice Ninja scores highest at 96/100, with 287 commits in the last 90 days, 10k GitHub stars and its latest release (v5.13.40) published 2 days ago. Bigcapital has the most raw commit activity at 398 commits in 90 days.

Which FreshBooks alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 4 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): SolidInvoice (MIT). 1 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which FreshBooks alternatives run in Docker?

2 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Invoice Ninja, Bigcapital. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.