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Open source alternatives to QuickBooks

We track 5 open-source QuickBooks alternatives, of which 5 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Invoice Ninja leads on health at 96/100 with 287 commits in the last 90 days; across all 5 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, BUSL-1.1, Elastic-2.0 and 2 other licences.

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32k
Combined stars
3,105
Commits / 90 days
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Showing 5 of 5 tools

All 5 QuickBooks 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 ↗

  • LedgerSMB

    91 GOOD

    Integrated accounting and ERP system for small and midsize businesses, with double entry accounting, budgeting, invoicing, quotations, projects, orders and inventory management, shipping and more.

    ★ 566 · ⟳ today · 1.13.8 · GPL-2.0

    DockerPerl
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Akaunting

    86 GOOD

    Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.

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

    PHP
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Dolibarr

    86 GOOD

    Modern CRM software package to manage your company or foundation activity (contacts, suppliers, invoices, orders, stocks, agenda, accounting, ...).

    ★ 7.6k · ⟳ today · 24.0.1 · GPL-3.0

    PHPdeb
    Website ↗ Source ↗

QuickBooks alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to QuickBooks?

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. Dolibarr has the most raw commit activity at 2057 commits in 90 days.

Which QuickBooks alternatives use a permissive licence?

None of the 5 tracked alternatives use a permissive licence; 3 are copyleft (GPL, AGPL or similar), which requires publishing changes to any modified version you distribute.

Which QuickBooks alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 5 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Invoice Ninja, Bigcapital, LedgerSMB. 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.