One payment. No subscription. Your data stays on your computer — always.
Pricing based on QuickBooks Simple Start at $38/mo as of 2026. CoreBooks is not affiliated with or endorsed by Intuit Inc.
Every invoice, every transaction, every report — stored in a single file on your machine. Copy it to a USB drive. Back it up to anywhere. Move it when you switch computers. No one else has access to your numbers.
~/Documents/CoreBooks/.corebooks fileInvoicing, bills, expenses, bank reconciliation, profit & loss, balance sheet — everything a freelancer or small business needs. No payroll module you'll never use. No enterprise features padded into your tier.
CoreBooks is a desktop app. It doesn't need an internet connection to open, to invoice a customer, or to pull a report. No "service unavailable" pages. No waiting for the cloud to respond.
Every transaction posts a proper journal entry automatically. Your books are always balanced. Your accountant gets a real P&L and Balance Sheet at tax time — not a spreadsheet.
No tiers, no add-ons, no "upgrade to unlock." Everything CoreBooks has is yours from day one.
Create professional invoices with line items, tax, and notes. Track status from draft to paid. Export as PDF.
Enter bills from vendors, record payments, and track quick expenses with receipt attachments — all stored locally.
Import bank statements via OFX, QFX, or CSV. Match transactions to your ledger and mark them reconciled.
P&L, Balance Sheet, AR & AP Aging, General Ledger — all exportable to PDF and CSV. Give your accountant exactly what they need.
Maintain a full contact list for customers and vendors. Payment history, billing address, outstanding balance — all in one place.
Every transaction creates a proper journal entry automatically. Full audit trail — entries are voided, never deleted.
Log contractor payments, flag anyone who hits the $600 IRS threshold, and export a ready-to-file 1099 data report at year-end.
Export your data from QuickBooks Online and import it in one step — accounts, customers, vendors, invoices, and transactions come with you.
Record check payments from any bank account and print them on standard blank check stock. Check numbers auto-increment and post to your ledger automatically.
Apply a single customer payment across multiple open invoices at once. Partial applies, running balance, and outstanding totals — all handled correctly.
Attach a PO number, job number, or contract ID to any invoice, bill, or expense. Unique per record and searchable — no more digging through PDFs to cross-reference.
Send professional estimates to prospects. Convert accepted quotes to invoices in one click — no re-entering data.
See at a glance which invoices are past due and by how many days. AR aging keeps you on top of what you're owed.
Apply tax rates to invoices and track collected sales tax separately. Export a tax summary at year-end for easy filing.
Auto-backup on every launch. Save manual backups as a portable .corebooks file and restore on any machine — schema migrations included.
~/Documents/CoreBooks/. It's a standard SQLite file you can copy, back up to Dropbox, or move to a new machine at any time.Buy once. Keep forever.
Buy CoreBooks — $149