replacing FreshBooks
Invoicing and accounting for freelancers — FreshBooks pricing: $8.50-$27.50/month. Below: 2 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There are 2 open source FreshBooks alternatives tracked on this registry, against FreshBooks pricing of $8.50-$27.50/month. The most-adopted is Invoice Ninja with 10,086 GitHub stars, written in PHP. Together the set has 18,434 stars across 1 language and 1 licence. All 2 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 1 of 2 received a commit in the last 90 days. 2 head-to-head FreshBooks comparisons are available.
Invoice Ninja is a source-available invoice, quote, project, and time-tracking application built with Laravel and PHP. It lives in the Laravel ecosystem and is positioned as an open alternative to QuickBooks, Xero, and FreshBooks. The project provides a web application, API, desktop clients, and mobile clients for businesses that need to bill clients and manage payment-related work.
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Crater is an open-source web and mobile application for tracking expenses and payments and for creating professional invoices and estimates. The web application is built with Laravel and VueJS, while the mobile applications are built with React Native. It lives in the PHP and Laravel ecosystem, is distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license, and is positioned as an open alternative to QuickBooks and FreshBooks.
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last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
Invoice Ninja is the most-starred open source alternative to FreshBooks in this registry, with 10,086 GitHub stars. 2 alternatives are compared here in total.
Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.
Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.