frappe/books

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

4903 stars · 1133 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Frappe Books is a free, open-source desktop accounting application for small and medium businesses, built with Electron, Vue.js, and TypeScript. It offers double-entry bookkeeping, invoicing, payments, financial reports, point of sale, and offline-first operation with local data files.

Use cases

• manage small business bookkeeping offline
• create and send professional invoices
• track double-entry accounting entries
• generate profit and loss and balance sheet reports
• run a simple point of sale for retail
• manage inventory and billing in one desktop app

When to choose

• you want free, open-source accounting software with a modern UI
• you need offline desktop accounting with local data files
• you run a small business needing invoicing, POS, and financial reports
• you want customizable invoice templates via HTML

When to avoid

• you need multi-user cloud accounting with real-time collaboration
• you require payroll or country-specific tax compliance beyond built-in charts of accounts
• you want a web-based or mobile accounting solution

Facets

application · maturity active

gui developer-tools fintech desktop-applications developer-tools cross-platform windows cross-platform accounting double-entry-accounting invoicing bookkeeping point-of-sale offline-first inventory-management vuejs typescript small-business linux macos desktop electron

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