Here’s a roundup of well designed financial management apps to help you with invoicing, bookkeeping, and personal finance. Are there any others that should have been included? Please share with a comment below.
Invoicing
FreshBooks allows you to send and manage invoices, track your time, and track expenses for both yourself and your clients. FreshBooks also has a number of add-ons (http://community.freshbooks.com/addons/) and provides an iPhone app.
- http://www.freshbooks.com/
- Free with paid plans starting at $19/month
Ballpark is an invoicing app that allows you to share and collaborate on invoices with your team and see who has sent invoices and to whom. They take invoicing a step further by focusing on the communication that happens around invoicing and provides a centralized solution to ensure that you and your team, along with client(s), are on the same page.
- http://ballparkapp.com/
- Free plan available with paid plans starting at $12/month
Blinksale is a simple app that allows you to create and send invoices and track payments. They also allow you to easily import clients from Basecamp.
- http://www.blinksale.com
- Free trial with paid plan starting at $6/month
SimplyInvoices allows you to easily invoice for time tracked in Basecamp, LessTimeSpend, Tick, or Harvest.
- http://www.simplyinvoices.com/
- Free plan with paid plans starting at $9/month
Bookkeeping/Financial Management
In addition to creating and sending invoices, LessAccounting allows you to track your expenses and provides nightly bank data integration. You can also grant access to your accountant and they can login to view your finances and export any needed reports or data.
- https://lessaccounting.com
- Free plan available with paid plans starting at $12/month
Outright is a free online bookkeeping app that tracks your records and taxes. You can also import data directly from FreshBooks and/or Shoeboxed.
- http://outright.com/
- Free
Pulse allows you to easily track your income and expenses by day, week, or month and organize your income and expenses by company or project. Pulse is built for small businesses and freelancers.
- http://pulseapp.com/
- Free plan with paid plans starting at $9/month
Personal Finance
With SmartyPig you create an account, set a savings goal, and start saving. You can invite others to join and help you save. There’s also a widget that you can add to your site to share your progress and allow others to help. Your savings earn interest and are FDIC insured.
Mint, who was recently acquired by Intuit, allows you to track your expenses and see where you’re spending your money, analyzes the interest rate you’ve been paying on your credit card to see if you should switch to a different card, manage your budget, and manage your investments. There’s also an iPhone app available.
- http://www.mint.com/
- Free
Wesabe takes a different angle on personal financial management and creates a community around its users allowing you to connect and gain insight from others. Wesabe also provides an iPhone app.
I hope you found this roundup of financial apps helpful. Please share any that were not included that you would recommend.
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Great list!
I would also recommend freelancetotal.com as a great invoicing tool for freelancers
Thanks Luke! I’ll check out freelancetotal.com
Hey Brandon!
Thanks for putting so much research into this and, of course, for including FreshBooks on the list : )
iContact, eh? I believe that’s where my friend, Taylor Barr, works! Say hi for me!
Rayanne Langdon — Queen of Hearts, FreshBooks.com
Hi Rayanne! You are correct! Taylor works with us. I’ll be sure to tell him ‘Hello’ for you. Keep up the great work at FreshBooks. You guys are rocking it!
Hey Brandon,
I would recommend Zoho Invoice for online invoicing.
Our complete feature list – Tour
Zoho Invoice helps you to invoice at ease.
Have a great day.
Nagendra – Zoho Invoice
Hi Brandon,
I am a big fan of Fanurio http://www.fanuriotimetracking.com . It helps with the less appealing aspects of freelancing like keeping track of time and invoicing. It’s a useful application, with a user-friendly interface.
Hey All
I have been using the services of http://www.invoicera.com for quite sometime now and they are coming up with the new Invoicera with features like time-tracking, expense tracking, import function, and much more. Check out their blog at http://www.invoicera.com/blog for updates
Cheers!!!