How DoubleBooks works
Keep personal and business money in separate ledgers, record what happened in plain terms, and let real double-entry accounting keep your books balanced.
- Separate ledgers, one app
- Keep a personal ledger and a business ledger side by side. Each one is its own set of books. You switch between them without ever mixing the two.
- Real double-entry accounting
- Every amount comes from somewhere and goes somewhere, so your books always balance. You get the discipline of double-entry without doing the bookkeeping by hand.
- Move money between ledgers
- Pay yourself a salary from the business, or invest more of your own money into it. Record the transfer once and both ledgers stay right, so you can see where the money went.
- One clear picture
- See balances and reports for one ledger at a time, or step back and look across all of them. You know what you are making and what you are keeping, personal and business together.
A ledger for each part of your life
Most money apps pour everything into one pile and leave you to sort it out. DoubleBooks keeps a separate ledger for your personal money and one for each business you run.
Each ledger is its own complete set of books, with its own accounts, its own balances, and its own reports. You switch between them in a click, and nothing ever bleeds from one into another.
Double-entry, done for you
In double-entry accounting, every amount comes from one place and lands in another. That is what keeps your books honest: the two sides always match.
You record what happened in plain terms, like paying a bill or depositing a check. DoubleBooks handles both sides so your balances stay correct, and you never have to think in debits and credits unless you want to.
Move money without losing track
Pay yourself a salary from the business. Put more of your own money into it. Each is a transfer between two separate ledgers, not a shared expense.
You record each transfer once, and both ledgers stay right. When tax time comes, you can see exactly what moved between them and why.
Reports that tell you the truth
Look at one ledger to see how a single business is doing. Step back to see personal and business money together.
Balances, income, and spending are always up to date, because they are built from what you recorded, not from a monthly import you have to reconcile.
And your books stay yours
Your ledgers are plain files on your own computer. The desktop app is free, export always works, and if you stop paying for online sync you keep your data.
About the free desktop app →