Akaunting
Accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers.
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Still maintained? Yes: 185 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 3.3.0 (Oct 2026).
Also an alternative to QuickBooks, FreshBooks and Stripe Billing.
At a glance
Akaunting quick facts
- Health score
- 86/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 10,253
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 3.3.0, Oct 2026
- Licence
- BUSL-1.1
Top alternatives to Akaunting
Full rankings: QuickBooks alternatives, FreshBooks alternatives, Stripe Billing alternatives
In its own words
The project's README opens: "Online accounting software designed for small businesses and freelancers. Akaunting is built with modern technologies such as Laravel, VueJS, Tailwind, RESTful API etc. Thanks to its modular structure, Akaunting provides an awesome App Store for users and developers."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Akaunting scores 86/100, #24 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 185 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (3.3.0, 3 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 10,253 stars add 16.0 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and no advertised Docker image leaves the final 10 unclaimed. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is Docker support, worth 10.0 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
185 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
3.3.0 released 3 days ago
- Stars 16.0 / 20
10k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support biggest shortfall 0.0 / 10
No Docker support advertised
Commit activity
- 185
- Last 90 days
- 549
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #24 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between Expensave (#23) and BTCPay Server (#25) .
Details
| Licence | BUSL-1.1 |
| Platforms | PHP |
| Latest release | 3.3.0 · 3 days ago |
| Stars | 10,253 |
| Open issues | 3 |
| Docker | Not advertised |
| Repository | akaunting/akaunting ↗ |
Akaunting vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a comparison page or a category with Akaunting (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invoice Ninja | 96 | 10k | Elastic-2.0 | today |
| Lago | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | yesterday |
| Kill Bill | 95 | 5.8k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| Bigcapital | 94 | 4k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| LedgerSMB | 91 | 571 | GPL-2.0 | yesterday |
| Akaunting (this tool) | 86 | 10k | BUSL-1.1 | yesterday |
Akaunting: common questions
What does Akaunting replace?
Repoly lists Akaunting as an open-source alternative to QuickBooks, FreshBooks and Stripe Billing. Each comparison page ranks every alternative by the same health score, so you can see where Akaunting stands against the others.
Is Akaunting still maintained?
Akaunting had 185 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, 3.3.0, is from 3 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.