InvoiceShelf
Track expenses, payments & create professional invoices & estimates (fork of Crater).
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Still maintained? Yes: 485 commits in the last 90 days, latest release 2.4.7 (Oct 2026).
Comparisons in Money, Budgeting & Management: QuickBooks alternatives, FreshBooks alternatives, Stripe Billing alternatives, Chargebee alternatives.
At a glance
InvoiceShelf quick facts
- Health score
- 93/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 1,876
- Last commit
- 2 days ago (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- 2.4.7, Oct 2026
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Open-source invoicing for people who want to own their business data."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
InvoiceShelf scores 93/100, #15 of 43 in Money, Budgeting & Management: 485 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (2.4.7, 9 days ago) earns 25.0 of 25, 1,876 stars add 13.1 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 6.9 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
485 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
2.4.7 released 9 days ago
- Stars biggest shortfall 13.1 / 20
1.9k stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 485
- Last 90 days
- 815
- Last 12 months
- 2 days ago
- Last push
Ranked #15 of 43 tools in Money, Budgeting & Management by health , between IHateMoney (#14) and Bitcart (#16) .
Details
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Platforms | PHP, Docker |
| Latest release | 2.4.7 · 9 days ago |
| Stars | 1,876 |
| Open issues | 60 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | InvoiceShelf/InvoiceShelf ↗ |
InvoiceShelf vs its top 5 alternatives
Active tools that share a category with InvoiceShelf (Money, Budgeting & Management), scored on the same five terms.
| Tool | Health | Stars | Licence | Last commit |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HyperSwitch | 99 | 46k | Apache-2.0 | today |
| Sure | 96 | 11k | AGPL-3.0 | today |
| Kill Bill | 95 | 5.8k | Apache-2.0 | 2 days ago |
| IHateMoney | 93 | 1.4k | BSD-3-Clause | 3 months ago |
| InvoiceShelf (this tool) | 93 | 1.9k | AGPL-3.0 | 2 days ago |
| InvoicePlane | 84 | 3.3k | MIT | today |
InvoiceShelf: common questions
Is InvoiceShelf still maintained?
InvoiceShelf had 485 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was 2 days ago; the latest tagged release, 2.4.7, is from 9 days ago. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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