Bigcapital vs Invoify
Bigcapital and Invoify are both accounting software. Bigcapital is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 3.9k GitHub stars. Invoify is open source under MIT, with 6.4k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Bigcapital when
- A small business or developer wants a self-hosted QuickBooks-style ledger with an API.
- Pick Invoify when
- You need to produce good-looking one-off invoices without signing up for an invoicing service.
Side by side
Double-entry accounting with invoices, bills, expenses, inventory, bank transactions and financial reports, also usable headless through its API.
A web invoice generator with 13 templates, live preview, PDF rendering with headless Chromium, email sending and data kept in the browser.
Still pre-1.0, AGPL licensed, and it lacks the bank feeds and tax filing integrations of Xero or QuickBooks.
No client ledger or payment tracking, and saved invoices live only in that browser's storage.
Usable (both)
Self-hosted server and cloud service
Cloud service and self-hosted server
TypeScript, Node.js, React, MySQL and Redis
TypeScript, Next.js, React, shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
3.9k GitHub stars
6.4k GitHub stars
Established: started 5 years ago, latest release v0.25.45.
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from each project's README and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.