Invoify vs Xero
Invoify and Xero are both accounting software. Invoify is open source under MIT, with 6.4k GitHub stars. Xero is a commercial product from Xero Limited.
Which to pick
- Pick Invoify when
- You need to produce good-looking one-off invoices without signing up for an invoicing service.
- Pick Xero when
- A small business in New Zealand, Australia or the UK wants mainstream cloud accounting that local accountants support.
Side by side
A web invoice generator with 13 templates, live preview, PDF rendering with headless Chromium, email sending and data kept in the browser.
Cloud accounting for small businesses with bank feeds, invoicing, bills, payroll in some countries, GST/VAT and a large app marketplace.
No client ledger or payment tracking, and saved invoices live only in that browser's storage.
Plans cap invoices and bills on lower tiers, and multi-entity consolidation needs add-ons.
Usable
Production-ready
Cloud service and self-hosted server
Cloud service and mobile app
TypeScript, Next.js, React, shadcn/ui and Tailwind CSS
Not published
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source, sold by Xero Limited
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
6.4k GitHub stars
1.4k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Established: started 3 years ago, no tagged release yet.
Not known
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.