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Overview

GnuCash

4.5

(53)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About GnuCash

GnuCash is on-premise accounting software that allows small businesses to track bank accounts, stocks, income and expenses. It is primarily designed to assist contractors and business owners with digital invoicing and internal billing.

Key features of GnuCash include financial calculations, balance-sheet creation, multiple currency accounts and vendor management. The scheduling module lets firms set up recurring transactions and send automated reminders on due dates. With the Income/Expense account tool, users can categorize cash flow and generate a profit and loss report. Further, the portfolio feature monitors stock markets and compiles relevant information from online sources.

GnuCash supports the open financial exchange (OFX) protocol and imports Quicken interchange format (QIF) files using an assistant. The solution comes with a mobile application for Android devices and support is offered via email.

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GnuCash User Interface

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Ratings Breakdown

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4.74Value for money
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4.23Functionality

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GnuCash Features

Popular features found in Accounting
Billing & Invoicing
Budgeting/Forecasting
Expense Tracking
Fund Accounting
Income & Balance Sheet
Multi-Currency
Payroll Management
Project Accounting
Purchase Order Management
Tax Management
More features of GnuCash
Accounting
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Approval Process Control
Bank Reconciliation
Financial Analysis
Financial Management
Financial Reporting
General Ledger
Invoice Processing
Profit/Loss Statement
Reminders
Transaction Management
Vendor Management

GnuCash User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.5

Ratings Breakdown

57%

34%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.7

Customer support

3.1

Functionality

4.2

Ionel Razvan G.

Verified reviewer

Computer Hardware

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2020

GnuCash accounting software

I have a monthly clear income/expense balance, so I know what expenses should be avoided or are needed.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A very good software for personal accounting, and for business accounting too. I am using it for my personal income/expense balance.

Cons:

I had troubles to use it on Mac OS X. I almost lost all my accounting details. Lucky me that I use an automatic backup solution.

Verified

Reviewer

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2018

It's a free, professional, accounting software, kind of usable for personal finance

Ratings Breakdown

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Value for money

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Pros:

I use it to keep my personal finance. It's also a professional tool so it has many features that I will probably never use, but they don't get much in the way. Double entry is a powerful tool when you get the grasps of it, making it possible to bind together transactions between more than two accounts. It can also track stock prices and it's possible to update them with some setup. Charts and reports are available and very flexible. It's free and open source, so you can trust it with your numbers. There are mobile apps that help you not bringing around dozens of receipts to remember where you've spent your money.

Cons:

If you're not a professional accountant, you'll need some time to get used to "double entry", and I still get confused sometimes. The setup of stock prices update is definitely not easy (esp. on Linux). Charts and reports require quite some work to get the most out of them, the presets are not that insightful. The Android app I use (GnuCash for Android) is nice but the export/import procedure is annoying: in some cases, you even have to tell GnuCash which date format you're using, and you probably have no idea without checking in the XML file!

SK J.

Verified reviewer

Information Services

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Robust free accounting software but support not that fast

For my business needs, I believe GNUCash is the answer though support when faced with a problem not always that fast.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

For those who are searching for a free accounting software for their individual or small business needs, GNUCash is perhaps the best given the robust features incorporated and a large community base. Being open source, the possibilities are endless for developers who can always add new codes to suit the needs.

Cons:

Unfortunately, the support is not fast if one faces a hurdle. As a user, if you want to post a query on their forum, you need to subscribe. In my case, I could not understand this condition and so my query was reverted back. GNUCash perhaps should address this point. I then posted my thread to another popular forum (StackExchange: Personal Finances & Money) and received first reply only after one month!

Kevin W.

Verified reviewer

Consumer Services

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2019

Works great, wish it had multi-user

I have been using it for years for my personal needs. I would recommend it to more customers / clients if it could be used on multiple systems. As it stands though, I have recommended it to numerous people that just have one person in accounting / sales / etc.

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Ease of use

Value for money

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Pros:

It is free, just a click to download and install on Windows. A quick install from the application manager in Linux/Debian/Ubuntu.

Cons:

It does not support multi-users. Meaning if you have the file open on one system, you can not open that company on another. So if you want two people to be able to invoice at the same time, they can't.

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Reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Great open source accounting software

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I can setup the accounting structure however I like. It uses double entry bookkeeping to keep track of income and expenses. Does a good job tracking investments and can calculate capital gains based on lots bought/sold for better accuracy. Lots of reporting features.

Cons:

Getting used to the double entry system took some time. It used to be able to get online quotes for stocks, but that feature no longer works well. Not their fault since Yahoo broke it, but there isn't a reliable fix yet.

Rajeev B.

Verified reviewer

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Best free open source accounting software for personal finance

No need to pay for subscriptions. No fee and completely free.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

This is perhaps the best free open source accounting software for personal finance which is also used for business accounting by SMEs. As there is a large community of users, one can stay assured of the latest updates as well as forum support.

Cons:

This is not cloud-based. One needs to download the software. There is a learning curve. One needs to follow documentation which fortunately is well compiled.

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Reviewer

Printing

2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2019

Free accounts software that is very reliable

I needed an accounts software package that was able to generate invoices and track payments, and GnuCash has been working well for us.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I like that this software is free, with no hidden payments unlike other software packages we looked at.

Cons:

Because it doesn't seem to be very popular, I had to learn how to use it from the manual. But it is compatible with other data formats.

Sylvain D.

Verified reviewer

Accounting

Self-Employed

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2018

A lot for your money

I am using gnucash for my personnal usage.

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Value for money

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Functionality

Pros:

The application is really reliable, easy to maintain and quite flexible.

Cons:

I would like if the application could sync with my bank (BNC)

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Reviewer

Computer & Network Security

2-10 employees

Used other for free trial

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

it works, for the most part

i would really like to use this software. we are trying to convert over from quicken. the import function does bring all the data over, but it doesn't necessarily bring it over right. if a user was starting clean, i think the software would probably work really well. if you are importing, it's not going to work for you. perhaps other import functions work better than from quicken, but i do not know. so, your mileage may vary.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

i like the look and feel of the software. i am used to using quicken, and this looks almost the same. there are differences, but that is to be expected.

Cons:

the import of data from other software does not work that well. i have tried numerous times to import data from quicken, and it does not come out right.