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[Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/gnucash-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/gnucash-profile/alternatives/) # GnuCash User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.5/5 - Total reviews: 53 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 3.1/5 - Value for money: 4.7/5 - Functionality: 4.2/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 30 reviews (57%) - 4 stars: 18 reviews (34%) - 3 stars: 5 reviews (9%) - 2 stars: 0 reviews (0%) - 1 star: 0 reviews (0%) ### Most mentioned pros - It kind of took a little time to get used to it since its more detailed than other apps but it really helped me track my income, expenses and savings. - The easy of use also the program simplify the data entry that it helping for the financial reporting and getting strategic solution for any business you have. - It's great that this is a cost effective software but would not be suitable for a beginner in accounting. ### Most mentioned cons - The UI to create graphs is the main weakness of GnuCash, the time spent reporting is a deal breaker. - The app is suitable for personal financing and the operations of small firms but I do not think it has the capability to cover the full accounting needs for medium and large organizations . - My CPA and other accounting resources were not familiar with the program at all, so I was left to searching on the Internet ## GnuCash customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 53 (page 1). ### GnuCash accounting software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Ionel Razvan G. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Hardware - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2020 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have a monthly clear income/expense balance, so I know what expenses should be avoided or are needed. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### It's a free, professional, accounting software, kind of usable for personal finance - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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! --- ### Robust free accounting software but support not that fast - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: SK J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: August 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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! --- ### Works great, wish it had multi-user - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Kevin W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Consumer Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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. --- ### Great open source accounting software - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### Best free open source accounting software for personal finance - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rajeev B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: July 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. No need to pay for subscriptions. No fee and completely free. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### Free accounts software that is very reliable - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Printing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: February 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### 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. --- ### A lot for your money - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Sylvain D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I am using gnucash for my personnal usage. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### 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) --- ### it works, for the most part - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used other for free trial - Reviewed: December 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. 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: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### 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. --- ### useful for little business or family - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Giuseppe B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Executive Office - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used other for less than 6 months - Reviewed: January 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It is simple and easy to use, it is free #### Cons maybe it is not so complete and somebody could miss some features --- ### GnuCash does it all - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Terry A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have used GnuCash for over 10 years on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 10. It was an excellent package when I started and has improved with updates. Having taught accounting, I find it provides everything needed for personal and business use. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros GnuCash has drop-down menus to access everything needed in reporting. One drop-down menu has a link to automatically generate all closing entries at the end of the year. When making entries, it will remember information for last corresponding entry, just change amount. #### Cons I can generate a long list of back-up files, if not tuned properly. #### Reasons for switching to GnuCash GnuCash provided more features --- ### I have been using GnuCash for 5 years - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nestor Z. - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2018 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I will continue to use for my personal and business needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Very nice functional multi ledger, double-entry accounting with QIX/F files and bank statement imports. You can create balance sheet and income statement financial reports which you can customize and print. Love the price ;) and not being tied to yearly licenses and support up-selling. #### Cons Setting it up takes some work specially when you use it to for business, but GnuCash has a thriving community with lots of information in the web and your bookkeeper should not have trouble finding answers. You can also find resources that could help you further customize the application to suit your business. --- ### Great for personal financing but doesn't scale that well - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Katy T. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros You can use GnuCash free of charge and it is fairly easy to use .Linking to different accounts at the same time is convenient and so is arranging for automatic payments to be made . This is especially convenient if you prefer to be more hands-off with your investments . #### Cons The app is suitable for personal financing and the operations of small firms but I do not think it has the capability to cover the full accounting needs for medium and large organizations . The necessary infrastructure to cover the cases of hundreds+ customers just isn't there . --- ### Really happy with it - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Claire D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: November 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros GNU Cash is free to use . It has an Excel like design ,quickly making you familiar with the process .Your finances will be more organized and you'll be glad to have it . #### Cons There is a lot of manual data entry at the beginning . --- ### Great value - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Dima E. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: October 2018 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros GnuCash helped me lift my budgeting efforts to the next level .The interface looks like an Excel spreadsheet ,which breeds familiarity and in my opinion,eases the "getting to know you" phase of the process #### Cons Manually adding all of your income ,expenses and other misc items takes a lot of time. --- ### Best tool to Manage Personal Finance - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Nirmal K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I've personally used this tool to learn more about accounting and also to manage my personal finance. It helps identify the imbalance and the missing transactions. Being open-source software, there is regular development and bug fixes. #### Cons 1) The UI looks a bit outdated 2) Automations are limited and need more clicks to get the data added 3) Need more user-friendly features for handling advanced finance --- ### A great free option - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Daniel D. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: January 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Free, professional features, a chance to learn good accounting practice #### Cons Outdated, sometime intimidating graphical user interface --- ### Cheap n Easy - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: crystal w. - Product usage: Used unspecified for unspecified - Reviewed: January 2017 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It's ok, not as impressive as others I've seen. You can customize it and it's rather simple to figure out if you're a beginner. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 --- ### Good for Small Ventures - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Daniel W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer & Network Security - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have loved GnuCash and used it for my smaller ventures, but at a certain point you will likely scale out of it due to needing additional features that you can only get in a paid product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 1/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love that GnuCash is a fully featured financial tracking software that was free! #### Cons The negatives with GnuCash is that it didn't offer everything that the paid products offered such as automatic import of transactions, automated invoice sending and payment receiving, payroll, etc. But when you consider the product is free, it really can't be beaten. #### Reasons for choosing GnuCash GnuCash was free. When starting out the free price point was a plus, and considering that it could track basically everything I needed it to track I couldn't complain! --- ### The perfect open source solution for accounting and personal finance - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Priam R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Accounting - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Open source accounting application perfect for personal finance and small businesses that does not rely on the internet to be useable. Probably one of the best money management applications out there. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 2/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I like the open source quality and offline access of the GnuCash. Allows me to use advanced level accounting concepts to manage my personal finances. #### Cons The user interface is a little outdated and has not been updated in a long time. The learning curve is also steep in the beginning. --- ### A free tool for managing small business finances and Personal Use! - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Ahmed I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Transportation/ Trucking/ Railroad - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I use it personally, not with any business. It kind of took a little time to get used to it since its more detailed than other apps but it really helped me track my income, expenses and savings. The double-entry system helped me stay accurate aswell. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros It's free and opensource! The code is available for customization for anyone interested in tweaking around, makes it perfect for people on low-budget and small businesses. It also supports multiple currencies. #### Cons It's not really beginner friendly. I feel like you'd need to be an accountant to understand the software itself and the outdated UI also doesn't help. --- ### Assists in keeping good track of all incomes and expenses - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Hicham B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Management Consulting - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I have used GnuCash for my small business and the software has been useful in keeping a detailed ledger. It can also efficiently import QIF and OFX files which makes transaction organizing a cinch. It is an effective solution in financial analysis. #### Cons Sometimes I have had slowdowns mainly in running portfolio valuation reports, though this is rare. This can hamper my work a little especially when typing activities involve multiple accounts or several transactions. --- ### Solid Accounting for Small Business! - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Joan C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Financial Services - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for less than 6 months - Reviewed: May 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall, the software is able to provide the necessary reports and financial analysis that was needed for the company. It's great that this is a cost effective software but would not be suitable for a beginner in accounting. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 2/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros The initial reason for using GnuCash was that it is a free accounting software. This was great for a small business. #### Cons GnuCash provided minimum access if working remote or on various devices since it's only a desktop application. This proved to be something necessary for my company. #### Reasons for choosing GnuCash Our company ended up going with GnuCash for its no cost software. This was the best option since we were starting out our business and did not have the means to invest a costly program that would provide similar information. --- ### GnuCash Program - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Rachid K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Banking - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. GnuCash is an open source that you can use to enter and manage bank accounts and income. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros The easy of use also the program simplify the data entry that it helping for the financial reporting and getting strategic solution for any business you have. #### Cons You can unified interface as per as bank accounts, expenses and incomes. --- ### Excellent, totally free, and perfect for small business - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: David K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Electrical/ Electronic Manufacturing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros 1) Works perfectly adequate for my business 2) It’s open source, so one is not locked in to paying a monthly fee. 3) It runs on multiple platforms #### Cons I have found it perfect, but I do see a problem that might make it unusable in some businesses. Only one person can enter transactions at any one time. So if you have 10 sales people all taking orders, they could not all be entering transactions at the same time. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/accounting/gnucash-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- GnuCash Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice