📒 Ironbooks

QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise power. Your machine. Your AI. No subscription.

Open-source double-entry accounting for Windows, macOS and Linux. The database itself refuses to let your books go out of balance.

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💡 Why Ironbooks

QuickBooks Desktop runs on rising subscriptions and a shrinking product line. Cloud accounting puts your clients’ books on someone else’s server. Ironbooks is the third option:

• 🔒 Your books never leave your computer. The company file is one file you own, like a .QBW. There’s no account, no telemetry and no lock-in.
• ⚖️ Unbalanced books are impossible, not just unlikely. Ledger rules run as database triggers. An unbalanced entry, a hand-edited balance, or a change to a posted line is rejected at commit, whatever code path tries it.
• 🤖 AI that works for you, on your hardware. Local models…