How we compare

You get the offline reliability and data ownership of a desktop app, plus a modern interface, a deterministic AI workforce and correct-by-construction GST — without the dense, accountant-only UI and the licence-plus-AMC pricing.

Your books stay on your machine and the full core works offline, so a network blip never stops you billing or closing books. You keep modern UX and sharing, and intelligence ships in every plan rather than as per-seat cloud upsells.

Yes — GST invoices are correct by construction, with e-invoice (IRN), e-way bill, direct GSTR-1/3B filing via your GSP and GSTR-2B reconciliation, plus posted double-entry books and a GST error catcher.

You start with a masters import (customers, vendors, products) and opening balances; a guided transactional import is on the roadmap. Your old software’s history stays available there for reference.

Our column is verified against the shipped product — by reading the code, not the marketing site — so a yes means the capability exists today. The other column is a judgement across typical desktop and cloud accounting apps, which is why several rows carry notes explaining the spread; the footnote under the table says the same thing — capabilities vary by product and plan.

That the capability exists somewhere in the category but depends on which product and which tier you buy — it is not a euphemism for no. The row notes spell it out: many desktop apps are only partly offline, and core accounting is often gated behind higher tiers elsewhere. Where the honest category answer is no — the GST error catcher and offline deterministic AI rows — we mark no, not partial.

Yes. Each per-competitor page lists that product’s genuine strengths alongside the rows where we differ, because a table that only records wins is an advert, not a comparison. The general table here follows the same rule: rows use partial with an explanatory note where typical products genuinely deliver, instead of defaulting everything to no.

Three places, and we name them. There is no public API or webhooks, so deep custom integrations are out for now. There is no payroll or HRMS, so we cannot file Form 24Q. And there is no native mobile app — the Cloud edition runs in a mobile browser instead. If one of those is a hard requirement, a product that has it is the better choice today.

Run your own awkward documents through both products during the trial — your messiest GST invoice, a credit note against a part-paid bill, your real item list — rather than trusting any feature table, including this one. The 14-day trial needs no card, so the cheapest evidence available is watching your own books behave correctly in each product before you commit.

Because a claim about a named product has to be checked against that product’s current plans and behaviour, and those change. This page compares against typical desktop and cloud accounting apps in general — the footnote under the table says exactly that — while the specific, named claims live on the individual per-competitor pages, where each can be kept accurate on its own.