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Bookkeeping app for Mac

Desktop bookkeeping you buy once and own.

$79, one time. No subscription. Your books stay on your Mac.

See what $79 gets you How it works

Every feature · 2 Macs · 30-day refund

The Review screen in Shorestack Books: bank transactions for Harbor Rentals LLC, each with a suggested category and an Approve button. 1 2 3 4
  1. Which business. Switch between the businesses in your file.
  2. A suggested category. It comes from your rules and what you approved before.
  3. Approve. The app writes the journal entry. Nothing posts until you click it.
  4. Straight from the bank. Pulled in by a live feed or a statement file.

How it works

You The app
1

Connect your bank, or download a statement file and import it.

Pulls in every transaction and suggests a category for each one.

2

Look over each row. Fix a category if it guessed wrong. Click Approve.

Writes a balanced double-entry journal entry and remembers your choice for next time.

3

Open a report, or print it for your CPA.

Builds the P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and ledgers from those entries.

New to bookkeeping? The app opens in a simple view with banking, review, invoicing, and the P&L. The accountant's tools are one switch away when you want them.

Every business in one file.

Your company, your spouse's company, the rental, the side project. Each one keeps its own accounts, transactions, and reports.

Switch between them in the sidebar. When you need them together, say for a joint return, Consolidation puts any set of them side by side with a total.

A consolidated profit and loss report with a column for Marina Inc., a column for Harbor Rentals LLC, and a total column.
Consolidation: two businesses and the total.

At tax time, hand over one download.

Tax Handoff packages the year for your CPA: the P&L, the approved transaction detail with transfers set apart, and 1099 vendor totals. It prints the 1099-NEC forms too.

It won't file your taxes. Your CPA does that, from books that are already in order.

The Tax Handoff screen with the tax year picker and the export buttons.
Tax & Year-End, Tax Handoff.

Is it for you?

A good fit if you

  • run a US business with one to ten people
  • keep books for more than one business
  • are done paying a monthly fee for bookkeeping
  • want your books in a file on your own Mac

Not a fit if you need

  • Windows or an Intel Mac
  • payroll
  • several people editing the books at once
  • a currency other than US dollars

Shorestack Books · Solo license

The app, every feature
79.00
A second Mac
0.00
Businesses in one file
unlimited
Fixes and macOS updates
0.00
Monthly fee
0.00

Total, once$79.00

Pay once. Keep it.

Your license never expires. When a major new version comes out, the upgrade is optional and discounted, and the version you have keeps running.

Not the right fit? You have 30 days to ask for a refund, no questions asked.

Request beta access

In private beta now. Needs an Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer) with macOS 11 or later.

I built Shorestack Books because I couldn't find desktop bookkeeping that kept several businesses in one file and could add them up side by side. So I made it. Your books stay on your Mac, and you pay for it once.

Brandon Day, Days Management LLC