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Akaunting

Accounting on a Business Source Licence with a tight use grant.

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9/19 signals

Why this score

The licence is source-available. You can read the code, but it is not an OSI open-source licence. Captured 2026-10-15. Unmeasured signals add nothing and are not treated as failures.

Alive14/20
  • Last push. 8 points. GitHub pushed_at was 6 days before 2026-10-15.
  • Releases in 12 months. 6 points. 7 tagged releases in the last 12 months, from the public releases feed.
  • How fast issues close. Not measured. Median issue-close time is not in the seed snapshot, so this signal is omitted.
Trusted4.7/20
  • OpenSSF Scorecard. 2.8 points. OpenSSF Scorecard 4 out of 10.
  • Open critical or high vulnerabilities. Not measured. Open vulnerability counts were not fetched. We do not assume zero.
  • Contributors in 90 days. Not measured. 90-day contributor counts were not fetched.
  • Bus factor. Not measured. Contributor share was not fetched.
  • Stars. 1.9 points. 10,185 stars, log-scaled and capped at 20,000.
Takeoverable7.7/25
  • Licence. 2 points. Licence class source available.
  • Stack. 3.8 points. PHP. TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Go, PHP, and Vue score as widely hireable.
  • Tests and CI. 1.9 points. A CI workflow file was found. A test suite was not separately confirmed, so this signal scores half.
  • Docs quality. Not measured. Docs quality is an LLM rubric. v1 does not invent that score.
  • Data export. Not measured. Data-export was not audited app by app, so it is omitted.
Easy to run5/20
  • One-click deploy. Not measured. No one-click host was verified for this app, so the signal is omitted rather than scored as a failure.
  • Managed cloud or done-for-you. 5 points. SeatLess offers done-for-you setup. A vendor cloud, where listed, is the vendor’s own hosting, not a licence you own.
  • Docker Compose. Not measured. No Dockerfile or Compose file at the usual paths. It may still exist elsewhere, so this is omitted.
  • Memory needs. Not measured. Memory needs were not measured.
  • Setup steps. Not measured. Setup-step rubric was not run.
Feature fit13.1/15
  • Coverage of the incumbent’s main jobs. 13.1 points. Editorial reading of public docs. Not a certified feature audit. Unknown jobs are left out of the average.

What it replaces

Akaunting does invoices and basic books. The licence is BUSL. The additional use grant we read bars production use above two users, one company, or one thousand invoices, and it bars removing the branding to resell it. That is not “free for the whole team.” Caution.

Replaces FreshBooksReplaces Zoho Invoice

Feature coverage vs FreshBooks

Editorial, from public descriptions. A dash means we did not assess that job. This is not a lab test, and FreshBooks has not reviewed it.

JobAkaunting
Invoices✓
Clients✓
Expenses✓
Online payments◐

Licence, in plain language

BUSL-1.1 Source-available

You can read the code, and you can often self-host it, but this is not an OSI open-source licence. Hosting it for other companies, or removing licence limits, may be forbidden. Read the file before you depend on it.

Business Source License. The additional use grant limits production use to two users, one company, and one thousand invoices, and blocks white-labelling.

Repository health

Stars10,185
Forks3,001
Open issues7
Last push2026-10-08
Last tagged release2026-09-17
Releases in 12 months7
OpenSSF Scorecard4
LanguagePHP
ArchivedNo

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