indiAccounting Comes to Windows: Own Your Books, Skip the Subscription

If you run a small business on Windows, there’s a good chance you run it on QuickBooks — and an even better chance you weren’t thrilled about the bill this year. Intuit’s May increase was the largest in QuickBooks Online’s history, and it landed hardest on exactly the people least able to shrug it off: the small shops, freelancers, and contractors doing their own books.

We’ve been building an alternative, and as of today it runs on your desktop: indiAccounting is now available for Windows 10 and 11.

indiAccounting started on Linux, but the idea behind it was never platform-specific — it’s a reaction to what accounting software has become. Somewhere along the way, the industry decided your own financial records should be a subscription you rent for life. You enter the data, they keep a copy on their servers, and you pay every month for the privilege of opening your own books. indiAccounting is the opposite of that. And now it’s the opposite of that on Windows.

Now on Windows — signed and ready

The Windows version is the same complete application as the Linux release: the same Rust core, the same features, now packaged as a native Windows app. Download the installer, run it, and you’re working. It’s code-signed by Indomitus Group LLC, so Windows can verify it actually came from us — and everything runs on your machine, with no account to create and no internet connection required for day-to-day bookkeeping.

Buy it once. Own it forever.

indiAccounting is a one-time purchase: $249 for full double-entry accounting, with the optional indiPayroll add-on at $299 — so complete accounting and payroll comes to $548, once. No monthly fee. No per-employee charges.

For comparison, QuickBooks Online Plus with payroll now runs a small business around $2,500 a year, every year, and climbing. indiAccounting pays for itself in under three months and costs nothing after that. The only optional recurring cost is $99/year for payroll tax-table updates — and if you skip it, the software keeps working; only the tax rates freeze in place. You’re never paying to keep using what you already bought.

And “own it” means what it says: your records, reports, W-2s, and tax summaries stay yours whether or not you ever pay another cent. No lapsed subscription can lock you out of work you’ve already done.

Run two businesses? Buy the software once.

Here’s one that particularly annoys me. If you run more than one business — a contractor with a side operation, an owner with two LLCs, a bookkeeper handling a handful of small clients — QuickBooks Online wants a separate paid subscription for every single company file. That’s Intuit’s own documented policy. Two businesses, two subscriptions. Three, three. Forever.

indiAccounting includes full multi-company support, and one license covers all of them. Unlimited companies, each with completely isolated books — separate ledgers, customers, vendors, payroll, the works. Switch between them from the sidebar. Manage them all from one settings panel. No upsell, no enterprise tier, no per-company anything.

If you run two businesses, you shouldn’t have to buy your accounting software twice.

Your books stay on your PC

This is the part we care about most. indiAccounting is local-first — your data lives on your computer, not on our servers. No account, no telemetry, no tracking, and it works fully offline. For sensitive fields like Social Security and bank account numbers, there’s optional full-database encryption (AES-GCM), an app-level PIN lock, and integrity-verified local backups.

The design goal was simple: trusting me shouldn’t be a requirement. Privacy policies can change. Architecture doesn’t.

Everything a small business runs on

Windows users get the whole product, not a stripped-down port: double-entry bookkeeping with a full chart of accounts and audit trail; unlimited companies with fully separate books; invoicing, estimates, and recurring billing; accounts receivable and payable with purchase orders and reminders; bank and credit-card reconciliation via CSV, QFX, and OFX, or a direct connection through SimpleFIN; inventory, time, mileage, and project tracking; receipt capture with OCR; sales tax handling; multi-currency; and a full suite of financial reports.

indiPayroll handles federal withholding following IRS Publication 15-T, plus FICA, FUTA, SUTA, and tax calculation for all 50 states and DC — generating W-2s, quarterly 941s, annual 940s, and 1099-NEC forms, and posting every pay run to the general ledger automatically. It also covers the things that usually mean buying yet another product: retirement plans, pre-tax benefits, multi-state employees, S-Corp owner health insurance, and certified payroll with prevailing-wage reporting for government contractors.

Coming from QuickBooks? Switching is built in.

Most of you reading this are on QuickBooks right now, so this matters: indiAccounting ships with importers for QuickBooks, FreshBooks, Wave, Sage, and Zoho Books. Your customers, vendors, items, accounts, invoices, and bills come across — with duplicate detection — so leaving your old software doesn’t mean starting from a blank page.

Get it today

You can download indiAccounting for Windows 10 and 11 right now at indomitusgroup.com. There’s a 30-day free trial with full features, no credit card required to start. It’s also available for Linux — on Flathub, or as an AppImage, DEB, or RPM.

This is the same principle behind indiPDF, our one-time-purchase PDF editor: software you buy should be software you own. indiAccounting is a growing part of indiSuite, built for people who’d rather own their software — and their books — than rent them.

If that’s you, welcome. Your books are yours again — now on Windows, too.