Comparison

Square Invoices vs QuickBooks Desktop

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Square Invoices

Create and send professional invoices, estimates, and bills on the go. Accept various payment methods, set up automatic reminders, and track payments in real-time. Streamline your business finances with this all-in-one solution.

Highlights
  • Invoice and estimate creation
  • Multiple payment options
  • Automatic payment reminders
  • Real-time tracking and reporting
  • Recurring billing
  • Contact management
Features
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Square Invoices is a must-have invoicing solution to run your business: invoice and estimate maker, and a secure, fast payment system. It is an essential invoicing solution that efficiently supports any type of business: ► Home & Repair: Contractors, Cleaning, Automotive, Landscaping ► Food & Drink: Catering, Bakery, Food Trucks, Wholesale Stores ► Professional Services: Web Designers, Photographers, Consultants, Accountants, Architects, Interior Designers, Advertising, Real Estate It has everything you need to run your business on the go: estimates, contacts, invoices, payments, automatic reminders and real-time tracking and reporting. It’s all in one app, and there are no monthly fees. Bill customers with a simple invoice app that also makes sending estimates or requesting deposits easy. Access Square Invoices on your iPhone, iPad or desktop. ► INVOICE AND ESTIMATE MAKER Send professional invoices and estimates in three simple steps: just enter your customer’s email, the amount, and hit send. Customise the look and easily attach photos, contracts, or receipts. ► ACCEPT ANY KIND OF PAYMENT Cut collection times from weeks to days by giving your customers more convenient ways to pay—no more stamps or envelopes. Customers can pay online or in person with any major debit or credit card, Apple Pay or Google Pay, cash, check or ACH Payment. ► REACH CUSTOMERS MORE EFFECTIVELY Send invoices wherever your customers prefer—email, URL, text / SMS, manually through any messaging app, or print out a hard copy. Customers can easily pay on their phone or computer from anywhere. ► AUTOMATIC REMINDERS AND TRACKING Stop chasing down payments with automatic payment reminders and transparent tracking that tells you the moment each invoice is viewed and paid. ► FLEXIBLE BILLING Get paid on your schedule by requesting a deposit or setting up recurring invoices for weekly or monthly billing. Customers can also authorize Square to securely save their payment cards on file to be charged automatically. Whether you are sending a quote to confirm your next freelance job, requesting a deposit for a custom order, or billing for your contractor hours, Square Invoices is the all-in-one app for your payment and workflow needs. Download and set up your account in just minutes.

About

QuickBooks Desktop

Streamline expense tracking by capturing receipts and bills directly from your mobile device. Automate entries, attach documents for audit trails, and track business mileage with ease. Designed for existing QuickBooks Desktop users to save time and stay organized.

Highlights
  • Scan receipts and automate expense entries
  • Upload bills and automate bill entries
  • Attach documents to transactions
  • Track business mileage with auto-calculated distance
  • Organize digital audit trails
Features
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Are you a QuickBooks Desktop Pro Plus, Premier Plus or Enterprise customer? Save time with receipt and bill capture to automate entries. No more lost receipts or time consuming expense reports! Easily attach documents to transactions. Scan receipts - Save time by automatically creating categorized receipt expense entries. Just photograph, import and review. - Stay organized by attaching digital receipt images to expense transactions for audit trails. - Accurately categorize, modify or record multiple receipt transactions at once. Upload bills - Save time by automating bill entries. Just photograph, import, and review. - Stay organized by attaching files to bill transactions for simplified audit trails. Attach documents to your transactions - Attach documents to transactions faster by directly uploading them. - Save time by directly attaching multiple documents to transactions at once. - Stay organized by eliminating the need to store physical documents. Track your business mileage - Add your business miles on your mobile and manage it all in QuickBooks Desktop. - Distance will be auto-calculated using starting and ending locations. - QuickBooks automatically fetches the IRS standard mileage rate to calculate mileage expenses.

Screenshots

Square Invoices4 screens
QuickBooks Desktop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Square Invoices at 54% against QuickBooks Desktop's 5%. Square Invoices also leads on rating (4.8 vs 1.9) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Square Invoices holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Square Invoices has 93K ratings behind it against 120, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Square Invoices's written reviews are positive against 5% of QuickBooks Desktop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Square Invoices ships an update weekly, QuickBooks Desktop every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Square Invoices versus QuickBooks Desktop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquare InvoicesQuickBooks Desktop
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (93K ratings) — better1.9 (120 ratings)
Positive reviews54.5% of reviews — better4.9% of reviews
Number of ratings93K — better120
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.116.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size722 MB206 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBlock, Inc.Intuit Inc.

Customer experience

Square Invoices

All ratings93,351 ratings
Positive96.8%
Neutral1.3%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews898 reviews
Positive54.5%
Neutral4.6%
Negative41.0%

QuickBooks Desktop

All ratings119 ratings
Positive17.6%
Neutral6.7%
Negative75.6%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive4.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative90.2%

User reviews

Square Invoices

From 93K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Easy to use
  • 🚀 Convenient for small businesses
  • 🚀 Great for invoicing and payments
  • 🚀 Seamless integration with other Square products
  • 👍 Professional-looking invoices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and unreliable
  • 🔒 Concerns about account deactivation and fund holds
  • 💰 High processing fees
  • 🤔 Lack of customer support and communication
  • 🤔 Limited customization options for invoices

QuickBooks Desktop

From 120 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Amazing mobile application
  • 🚀 Ease and speed of recording transactions
  • 💡 AI and OCR capabilities
  • ✅ Automatically codes entries
  • 🔗 Links to receipts/invoices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 App freezes at logo
  • 🐛 Takes hours for receipts to show
  • 🐛 Doesn't work with desktop version
  • 🐛 Zero help on the road
  • 🐛 Broken after working

Bugs and requests

Square Invoices

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Invoices not updating correctly
  • Issues with connecting card readers
  • Problems with account deactivation and fund holds

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to apply discounts on invoices
  • Improve invoice editing capabilities
  • Implement auto-save feature for estimates
  • Provide option to send invoices via text message
  • Add customer statement generation functionality

QuickBooks Desktop

Reported bugs

45 issues
  • App freezes at logo screen
  • Receipts take hours to show on desktop
  • Doesn't work with desktop version
  • Broken after working
  • Receipt management doesn't work
Show 40 more
  • Transaction creation failed
  • Not flexible to change business name
  • New app not out yet, but discontinued app still charging
  • App won't work with subscription
  • Scanning is a joke, takes too long
  • Seldom works correctly
  • Mimics phone screen, can't link or find company
  • Can't recognize QuickBooks invoice
  • Only allows 1 page documents
  • Mileage app is somewhat pointless
  • Developers focus on logos, not fixes
  • Can only select bank account for credit card receipts
  • Have to scroll through all accounts to find the right one
  • Shows no company
  • Duplicate company names
  • Scan tool stopped working
  • Can't add multiple employees/users per account
  • Doesn't support JPEG upload to bills
  • Doesn't sync with desktop
  • Freezes on upload
  • Companies don't show up
  • App crashes every time
  • Camera recognition is horrible
  • Nightmare to attach receipts
  • No receipts travel to desktop
  • Company shows up many times
  • Deleted companies still show on mobile app
  • No camera access after update
  • Camera doesn't recognize edges of receipts
  • Scan only captures partial receipt
  • Limited functionality, can't update file names or delete receipts
  • Can't login despite being administrator
  • Subscription confusing, keeps asking to pay more
  • Doesn't connect with QuickBooks
  • ID or password invalid
  • Company duplicated with different IDs
  • Hard to attach receipts
  • Have to scroll through expense accounts
  • Semi-functional mileage app
  • Save button is behind the keyboard

Requested features

16 requests
  • See sales orders or purchase orders on sign-on
  • Ability to see documents (sales orders/purchase orders)
  • PDF conversion for scans
  • Ability to type expense account description
  • Get receipt recognition back
Show 11 more
  • Allow PO's to be made from the app
  • Scan directly into QB again
  • Support going straight to bills
  • Fix bug where credit card is not recognized as a card
  • Allow users to hide or delete deleted companies from the mobile app
  • Allow camera and photo access
  • Improve scanning to capture entire receipt
  • Allow switching between companies
  • Allow attaching multiple pages
  • Improve mileage tracking functionality
  • Allow direct upload of receipts to bills

In-app purchases

None

Square Invoices

No in-app purchases

None

QuickBooks Desktop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Square Invoices free?
Square Invoices is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QuickBooks Desktop free?
QuickBooks Desktop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Square Invoices or QuickBooks Desktop?
Square Invoices is rated higher. Square Invoices averages 4.8 out of 5 from 93K ratings, while QuickBooks Desktop averages 1.9 from 120 ratings.
Do Square Invoices or QuickBooks Desktop have ads?
Neither Square Invoices nor QuickBooks Desktop shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Square Invoices or QuickBooks Desktop?
Square Invoices ships an update weekly, and QuickBooks Desktop every 6 weeks. Most recently, Square Invoices was updated on November 4, 2026 and QuickBooks Desktop on November 3, 2026.

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