Comparison

QuickBooks Desktop vs ButlerBldr

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

Head to head
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.

About

ButlerBldr

Manage jobs, create professional quotes and invoices, and get paid faster. This app is designed for solo contractors to organize their business, track payments, and send branded documents to clients. It offers offline functionality and integrates with your contacts and calendar.

Highlights
  • Create professional quotes and invoices
  • Track payments and get paid faster
  • Offline job management
  • Attach photos to jobs
  • Time tracking
  • Client contact import
  • Export invoices for QuickBooks
Features
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ButlerBldr is the job management app built for solo contractors — electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians, carpenters, and independent contractors of every trade. QUOTE IN MINUTES Build professional quotes with labor, materials, and flat fees. Send a PDF link by text or email — your client taps it and sees a real document, not a number in a message. GET PAID FASTER Convert an approved quote to invoice in one tap. Zero re-entry. Track what you're owed on your home screen. With Pro, add a pay link to an invoice so your customer can pay by card — the money goes straight to your own Stripe account, and the payment shows up on the invoice. BUILT FOR THE JOB SITE Works offline. Take before and after photos attached to every job. Time tracking starts and stops with one tap. Import clients directly from your contacts. Address autocomplete — no more typing full addresses on a cracked screen. YOUR BUSINESS, ORGANIZED Every job, quote, invoice, and client in one place. Give a job a date, a start time, and an end date for work that runs several days — weekends in or out. Recurring jobs with frequency tracking. Your signature on every PDF. Reminders for unsent quotes and invoices. Export your invoices as a file that QuickBooks® Online can import. LOOKS PROFESSIONAL The PDF your clients receive has your business name, logo, and signature. Branded line items, clean totals, and a deposit box that makes it clear what they owe. Not a receipt — a professional document. FREE TO START, NO TRIAL Time tracking, job photos, job dates and multi-day jobs, recurring jobs, signatures, address autocomplete, contact import, reminders, and the export for QuickBooks are all included at no cost — no trial, no unlock. The free tier limits how many documents you create: 5 active jobs, 3 quotes per month, and 3 invoices per month. No credit card required. PRO Pro lifts those limits: unlimited active jobs, unlimited quotes, and unlimited invoices. It removes the small "Created with ButlerBldr" line from the footer of your PDFs. It adds card payments: a pay link and a QR code on your invoices. ButlerBldr takes no cut — you pay Stripe's standard processing fee. And it adds the scheduling extras: a Schedule view of your jobs by day and by month, automatic sync to your calendar, and reminders for tomorrow's jobs, recurring work due to be rebooked, and leads with no date. Current pricing is shown on the upgrade screen in the app, and in the In-App Purchases section of this page. Cancel anytime through your iPhone's App Store subscription settings. PRIVACY FIRST Your jobs, clients, and photos stay in your own iCloud account. When you share a quote or invoice by text, that PDF is uploaded to our server so your customer can open the link — and it is deleted after 12 months. Sharing by email attaches the PDF directly and uploads nothing. If you turn on card payments, the invoice number and amount are shared with Stripe so your customer can pay; their card details go to Stripe, never to us. No analytics. No ads. No data sold. Ever. — ButlerBldr Pro subscription - Pro Monthly — billed monthly - Pro Annual — billed annually Pro unlocks unlimited jobs, quotes, and invoices, removes the ButlerBldr footer from your PDFs, and adds card payments and the scheduling extras. ButlerBldr is free to use with limits of 5 active jobs, 3 quotes per month, and 3 invoices per month. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Your subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase. QuickBooks is a registered trademark of Intuit Inc. ButlerBldr is not affiliated with or endorsed by Intuit. Privacy Policy: https://butlerbldr.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

QuickBooks Desktop4 screens
ButlerBldr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: ButlerBldr at 100% against QuickBooks Desktop's 5%. ButlerBldr also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). QuickBooks Desktop's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (120 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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. ButlerBldr sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. QuickBooks Desktop asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

ButlerBldr holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: QuickBooks Desktop has 120 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 5% of QuickBooks Desktop's written reviews are positive against 100% of ButlerBldr's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

QuickBooks Desktop ships an update every 6 weeks, ButlerBldr every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
QuickBooks Desktop versus ButlerBldr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickBooks DesktopButlerBldr
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (120 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews4.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIntuit Inc.B&N Holdings LLC

Customer experience

QuickBooks Desktop

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

ButlerBldr

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

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

ButlerBldr

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

QuickBooks Desktop

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

ButlerBldr

Subscriptions2
  • ButlerBldr Pro Monthly$12.991 Month
  • ButlerBldr Pro Annual$119.991 Year

Questions

Is QuickBooks Desktop free?
QuickBooks Desktop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ButlerBldr free?
ButlerBldr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, QuickBooks Desktop or ButlerBldr?
ButlerBldr is rated higher. QuickBooks Desktop averages 1.9 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while ButlerBldr averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do QuickBooks Desktop or ButlerBldr have ads?
Neither QuickBooks Desktop nor ButlerBldr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, QuickBooks Desktop or ButlerBldr?
QuickBooks Desktop ships an update every 6 weeks, and ButlerBldr every 5 days. Most recently, QuickBooks Desktop was updated on October 28, 2026 and ButlerBldr on October 25, 2026.

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