Comparison

QuickBooks Desktop vs CFApps

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

CFApps

This app simplifies field service business management for contractors and painters. It allows for quick job scheduling, customer information storage, employee time tracking, and material cost logging. Generate reports on hours and expenses without complex spreadsheets.

Highlights
  • Job scheduling
  • Customer management
  • Employee time tracking
  • Parts and supplies logging
  • Employee management
  • Built-in reports
Features
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WorkTime — Built for the Field, Designed to Be Simple. Managing your crew shouldn't be complicated. WorkTime gives painting, contracting, and field service businesses everything they need in one clean app. Schedule jobs in seconds — create projects, assign employees, set start times, and track status from Scheduled to Completed to Billed. Manage your customers — store contact info, notes, and job history all in one place. Add new customers and pull them up instantly when creating a project. Time tracking that works — employees clock in and out right from the app. See total hours, active projects, and recent entries at a glance from the Reports tab. Parts & supplies tracking — log materials and costs per job so you always know your project expenses. Employee management — add your team, assign roles, and assign them to jobs with a tap. Reports built in — view hours by employee, hours by project, and recent entries without digging through spreadsheets. Subscription plans included — Full Access gives your team unlimited scheduling, customer management, employee time tracking, reports, and team communication.

Screenshots

QuickBooks Desktop4 screens
CFApps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CFApps at 100% against QuickBooks Desktop's 5%. CFApps also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.9) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). QuickBooks Desktop's advantage is ratings volume (120 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

CFApps 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 4, 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 CFApps's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
QuickBooks Desktop versus CFApps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuickBooks DesktopCFApps
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.9 (120 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews4.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings120 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB189 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperIntuit Inc.Tom Fluit

Customer experience

QuickBooks Desktop

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

CFApps

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 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

CFApps

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

QuickBooks Desktop

No in-app purchases

None

CFApps

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is QuickBooks Desktop free?
QuickBooks Desktop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CFApps free?
CFApps is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, QuickBooks Desktop or CFApps?
CFApps is rated higher. QuickBooks Desktop averages 1.9 out of 5 from 120 ratings, while CFApps averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do QuickBooks Desktop or CFApps have ads?
Neither QuickBooks Desktop nor CFApps shows ads.

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