Comparison

Freelance bookkeeping vs Keeping

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

Head to head
About

Freelance bookkeeping

This app helps freelancers manage their administrative tasks, including tracking working hours, expenses, and creating invoices. It offers detailed overviews for tax purposes and seamless data synchronization across devices.

Highlights
  • Record working hours and expenses
  • Create clients and projects
  • Photograph and store invoices
  • Generate professional invoices
  • Track payment status
  • Export reports to PDF/CSV/DOC
  • Timer/stopwatch for precise time tracking
Features
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Freelance Bookkeeping - Your Streamlined Solution for Efficient Administration! * Seamless Administration * Introducing the first app designed exclusively for freelancers, making it a breeze to record working hours and expenses. Easily create clients and projects, allowing you to track hours, driving costs, and miscellaneous expenses like lunch or hotel stays. Boost efficiency by setting specific activities with individual hourly rates for swift and accurate entries. Capture a complete overview of your administration and bookkeeping, including the option to photograph and store invoices. With flawless iCloud synchronization, manage your data seamlessly across both iPhone and iPad. * Insightful Overviews * Craft highly detailed summaries and overviews of your entries and expenses based on clients and projects. Ideal for tax purposes and generating invoices! Export these comprehensive reports to PDF, CSV for Excel, .doc for Word, or any other preferred program. * Effortless Invoicing * Generate professional invoices directly within the app, tailored for your clients. Email or print invoices effortlessly, with customizable text and automatically populated details about both your client and your own company, complete with your logo. Keep track of payment status and receive timely alerts for overdue payments. * Timer/Stopwatch * For precise time tracking down to the minute, use our intuitive timer/stopwatch feature. Start when you begin working, pause for interruptions, and stop when you're done. Completing entries is a snap, with hours and minutes conveniently filled in for you when you finish working. * Ideas/suggestions? * We thrive on your feedback! Drop us an email at graafict@gmail.com, and we promise to get back to you with the speed of lightning. Terms of use: https://graafict.nl/termsofuse.html

About

Keeping

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Keeping is suitable for everyone: freelancers, and small and large companies. In addition, the use of Keeping for yourself is completely free! ◼ Time Tracking & Work Hours With this app, you have even easier access to all your time entries. With Keeping for iPhone you always have your timesheet in your pocket. So you can quickly punch in, punch out or adjust an entry. Additionally, you will even receive a friendly reminder when you have forgotten to stop a running timer. ▸ Simply create entries when your work is done, or track while you're working using a timer. ▸ Receive notifications when you have forgotten to clock out. ▸ Track all your hours for a specific project, client or task. ▸ Add notes to describe what you have done. ▸ Track your time in the dark with dark mode turned on. ▸ Availability of lock screen and home screen widget and live activity. ▸ View the hours worked in clear reports in the web application. ◼ Trip logging In addition to your working hours, track kilometers and trips as well. ▸ Trip logging easily from the app. ▸ Simple entry with vehicles you manage yourself. ▸ Trips driven and hours worked can be viewed in the reports the web application. ◼ Fully in-sync You can always use this app together with our web application, they are always directly connected and changes are passed in real-time. So, you can quickly start a timer on mobile and continue to edit the entry on your pc. Our website, Keeping.nl, is even completely suitable for use on your mobile phone. ▸ Track time easily if you have multiple phones (there are apps for multiple platforms). ▸ Browser extensions give extra functionalities on the desktop or laptop. ▸ You can also always view all your timesheets and reports on www.keeping.nl (suitable for desktop, tablet and mobile). ◼ We try to make everything as simple as possible ▸ Logging into the app has never been easier, use a magic login link. ▸ Use Keeping with different organizations and easily switch back and forth. ▸ Go directly to Keeping.nl from the app without an extra log-in step. ▸ Suggestions? Let us know at support@keeping.nl Made by Keeping in the Netherlands

Screenshots

Freelance bookkeeping4 screens
Keeping4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Keeping at none against Freelance bookkeeping's 2. Keeping also leads on iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). Freelance bookkeeping's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 9 months). On price, ads 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. Freelance bookkeeping sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Keeping asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Freelance bookkeeping ships an update every 6 days, Keeping every 9 months. The most recent releases landed on September 13, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Freelance bookkeeping versus Keeping: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFreelance bookkeepingKeeping
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 9 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGraafICTKeeping B.V.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Freelance bookkeeping

Subscriptions2
  • Bookkeeping Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Bookkeeping Pro Yearly$24.991 Year
None

Keeping

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Freelance bookkeeping free?
Freelance bookkeeping is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keeping free?
Keeping is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Freelance bookkeeping or Keeping have ads?
Neither Freelance bookkeeping nor Keeping shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Freelance bookkeeping or Keeping?
Freelance bookkeeping ships an update every 6 days, and Keeping every 9 months. Most recently, Freelance bookkeeping was updated on September 13, 2026 and Keeping on September 17, 2026.

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