LedgerCaddy
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Bookkeeping
for people who are
not bookkeepers.

LedgerCaddy turns income and expenses into reconciled books and professional reports. No accounting degree, no subscription, no cloud. Always organized. Any report is one click away.

Free 14-day trial. No credit card, no account, nothing to cancel.

LedgerCaddy on a MacBook, showing the Home workspace with account balances, recent transactions and quick actions

Great Records

Accurate and organized.

Professional Reports

Clear, customizable and ready to share.

Straightforward

Without accounting complexity.

Private

Your financial data stays local.

1

The spreadsheet that grew

Tabs for every month, formulas nobody trusts, and a year-end scramble to make it add up.

2

Software built for someone else

Payroll, inventory, multi-entity consolidation, and a monthly bill, when all you needed was clean books.

3

The cloud you didn't ask for

Your finances on someone else's server, behind a login, at a price that goes up every year.

How it works

Four habits. That's the whole system.

1Record

  • Enter income and expenses.
  • Add payees and categories.
  • Apply tax and gratuities as needed.
  • Your records stay organized.

2Organize

  • Keep accounts in order.
  • Organize with categories.
  • Remember your payees.
  • Find what you need quickly.

3Review

  • Review your transactions.
  • Check account balances.
  • Correct anything needed.
  • Reconcile with confidence.

4Report

  • Create professional reports.
  • Customize what you need.
  • Review or share results.
  • Print, PDF or export to CSV.
The approach

Just enough structure. Not too much.

Three things make books make sense: accounts (where the money sits), categories (what it was for) and payees (who you paid, or who paid you). LedgerCaddy gives you those, then gets out of the way. Record what happened, tick it off against your bank statement, and the reports are simply there.

No accounting degree required. A built-in guide walks every screen, and the Sample Book lets you try everything before you touch your own numbers.

The New Expense entry form: type, date, payee, account, category, amount with tax, memo and attachments
Recording an expense. Payee remembered, tax worked out, receipt attached.
Reports

Professional reports
for you and your accountant.

These are real pages from the Sample Book, exactly as LedgerCaddy prints them. Every report also exports to PDF and CSV.

Profit & Loss report page
Profit & Loss. The one your accountant asks for first.
Category Summary report page
Category Summary. Where the money went, ranked.
The Period Pack, a multi-page PDF of year-end reports
Year-end, in one click

The Period Pack

One button assembles the reports your accountant asks for into a single PDF: the Profit & Loss, Account Balances, the Tax Summary and the full Transaction Listing, all for the same period, all from the same books.

Send one file. Keep a copy. Done.

Filter any report by date, account, category, payee or status. Sort by any column. Pin the ones you run every month.

Profit & LossExpense SummaryIncome SummaryCategory SummaryPayee SummaryAccount BalancesTransaction ListingReconciliation HistoryTax Summary★ Period Pack
What you get

What good bookkeeping looks like.

Is it for you?

Honest fit, both ways.

LedgerCaddy is for you if…

  • You run a small business, rental property, club, nonprofit or freelance practice
  • You want great records and professional reports without enterprise features
  • You would rather own your software than rent it
  • You want your books on your Mac, not in someone's cloud
  • You are moving on from a spreadsheet

It is not for you if…

  • You need payroll, inventory or invoicing built in
  • You need several people editing the same books at once from different places
  • You need multi-entity consolidation or audit-grade controls
  • You want your bank to feed transactions automatically
Pricing

Buy it once. Own it forever.

No subscription. No tiers. Try it, buy it, and keep updates coming only if you want them.

Step 1

Try it free

14 days with every feature. No credit card, nothing to cancel.

Free for 14 days
  • Full app, real books, real reports
  • Your data stays if you decide to buy

Download free trial

Step 2

Buy it once

Pay once and own LedgerCaddy. Use it for as long as you like.

$50 USD, one-time
  • Yours forever, no subscription
  • All updates included for 12 months
  • Every feature. No add-ons
  • Use it on up to two of your Macs

Buy now, $50

Optional

Keep updates coming

After your first year, renew to keep getting new releases.

$20 USD per year
  • New features and releases after year one
  • Skip it and the app keeps working, forever
  • Rejoin any time

You renew from inside the app. Nothing to set up now.

✓  Prices in US dollars. Everything runs locally on your Mac. No cloud required, ever.

About

About LedgerCaddy

LedgerCaddy was developed to provide a straightforward approach to bookkeeping: keep accurate, well-organized records and produce professional reports without the complexity of traditional accounting software.

It is designed around the needs of small businesses and individuals who want capable bookkeeping tools without unnecessary features. LedgerCaddy keeps each set of books in a single file on the user’s Mac, using the standard SQLite format, so financial records remain local, accessible, and under the user’s control.

LedgerCaddy reflects a simple philosophy: great records, professional reports, and bookkeeping that is easy to use.

Questions

Things people ask.

Is it really not a subscription?

Really. $50 USD buys LedgerCaddy outright with 12 months of updates. After that, $20 USD a year is optional. Skip it and the version you have keeps working forever.

Where is my data?

In one file on your Mac, wherever you choose to keep it. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account. Back it up like any other document; LedgerCaddy also keeps automatic backups.

Can I bring in my existing records?

Yes. Import a CSV export from your spreadsheet or bank, and LedgerCaddy walks you through matching accounts and categories.

Will my accountant be happy?

That is the point. The Period Pack assembles the year-end reports accountants ask for into one PDF, and every report also exports to CSV.

Which Macs does it run on?

Apple silicon and Intel, macOS 11 or later. It is a native Mac app, not a web page in a window.

More answers, system requirements and how the licence works are on the Support page.

Ready?

Great records, from day one.

14 days free, every feature, no credit card.