There used to be a ton of invoicing apps available before the iPhone came along and all the work was done on the Mac. But once everyone became a “road warrior” with a desktop, laptop and phone, the invoice app landscape all but disappeared in favor of expensive and complicated web-based subscription services.
I myself have been hanging on to an old Mac-based app because it’s simple, does what I want and still runs on the latest version of macOS. But the day is coming when it’s simply not going to run. The developer has switched over to a subscription-based web service that’s relatively expensive for my needs, and I have no plan to continue using it once the stand-alone app stops working on my Mac.
When that does happen, the first replacement I’m going to try is Zoho Invoice. Yes, it’s a web-based service. But it appears to be a very simple one with plenty of flexibility built in. Zoho Invoice offers a macOS and iOS app, time tracking, multiple styles of estimates & invoice templates available and online payments are integrated (though I think they need to offer a larger variety of payment services than they currently do).
Zoho Invoice is a subscription service that costs… well, that depends. If you’re just getting started as a freelancer, you’ll be happy to see that Zoho Invoice has a free tier, with one of the few restrictions to the full service being a limit of five customers. The first pay tier is $9 per month for up to 50 customers, and it goes up from there. Given the list of features the service includes, I think it’s very reasonably priced.
If you’re in the market for a new invoicing app/service, give Zoho a try and let me know how it works out for you. I’m guessing I’m going to have to make the switch to something this year (probably the next OS update).