Last checked November 9, 2026
Crater
Crater's open-source app creates invoices and records expenses. Time tracking is still unchecked on the README roadmap. On 9 November 2026, craterapp.com describes an embedded AR/AP product. The invoice app's code is the GitHub project. An issue opened in August 2023 says development has stopped.
Open source means you can use, change, and share the code.
The repository license is AGPL-3.0. The Open Source Initiative decides which licenses count as open source. craterapp.com is not this invoice app.
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Free plan
The AGPL invoice app is free to run yourself. No hosted price for this repository was on the GitHub page checked 9 November 2026.
They host it
No hosted price on file.
Run it yourself
You put the app on a computer you control. Setup: medium. A Laravel and Vue app. The README still lists time tracking as unfinished. Issue 1265, opened in August 2023, says the project is no longer in active development.
Who it is for
For individuals and small teams. It runs on the web and a computer you control. License: AGPL-3.0. It is in the Money group.
What you pay
Free plan: The AGPL invoice app is free to run yourself. No hosted price for this repository was on the GitHub page checked 9 November 2026. There is no hosted price on file. Run it yourself: Setup: medium. A Laravel and Vue app. The README still lists time tracking as unfinished. Issue 1265, opened in August 2023, says the project is no longer in active development.
How to switch
Compared with Harvest. Its price on file: Teams starts at $9 per seat a month, billed yearly ($108 per seat a year), or $11 billed monthly. Enterprise starts at $14, or $17.50 billed monthly. One customer reported $133.98 a month.
What you give up: a timer and a timesheet and export time to a spreadsheet. You only get part of: clients, projects, and tasks.
How close is it?
A full score means it matches our checklist. It is not a drop-in replacement.
Related alternatives
- Free alternatives to Harvest
- Free alternatives to QuickBooks
- Free alternatives to Xero
- Free alternatives to YNAB
- KMyMoney: A KDE personal-finance ledger.
- Odoo Community: The LGPL community apps, not the enterprise modules.
Free apps in this group
- Actual Budget: Envelope budgeting on a file you own.
- Akaunting: Accounting under the Business Source License.
- Dolibarr: ERP and invoicing for a small company.
- ERPNext: Accounting, inventory, and CRM on Frappe.
- Firefly III: A money book you run yourself.
- GnuCash: Desktop double-entry bookkeeping.
- HomeBank: A desktop personal-finance app.
- Invoice Ninja: Invoicing under the Elastic License.
- Kimai: Open-source timesheets, with invoices from hours.
- KMyMoney: A KDE personal-finance ledger.
- Odoo Community: The LGPL community apps, not the enterprise modules.
- solidtime: Open-source time tracking. Invoicing is a paid plan.
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