Accounting tools cover a wide range of needs, from full ERP systems to double-entry bookkeeping, invoicing, payroll, personal finance, and CFO workflow automation. This section uses the supplied ToolVitals dataset for May 2026, which combines health, shipping activity, GitHub stars, ToolVitals score, and status for 27 open-source accounting-related projects.
The ranking is ordered by ToolVitals score first, with GitHub stars used only as a secondary tie-breaker. That puts currently strong project signals ahead of raw popularity, while still giving more widely watched projects the edge when scores are equal.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ERPNext | 95 | 100 | 33741 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | LedgerSMB | 89 | 100 | 535 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | OpenConstructionERP | 89 | 100 | 209 | 94 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Facturascripts | 89 | 100 | 467 | 90 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 5 | Bigcapital | 84 | 91 | 3641 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 6 | Montte NX | 81 | 88 | 5 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 7 | OpenFactu | 81 | 88 | 1 | 84 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 8 | WP ERP | 82 | 72 | 691 | 78 | 🟢 Good |
| 9 | App Finance | 71 | 88 | 120 | 78 | 🟢 Good |
| 10 | Dolibarr | 88 | 62 | 7194 | 76 | 🟢 Good |
| 11 | hledger | 88 | 62 | 4487 | 76 | 🟢 Good |
| 12 | Balaka | 74 | 78 | 31 | 76 | 🟢 Good |
| 13 | Aureus ERP | 74 | 62 | 10527 | 69 | 🟢 Good |
| 14 | bgerp | 74 | 53 | 60 | 65 | 🟢 Good |
| 15 | ezbookkeeping | 78 | 47 | 4838 | 64 | 🟢 Good |
| 16 | OpenPapyrus | 60 | 47 | 280 | 54 | 🟡 Fair |
| 17 | TaxHacker | 65 | 30 | 5604 | 49 | 🟡 Fair |
| 18 | Rever | 55 | 30 | 513 | 44 | 🟡 Fair |
| 19 | Akaunting | 73 | 0 | 9795 | 40 | 🟡 Fair |
| 20 | NotrinosERP | 70 | 0 | 144 | 38 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 21 | ERP SaaS | 36 | 38 | 1427 | 37 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 22 | WebERP | 67 | 0 | 88 | 37 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 23 | Dubbl | 65 | 0 | 11 | 36 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 24 | Mora | 61 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 25 | Finmars | 55 | 0 | 49 | 30 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 26 | CFO Stack | 45 | 0 | 36 | 25 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 27 | Scipio ERP | 33 | 0 | 366 | 18 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
ERPNext ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 94, a health score of 95, and a shipping score of 100. It also has the largest GitHub footprint in this dataset at 33,741 stars, which makes it the strongest overall entry by both project vitality and popularity among the top-scoring tools.
LedgerSMB also scores 94 on ToolVitals, with a health score of 89 and a shipping score of 100. Its GitHub star count is much smaller than ERPNext at 535, but the score profile points to a project that is shipping consistently and remains healthy for double-entry accounting and web-based ERP use.
OpenConstructionERP is the third tool with a ToolVitals score of 94, matching LedgerSMB on health score and shipping score with 89 and 100 respectively. Its narrower construction estimation and ERP focus, plus 209 GitHub stars, makes it less broadly popular but still one of the strongest projects in the May 2026 ranking.
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