Accounting tools vary from plain-text ledgers to broader ERP systems, making it difficult to compare maintenance and release activity alongside product scope. ToolVitals data for July 2026 brings those signals together through health, shipping, openness, licensing, popularity, and overall scores.
This ranking includes only open or source-visible tools and orders them by ToolVitals score, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal when needed. Openness and license classifications are preserved as reported rather than treating every visible-source model as open source.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Facturascripts | OSI-approved OSS | LGPL-3.0 | 85 | 98 | 479 | 92 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | hledger | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 86 | 84 | 4576 | 88 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 3 | OpenSTAManager | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 79 | 87 | 145 | 87 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 4 | Balaka | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 63 | 55 | 38 | 68 | 🟢 Good |
| 5 | OpenFactu | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 58 | 52 | 1 | 64 | 🟢 Good |
| 6 | Frappe Books | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 27 | 0 | 4764 | 32 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 7 | openboek | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 22 | 11 | 1 | 32 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 8 | oms-erp | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 31 | 0 | 1901 | 31 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
| 9 | ERP SaaS | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 15 | 4 | 1450 | 29 | 🔴 Needs Attention |
Top 3 Highlights
Facturascripts ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 92, supported by the highest shipping score in the group at 98 and a health score of 85. It is an ERP product built with PHP and Bootstrap, classified as OSI-approved OSS under LGPL-3.0.
hledger ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 88, a health score of 86, and a shipping score of 84. Its plain-text accounting model is available through CLI, TUI, and web interfaces, and it has 4,576 GitHub stars. It is classified as OSI-approved OSS under GPL-3.0.
OpenSTAManager ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 87, a shipping score of 87, and a health score of 79. Its web-based scope covers accounting, electronic invoicing, inventory, customer and supplier records, and sales and purchasing documents for small and medium-sized businesses. It is classified as OSI-approved OSS under GPL-3.0.
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