Accounting App vs Zoho Invoice Maker App
Accounting App is better for comprehensive accounting needs, especially for those already using its desktop version, while Zoho Invoice Maker App excels for simple, free invoicing.
Accounting App (Zoho Books) offers robust accounting features, including expense tracking, reconciliation, and reporting, but its mobile app has significant feature parity issues compared to the desktop version. Zoho Invoice Maker App is praised for its ease of use in creating and sending invoices, particularly for small businesses, but struggles with customization, reliability, and customer support.
Head to head
Evidence note: Both apps have a mix of positive and negative reviews, with recent negative reviews often highlighting issues with reliability and support. The free vs. paid asymmetry is present, with some negative reviews for both apps stemming from limitations in their free tiers.
Frequently asked
Is Accounting App (Zoho Books) good for small businesses?
Does Zoho Invoice Maker App offer good customization for invoices?
Are there issues with bank feeds in Accounting App (Zoho Books)?
What reviewers actually said
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- [R3] Accounting App Charts: I would love to see more charts for the reports as well even online on the website as well and it would be nice if you could customize the colors of them instead of blue and orange red green maybe even a yellow for pending on the payments etc green not overdue or paid red overdue on both and yellow payment pending awaiting release would be nice on both the app and web on the main charges
- [R4] Accounting App Not enough functionality and data: The app should automatically download data from desktop version and update but it does not. I have almost 100 projects on desktop but app only shows one
- [R6] Accounting App No PDF scanning: No pdf scanning. Only pictures can be uploaded. The response from the developer doesn’t state how to upload scans as a pdf. They only upload as a jpeg.
- [R7] Accounting App App functions are limited.: The desktop version is pretty good. The app is reallly bad. I can’t manually categorize a lot of transactions. It doesn’t automatically learn rules. You have to teach it each one. There is no rule function in the app and it often hangs up after correctly idetifying that some transactions match a rule. But it won’t let you actually save the transaction.
- [R2] Accounting App Amazing app: Highly recommended this app makes life easier
- [R5] Accounting App Very Convenient: I love it
- [R8] Accounting App Simple and Complete: Love the simplicity while still having everything you need. Way better than QB. No app errors to date. Would recommend trying
- [R1] Accounting App DO NOT RECOMMEND: I was a paid member. Transaction from my bank stopped coming in for two months. They couldn’t figure out how to fix it and would not offer a compliment month to offset my expense because it has to be pre paid. Consumer service can fix issues, they tell you they will email you back and it can take weeks.
- [R22] Accounting App Bugs with refresh: It is not as easy to use as marketed
- [R48] Accounting App Doesn't show my account info: I'm logged into my company account but it looks like a new account with no customers or invoices.
- [R17] Accounting App Great Small Biz Fit: Zoho Books has been a great fit for my business because it offers strong accounting tools in a system that is clean, organized, and easy to use. It makes it much simpler to track expenses, manage invoices, and keep records straight without feeling overly complicated, and it gives me the features I need without the higher cost of some other bookkeeping platforms.
- [R20] Accounting App Price: Good service at an affordable rate
- [R25] Accounting App Can't import bank transactions in free version.: When I try to import bank transactions in the free version, it says bank feeds are disabled. I'm a solopreneur and this is essential. Looks like this app isn't for me.
- [R39] Accounting App Snappy and affordable: Zoho is way under rated. It is snappy and fully featured. The only improvement I would love to see is a documents section that allows me to upload a batch of receipts and have Zoho automatically link them to transactions, just like Digits does.
- [R10] Accounting App Poor support: Support for the product is poor - the turn around on email support is just crazy.
- [R12] Accounting App Terrible: Not really that good. The people don’t get you answers quick enough if you are running a business you never know if you can get in touch with someone. Really not good enough
- [R31] Accounting App Ok software with abysmal support: Started using this software for my business about 4 months ago. Setup experience was mixed, but generally went ok. When I had a question, a request to support took about 3 days for a response, an additional week for a meaningful response and sometimes they were able to resolve my needs. When the connection to my bank accounts stopped working, all they could recomm
- [R32] Accounting App Excellent: Finally an accounting program that hits the sweet spot for small business. It has everything you need and nothing you don’t.
- [R51] Accounting App Just what you need for small business invoicing: I ran a business for 25 years using expensive, complicated accounting software. Now in retirement and running a small side gig, I don’t wanna spend a lot of money or have complicated software. This does everything I need and more but very easy to use. And the price is perfect.
- [R57] Accounting App Just what I need: It was a drama to manage my small handyman business, it’s a part time job I had no need for bigger and expensive programs. We use Zoho for everything and it is just what we need
- [R66] Zoho Invoice Maker App Would recommend however: Love the app, but even on the paid version. Doesn’t seem to remove their branding in the footer. Maybe just a glitch my end but nonetheless. Also the customisation of the invoice and estimates could do with being much more in depth as it’s quite limited on what you can do.
- [R73] Zoho Invoice Maker App WAS GREAT BUT NOW IS BAD: CAN’T CUSTOMIZE TEMPLATES. STAY AWAY FROM
- [R88] Zoho Invoice Maker App Need small improvements: Good app just need a few improvements scan receipts and automatic add them to categories for expenses…and more costomization for invoices
- [R101] Zoho Invoice Maker App Bad for Customisation, Customer Service and Multi-Currency!!: I was really happy using this at first for my uk only invoices. But when I went use it for a client’s international business it became very complicated to customise to multi currency. We didn’t want ‘payment options’ link on the template as well but couldn’t find a way to remove it. I contacted customer services by email and got no repl
- [R56] Accounting App Constant problems with bank feeds: Since January 2022, bank feeds have been messed up. Very long wait time for response and unable to fix. Blames third party for problems. Insult to injury they took their annual subscription the day of first bank feed errors.
- [R70] Zoho Invoice Maker App NOT FREE: Charged me even though said it was free
- [R74] Zoho Invoice Maker App Great Tool: I have been using this app for the last 5 or so months and have been loving it. I have Jobber but I am a solo operator and jobber right now is just out of my price point right now. I saw this app come up and thought I would try it. I was PLEASANTLY Surprised. It has just almost much features as jober and you don’t have to pay the 45 plus a month subscription for it. The only downside I
- [R78] Zoho Invoice Maker App Great for small businesses: I love this app, super easy to use and the other applications let’s you build out from it and I plan in the future to expand into Zoho books. The fact that this is free is clutch and it really makes it worth it to use the next level as business grows. Great job Zoho!
- [R80] Zoho Invoice Maker App Unbelievably FREE: The best I have used so far, thank you ZOHO!
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store