Wave: Small Business Software

58 of 100 · reviews
4.4of 5 · store
6,584ratings on the App Store
299reviews read

An editorial reading of the saved reviews

Wave used to be the gold standard for free small-business accounting, but after a monetization pivot most features moved behind a paywall. The remaining free tier is too thin for real work. The desktop version is significantly more capable than the mobile app.

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What people use it for

Freelancers and micro-businesses who need integrated bookkeeping and invoicing in one place and are okay working mostly through a browser.

What reviews praise

Invoice and estimate creation works well: professional PDFs, built-in late-payment reminders for clients, and a notification when a client opens an invoice.
Accountants note that the bookkeeping logic is cleaner and more correct than QuickBooks.

What reviews complain about

The mobile app is a stripped-down shell: account balances are unavailable without desktop, and categorizing transactions requires scrolling the entire list from the top after each save.
Bank transaction sync breaks periodically and support goes quiet.

What users experience

1 excerpt from the breakdown. These are individual cases, not a verdict on all users.

My main reason for using this is all is because it would notify you of when clients open your estimates and invoices. Now it has stopped working so not worth it for me anymore