Expenses caught. Invoices paid.
Photograph a receipt or forward it from your inbox, keep your subscriptions and business driving on record, and send invoices your clients can pay in a tap. Built for self-employed creatives who’d rather be making than managing spreadsheets.
For the self-employed
A calm place for the money that moves through a creative year: the receipts you photograph in a shop, the ones that arrive by email, the subscriptions that bill quietly every month, the driving you did for work, and the invoices you send to get paid. Every part of it is shaped around how creative work actually pays, the uneven months, the gear receipts, the deposits and final payments, because it was built by a creative living the same rhythm. We organize the year; you and a professional file it. Made for photographers, filmmakers, and the rest of us who’d rather be doing the work than the books.
It does a handful of things properly rather than everything at once, and grows a piece at a time from there. Built with creatives in mind, and just as good for self-employed small business owners and gig workers of all kinds.
We’re opening to a first twenty makers. See what it does first, or apply above.
What it does, and how it works
A few things, done properly.
Forward a receipt to your own Ledger address or photograph it, confirm what we catch, send the invoices that pay for it all, and export a clean summary at tax time. Here is each piece, start to finish.
Catch every receipt
Photograph the paper one in the shop, or forward the emailed one from your inbox. We read the merchant, amount and date so you can confirm in a tap. You check our work; nothing is filed behind your back.
The bills that arrive by email
Invoices and receipts land in your email whether you want them there or not. Forward one to your own private Ledger address and it waits in a queue for a yes, alongside the ones you photographed. One place to be through, not two.
Send an invoice, get paid
Fill in the details, issue it under any of your business names, and send a branded link. The payment lands in your own Square or Stripe account, never ours. Sent one already and heard nothing? Send it again, or copy the link and text it.
The subscriptions you forgot about
Rent, insurance, the software billing you quietly every month. List what repeats and you can see it coming, instead of meeting it again on a statement.
Business driving, on the record
Log trips by distance and mark which were for work. We show your business-use share, and in the US, an estimate only, never tax advice.
Package it for your accountant
When it's time, export a tidy, categorized summary for your country. We organize what you spent and what came in; the filing stays between you and a professional.
Where the edge is
What it doesn’t do yet.
The Ledger is not a whole accounting system, and it isn’t trying to become one overnight. It launches doing a handful of things properly and grows a piece at a time. Here is what is on the way, so you know before you sign up rather than after.
Reading your inbox for you
Forwarding works today. Connecting your email account directly, read-only, so receipts arrive without you sending them, is next.
Bringing in your bank
Importing statements and matching them against what you have already recorded is built and waiting on an accountant's review before anyone's real records go near it.
Counting payouts as income
A paid invoice counts itself. Pulling every other payout off Square or Stripe and sorting it into income is a bigger job, and it comes after launch.
Anything that files for you
Not on this list and not on any list. We keep records you and a professional can file. We do not compute tax, and we never hold your money.
A look inside
Today
Yesterday
Awaiting payment
Trips
Where it went
Up 12% from May
Recurring expenses ahead
One-offs expected
Income · Jan–Jun
By quarter
01
Catch every receipt, two easy ways
Photograph the paper one, or forward the emailed one to your own private Ledger address. We read the merchant, amount and date; you just confirm. Connecting your inbox directly, so they arrive on their own, is on the way.
02
Send an invoice, and get paid for it
Send invoices and get paid through your own Square or Stripe; the money lands where it already does, and we only ever see that a payment happened, never the funds. Heard nothing back? Send the same invoice again, or copy its link and text it. You can also request an invoice or receipt from anyone you've paid, so the document comes back to you clean.
03
Track mileage the way your country counts it
Log a trip and your business-use share updates itself. In Canada that's your business-use percentage, never a flat per-kilometre figure we made up; in the US, an estimate at the standard rate.
04
See the whole month at a glance
Money in, money out, and what's still owed: one calm screen. Income green, expenses rust, and the slice you've set aside, the way you'd expect.
05
The subscriptions you forgot about
Rent, insurance, the software billing you quietly every month. List what repeats and it rolls forward into a simple baseline, so the months ahead hold no surprises, just what you already know is due.
06
Be ready for tax time without the dread
Everything sorted into your country's categories, the set-aside totalled, the year packaged for your accountant. We organize; you file.
It speaks your country’s language
Pick your country and the whole ledger settles into it. Your currency and number formatting, the way dates read, the expense categories you’ll actually use at tax time, and the terms on the invoices and receipts you handle all follow where you work, so nothing has to be translated in your head later. And if you work on both sides of the border, you can keep Canadian and US books in the same account, kept separate, never blended. Canada and the US are where we start; more countries are on the way as the project grows.
🇺🇸 In the United States
Drive for work and we’ll keep the miles, then show a running figure at the year’s standard mileage rate so you have a sense of what it’s worth. It’s an estimate to hand your preparer, marked plainly as not tax advice, never a number we file for you.
🇨🇦 In Canada
We track your business kilometres against your total driving and show the business-use share, the percentage your accountant starts from. We don’t apply a flat per-kilometre deduction, because what you can claim depends on your real vehicle costs, and that figure isn’t ours to decide for you.
When the two countries’ rules genuinely differ, we follow each one on its own terms rather than flattening them into a single average. The aim is always the same: clean, honest records you and a professional can file with confidence, not tax advice from an app.
Working in both countries
If you earn and spend on both sides of the border, you can turn on a second jurisdiction and keep Canadian and US records in one account, fully separated, never mixed into a single total. Each entry, invoice, and receipt is tagged to its country, your education notes follow the jurisdiction you’re reading, and at tax time each country comes out as its own self-contained report to hand the right preparer. Most people only need one country, so the option stays out of the way until you switch it on.
More countries are coming
Canada and the US are only the beginning. As the project grows we’re building the Ledger out country by country, and each one gets the same care these two did. Before a country goes live we sit with its particular tax rules: how mileage is treated, which expense categories matter, how its sales tax and self-employment rules work. The ledger then fits the place you actually file in, rather than a generic template. If your country isn’t here yet, keep an eye out: it may be next.
How we handle your data
Privacy isn’t a setting here. It’s the starting point.
We never hold your money
Payments go straight to your own Square or Stripe account. We see that a payment happened, not the funds themselves.
Your email, read once and let go
Forward a receipt to your own private Ledger address and we read it once to pull the details, then discard the message. Connecting your inbox directly, read-only, is coming.
Your records are yours alone
Every account's data is walled off at the row level, so no one ever sees anyone else's books, not even by accident.
No card numbers, no passwords
Card and bank details are held by your payment processor, Stripe or Square, who are built to guard them, including for any recurring payments. We keep only a secure reference, never the full numbers, and we never store passwords. Sensitive connections are stored encrypted.
Built to a high privacy bar from the first line of code. A professional security review will happen before anyone’s real data flows through the system.
Questions, or want it on your phone?
Straight answers about money, taxes, your email, and privacy, plus a quick walkthrough for saving the app to your home screen.
Have a look around.
The whole app is open as a working demo with stand-in figures. Wander through it the way a real month would. Then, if it feels like home, apply to join the first twenty.