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Notes on keeping books.

Honest comparisons against the products you are probably also considering, with the sources shown and the parts they do better said out loud. Written by the person building myClerkBook.

Kevin Miiso Novo

Founder & CEO, myClerkBook

myClerkBook vs Rocket Money
Rocket Money finds your subscriptions, cancels them for you and negotiates your bills. We never touch a bank, so there is no feed to find anything in.
10 October 20264 min read
myClerkBook vs Quicken Simplifi
Simplifi is the cheapest of the mainstream money apps, and its feed of linked banks does most of the work. We cost a little more and never ask for a bank login.
9 October 20264 min read
myClerkBook vs Monarch Money
Monarch is the best-executed answer to the question Mint left behind. We are answering a different question, and the difference starts at the login screen.
28 August 20265 min read
myClerkBook vs YNAB
YNAB is a method that ships with software. myClerkBook is a record that does not tell you how to live. Both are defensible; only one of them is what you are looking for.
28 August 20265 min read
myClerkBook vs Copilot Money
Copilot is the most beautifully made app in this category. Beauty is not the axis we are competing on, and there are two harder questions underneath it.
28 August 20265 min read
myClerkBook vs Wave
Wave has a free tier and we do not. That is the honest headline, and it is also where the comparison starts rather than ends.
28 August 20264 min read
myClerkBook vs QuickBooks Solopreneur
Intuit built a product for one-person businesses, four years after buying and closing the last product those people loved. That history is relevant, and so is the pricing.
28 August 20265 min read

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Notes on keeping books.

myClerkBook vs Rocket Money

myClerkBook vs Quicken Simplifi

myClerkBook vs Monarch Money

myClerkBook vs YNAB

myClerkBook vs Copilot Money

myClerkBook vs Wave

myClerkBook vs QuickBooks Solopreneur

Your books, kept privately.