QuickBooks Solopreneur is Intuit's answer for freelancers and one-person businesses: income and expense tracking, invoicing, mileage capture by GPS, and estimated tax support, in a lighter package than QuickBooks Online. For a US sole trader filing a Schedule C, it is a coherent product with the largest accounting brand in the world behind it.
It is also worth remembering how this market got here. Intuit bought Mint in 2009 and closed it in March 2024, moving its users toward Credit Karma. A credit monitoring and referral business that does not do what Mint did. A product can be good and still sit inside a company whose incentives are not yours.
Three practical differences
The first is scope. Solopreneur is built for one business, in one country, in one currency, for one tax regime. If you invoice a client in euros, run two ventures, or file anywhere other than the United States, you are outside the shape of the product. myClerkBook stores every amount in the currency it arrived in across 166 of them, runs up to five entirely separate books on one subscription, and takes no position on your tax return.
The second is the bank connection. Solopreneur's automatic categorization of business versus personal spending is built on linking your accounts and cards. That is the feature, and it needs the connection. We have no connection and no aggregator, and the equivalent work is done by reading the documents you already have.
The third is price, and it is not close. Solopreneur is around $20 a month, roughly $120 a year at list. myClerkBook Basic is $5 a month or $50 a year, and Premium, unlimited transactions, five books, 166 currencies, a hundred document parses a day, alerts by email, SMS and WhatsApp, is $10 a month or $100 a year, still below Solopreneur's entry price.
| Dimension | myClerkBook | QuickBooks Solopreneur |
|---|---|---|
| PricemyClerkBook | $5 a month or $50 a year; $10 or $100 for Premium | Around $20 a month, roughly $120 a year |
| Free trialQuickBooks Solopreneur | 7 days of Premium | 30 days |
| Bank connectionmyClerkBook | None, permanently. No aggregator in the stack | Central, business-versus-personal sorting depends on it |
| Number of businessesmyClerkBook | Up to five books on one Premium subscription | One |
| Multiple currenciesmyClerkBook | 166, stored as entered and converted daily on Premium | Oriented to a single currency |
| US tax preparationQuickBooks Solopreneur | Nothing, we file nothing and advise nothing | Estimated quarterly tax, Schedule C oriented |
| Mileage trackingQuickBooks Solopreneur | Not built | Automatic, by GPS, in the mobile app |
| InvoicingQuickBooks Solopreneur | Not built | Included |
| Works outside the USmyClerkBook | Yes, currency-neutral and jurisdiction-neutral by design | Built around US filing |
Where QuickBooks is better
Who each one is for
- Choose QuickBooks Solopreneur if you are a US-based sole trader, you want tax estimation and mileage tracking in the same tool, and you value being inside the ecosystem your accountant already uses.
- Choose myClerkBook if you work across currencies or countries, run more than one venture, want your documents read rather than your bank accounts, or are simply unwilling to pay double for a narrower product.
- 0
- Bank connections
- 166
- Currencies
- 100
- Parses a day
- 5
- Separate books
No login, no aggregator, no read access. Architectural, not a setting.
Stored exactly as entered, converted daily on Premium.
Receipts, invoices and statements read on Premium. Ten a day on Basic.
Each with its own groups, base currency and alerts, on Premium.
One last thing, and it applies to every comparison on this blog. myClerkBook is not trying to be the product with the most features on the page. It is trying to be the one that never asks you for something it should not need. If automatic bank import is the thing you want most, buy the product that does it well and ignore everything above — that is a real preference and it deserves a real answer rather than a sales rebuttal.