Frappe Books

Free Desktop book-keeping software for small-businesses and freelancers.

Download

Download the latest release for your platform from the releases page.

Frappe Books is built on FrappeJS, Vue.js and Electron. It is offline by default, and uses a local SQLite file as the database.

Install build essentials

Ubuntu

apt-get install build-essential python git
apt-get install libgconf-2-4

MacOS

xcode-select --install

You will also need Xcode App from App Store

Install Node.js (version 12.6.0)

Tip: The best way to install and manage Node is to install nvm

Install yarn package manager.

npm install -g yarn

Clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/frappe/books.git

cd books

# Install dependencies
yarn

# Start the electron app
yarn electron:serve