What is the best Billdu alternative?
It depends on why you are leaving. Apps like Billdu fall into two groups, those that count your clients and those that count your invoices, and the right pick follows which one you can live with. If the client cap is the problem, Zoho Invoice is free with no client limit up to 500 invoices a year, and Square Invoices and PayPal Invoicing have no caps of any kind. If you want a phone-first app with your own branding and a one-time price, Billgami is our pick and it is ours, disclosed. If you are a contractor who needs contracts and change orders, Joist. If you are under ten clients and happy, the honest answer is to stay on Billdu.
Does Billdu have a free plan?
No. Billdu offers a 7-day free trial with all features and no card required, and after that every plan is paid, starting at $7.99 a month or $4.99 a month billed annually. Among the alternatives, Zoho Invoice is free for the whole product up to 500 invoices a year, Square and PayPal are free to send with no caps, and Billgami has a free tier capped at 3 invoices in total.
How many clients does Billdu allow?
Ten on the Lite plan, fifty on Standard, and unlimited on Premium. There is no step between ten and fifty, so the eleventh client moves you from $59.88 a year to $119.88 a year on annual billing. That is $60 a year for one client, or $180 over three years. If you expect to pass ten clients, compare Billdu at the Standard price rather than the Lite price its pricing page leads with.
What happens when the Billdu trial ends?
The trial runs seven days with all features and no card required, so nothing is charged automatically at the end of it. When it finishes you choose a paid plan or stop using the app; there is no free tier to fall back to. That is the main practical difference between Billdu and the apps here that keep a permanently free plan, and it is worth knowing before you put a month of invoices into it.
Is Billdu a good app?
Yes, and our own data says so more clearly than for most apps we have measured. As a billdu invoice app user you are in good company: Billdu holds 4.82 out of 5 across 25,672 App Store ratings, and of 708 recent written reviews only 10.2% were negative, the best ratio of any paid invoicing app we have looked at. It has zero complaints about caps, zero about billing, and the lowest price-complaint share of any paid app on our roundup. This page exists to explain one specific cost, not to argue that Billdu is bad.
Why does nobody complain about Billdu's client limit?
Not one of 708 recent reviews complains about it, which is genuinely surprising given it is the tightest structural limit of the three cap types we compared. Our reading is that complaint volume tracks how often a limit announces itself rather than how restrictive it is. A monthly invoice cap nags every month, which is why Invoice Simple draws cap complaints in 31.7% of its recent negatives. An annual cap bites once a year. A client cap bites once, ever, and the person it bites either upgrades quietly or leaves without writing a review. That is an interpretation, not a measurement; the measurements are the caps themselves and the complaint shares.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Billdu?
Cheaper depends on your shape. If you stay under ten clients, no: Billdu Lite at $59.88 a year is the cheapest paid invoicing app in this comparison. If you are past ten clients, several are cheaper than Billdu Standard's $119.88: Bookipi is $9.99 a month unlimited with no client limit, Zoho Invoice is free, and Billgami's one-time $249.99 lifetime beats any of them over three years or more. Square and PayPal cost nothing to send but take a percentage when clients pay by card.
Which apps have no client limit at all?
Zoho Invoice, Square Invoices, PayPal Invoicing, Bookipi, Invoice Simple, Invoice2go, InvoiceFly, Tofu, Joist and Billgami all count something other than your client list, or count nothing. The only two apps here that cap clients are Billdu at ten on its entry tier and Invoice Ninja at five on its hosted free tier, which is tighter still. Invoice Ninja removes the cap entirely if you self-host it.
Can I move my invoices out of Billdu?
Check the export path before you commit rather than when you are cancelling, whichever app you use. An invoice is a business record you may need years after the job, for a tax question or a dispute, so it should never be the thing that keeps you subscribed. On the Billgami side, export of all invoice PDFs, a records CSV and a payments CSV is available on every plan including the free one. Confirm Billdu's current export options in the app before moving.
Billdu vs Invoice Simple: which should I pick?
They cap opposite things, so the answer follows your shape. Billdu counts clients, ten on its entry tier, and does not limit how many invoices you send. Invoice Simple counts invoices, three a month on its entry tier, and does not limit clients. If you invoice a small stable client list often, Billdu is far better value. If you invoice many one-off customers a few times, Invoice Simple's model suits you better, though its cap draws complaints in 31.7% of its recent negatives against Billdu's 0%.
Does Billdu take a cut of my payments?
Yes, if your clients pay through it. Billdu's US card fees run from 3.4% down to 2.9%, and the rate improves as your subscription tier rises, which means the cheapest plan also carries the highest processing rate. Among the alternatives, Square and PayPal also take a percentage, while Zoho Invoice, Invoice Ninja and Billgami do not process payments at all, so nothing sits between you and your client's money.
Is Billgami better than Billdu?
Not across the board, and we are not going to claim it is. Billdu has expenses tracking and team seats, which Billgami does not, and a better-measured user sentiment than almost any app in this category. Billgami's advantages are narrower and specific: no client limit on any paid tier, a separate job address on every client, export on every plan, and a one-time $249.99 lifetime option instead of a subscription that never ends. Our free tier is tighter than Billdu's trial in one sense, since it is 3 invoices in total, though it never expires. Pick on which of those actually applies to you.
Zoho Invoice
Square Invoices
PayPal Invoicing
Billgami
Invoice Simple
Joist
Invoice Ninja
Bookipi
Invoice2go
InvoiceFly
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