Invoice Ninja
Invoice Ninja is a source-available, self-hosted app in the Accounting & Invoicing category, licensed Elastic License 2.0 and written mainly in PHP. It is a self-hosted alternative to QuickBooks, Xero and FreshBooks and ships a Docker image. It has 10,323 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 26, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Accounting & Invoicing
- PHP
- Elastic-2.0
- Source-available
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 10,323
- Forks
- 2,767
- Open issues
- 219
- Commits, last 12 months
- 2,259
- Last commit
- Oct 26, 2026
- Latest release
- v5.13.50Oct 21, 2026
- Created
- Nov 26, 2013
- License
- Elastic License 2.0Source-available
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 26, 2026, 2,259 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 26, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 2,259 |
| Latest release | v5.13.50 (Oct 21, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 1,104 |
| Open issues | 219 |
| Open pull requests | 19 |
| Good first issues | 0 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Nov 26, 2013 |
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About Invoice Ninja
Powerful tool to invoice clients online.
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/invoiceninja/invoiceninja.
Topics
- php
- expenses
- javascript
- invoices
- tasks
- laravel
- payments
- time-tracker
- kanban
- invoice
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Is Invoice Ninja free and open source?
Not by the OSI definition. Invoice Ninja is source-available rather than open source: its code is public under the Elastic License 2.0, which is not an OSI-approved open-source license. The Elastic License 2.0 lets you use, modify and self-host the software, but not offer it to others as a hosted or managed service or bypass its license-key features. Check the license in the repository before using it commercially.
Can I run Invoice Ninja with Docker?
Yes. Invoice Ninja provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Invoice Ninja?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Invoice Ninja include Odoo, ERPNext and Aureus ERP. Invoice Ninja itself is a self-hosted alternative to QuickBooks, Xero, FreshBooks, Wave and Zoho Books.
Is Invoice Ninja actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Invoice Ninja was on Oct 26, 2026 with 2,259 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v5.13.50, published Oct 21, 2026. It had 219 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.