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PrivateBooks turns downloaded bank and credit-card statement files into owner-reviewed local books and a 2025 Schedule C handoff for a preparer - with no PrivateBooks account, hosted books, or bank login.

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PrivateBooks is local-first bookkeeping software for US sole proprietors, gig workers and single-member LLC owners - people who got a 1099 and never wanted to learn accounting software. It reads the statement files you already download from your bank, suggests tax categories using 533 built-in rules plus bookkeeping guides for 24 professions, and produces a Profit & Loss and versioned 2025 Schedule C summary for preparer review. The owner confirms or changes every suggested category, and the Schedule C summary stays a draft until then. The bookkeeping workflow is fully useful offline: no PrivateBooks account, hosted bookkeeping service, bank connection, telemetry, or automatic financial-data upload. v4's planned US launch price is $49.99 once with no subscription, but no verified public v4 installer is currently available. PrivateBooks is published by Arc & Ledger Accounting.

Fast facts

Name - PrivateBooks
Publisher - Arc & Ledger Accounting
What it is - Pre-release local-first bookkeeping for US 1099 and self-employed work
Price - Planned v4 US launch price: $49.99 one time
Availability - No verified public v4 installer; frozen v3.4.2 Mac release remains available
Platforms - Windows 10 22H2/11 x64 and macOS are planned v4 targets
Privacy - No account, hosted books, telemetry, or automatic financial-data upload
Built-in category-suggestion rules - 533
Profession bookkeeping guides - 24
Tax output - 2025 Schedule C calculation for sole proprietor / single-member LLC; preparer review required
Website - privatebooks.org

Logo & icon

The mark is a ledger that is also a padlock. Please don't recolour it, stretch it, or set it on a busy background.

The PrivateBooks app icon - a ledger that is also a padlock App icon (PNG, 256×256) Logo mark (SVG) Social card (PNG, 1200×630)

Brand colours

Ink
#221E18
Paper
#FBF6EC
Brand green
#1F6B57
Deep green
#124234
Clay
#95491F

Screenshots

Real screenshots of the running app - no mockups. Click to download the full-resolution file.

PrivateBooks - Tax readiness checklist showing 4 blockers and 2 warnings
Tax readiness checklist showing 4 blockers and 2 warnings
 PrivateBooks - Schedule C reports
Schedule C reports
 PrivateBooks - Review queue
Review queue
 PrivateBooks - Guided setup
Guided setup
 PrivateBooks - Statement import
Statement import
 PrivateBooks - Cash flow over time
Cash flow over time

Contact

No public press contact is active until delivery, reply handling, and ownership are independently verified. No response-time or active press-channel claim is made before release. The product's privacy boundaries are designed to be tested against exact release candidates.