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In one line
PrivateBooks turns bank and credit-card statements into Schedule C-ready books on your own computer — with the deductions for your line of work pre-loaded, and no account, cloud, or bank login anywhere in the process.
Boilerplate
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, sorts them into tax
categories using 578 built-in rules plus deduction packs for 8 professions, and
produces a Profit & Loss and Schedule C summary for a tax preparer. It runs entirely offline:
no account, no cloud service, no bank connection, and no telemetry. PrivateBooks is
$49.99 once, with no subscription, and is published by Arc & Ledger Accounting.
Fast facts
Name — PrivateBooks
Publisher — Arc & Ledger Accounting
What it is — Local-first bookkeeping for US 1099 and self-employed work
Price — $49.99 one time — no subscription
Platforms — Windows 10 22H2 / 11 (Microsoft Store); macOS legacy edition
Privacy — No account, no cloud, no telemetry, no network calls
Built-in sorting rules — 578
Profession deduction packs — 8
Tax output — Schedule C (sole proprietor / single-member LLC)
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.
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.
Contact
Press enquiries: press@privatebooks.org. We're happy to answer technical questions about the privacy claims — they're testable, and we'd rather you tested them.