The challenge
Millions of Indian small businesses — kirana stores, workshops, service providers, freelancers, trusts, temples and community funds — still run their books in paper diaries or scattered spreadsheets. Off-the-shelf accounting software is heavy, expensive, cloud-locked, and built for accountants, not for the person actually running the shop. What they need is something that:
- works offline, on the one device they own — their phone;
- produces professional, GST-correct documents customers accept;
- speaks their language; and
- keeps their data private and safe, without a monthly subscription.
The solution
ackplus built Simple Account — an offline-first mobile ledger that turns day-to-day money movement into clean books and share-ready documents in seconds. Everything runs on the device; the internet is optional.
What it does
- Income & expense tracking — one-tap entry, custom categories, link a customer or supplier, attach a receipt photo, mark paid or on-credit (udhaar).
- 10 document types, 3 styles — GST invoices, quotations, proforma invoices, cash memos, receipts, payment vouchers, credit & debit notes, purchase orders, and 80G donation receipts — each itemised with taxes and discounts, rendered to a crisp A4 PDF.
- Reports that matter — GST summary, balance sheet, outstanding / ageing dues, and income-vs-expense — computed from your real data.
- Built for India — multiple named tax rates (GST 5/12/18/28), custom payment methods (UPI, Paytm, cash…), business IDs (GSTIN/PAN), and per-book currency and formatting.
- Multiple books — keep the shop, the side business, and the temple fund in separate accounts, switch in a tap.
Highlights
- Offline-first — record entries and generate PDFs with no network at all.
- Private by design — your data lives on your device. No account to create, no data sold, no ads getting in the way.
- Safe backups — export a backup file to share or store anywhere, or connect Google Drive for automatic, scheduled backups to a private app folder only Simple Account can see. Restore everything — books, contacts, documents and settings — onto a new phone in minutes.
- Seven languages — the whole app, including generated documents.
