Every dollar in.
Every dollar out.
Record an expense or a sale in about ten seconds, and watch the monthly totals and net profit move as you type. No debits, no credits, no accounting course.
Free plan, no credit card, and your books stay on your own computer.
Argo Books
Three steps, about ten seconds
A spreadsheet lets you type anything into any cell. A guided form does not, which is why the numbers still add up a year later.
Record the transaction
Pick expense or revenue, then fill in the amount, the category and who it was with. Smart defaults fill most of it for you.
It checks before it saves
Required fields are enforced and amounts are verified, so nothing lands in your books half finished or in the wrong column.
See the picture change
Monthly revenue, expenses and net profit update the moment you save. No waiting for month end to find out where you stand.
Money in and money out, in one list
Revenue and expenses live in the same place, with matching forms and the same search. Sort by supplier, customer, date, amount or status, and edit a row without opening a separate page. Every change is kept, so you can see what moved and when.
- Summary cards for monthly revenue, expenses and net profit
- Search and filter by supplier, customer, date, amount or status
- Edit straight from the row, with full history and undo
Get your finances organized in minutes
No account, no credit card, and no accounting experience needed.
What changes when it is all in one place
You know if you are profitable today
Summary cards move as you add transactions, so the answer is on screen instead of waiting until the end of the month.
Guided forms catch the mistakes
Smart defaults and validation mean nothing saves with a missing category, a blank date, or an amount in the wrong column.
Any transaction, in seconds
Everything is indexed. Search by supplier, customer, amount or date and find it years later without scrolling a spreadsheet.
Tax-ready all year
Every entry is timestamped and categorized, with a receipt attached where it matters, so January is not a rebuilding job.
Your books stay on your computer
Argo Books is a desktop application, not a cloud service holding your finances on someone else's server. Transactions, receipts and reports are written to your own machine, and you can back them up or move them like any other file.
- Transactions and receipts stored locally
- No third-party cloud storage of your financial records
- Your data moves and backs up like any other file
Built for the way you actually work
Freelancers
Keep project income and business costs separate, and see profit per client when it is time to bill.
Retail and e-commerce
Record every sale and supplier purchase, track cost of goods, and see which suppliers cost you the most.
Service businesses
Log revenue by customer and costs by job, then compare profitability across service types and periods.
Side hustles
Start with a few transactions a week and scale to hundreds without the interface getting in the way.
Before you download
Not at all. Argo Books uses guided forms with smart defaults and built-in validation to make recording expenses and revenue simple for anyone. You don't need to know debits from credits. Just fill in the amount, category, and date, and Argo Books handles the rest.
Yes. Argo Books has dedicated expense and revenue pages with real-time summary cards showing monthly totals, transaction counts, and net profit. You get a complete picture of your business finances without switching between apps or spreadsheets.
You can attach receipts to any expense record for your records. Even better, AI receipt scanning can automatically create expense entries from receipt photos. It extracts the supplier name, line items, taxes, and total with 99.9% accuracy. All receipts are stored in a searchable archive so you're always ready for tax time.
Yes. If you have expense or revenue records in a spreadsheet, you can import them using the AI Spreadsheet Import feature. Just drop your Excel or CSV file and the AI maps your columns to the right fields automatically. It's the fastest way to get up and running with your existing financial data.