A QuickBooks Self-Employed alternative, built around your taxes.
QuickBooks Self-Employed is being retired in favor of QuickBooks Solopreneur. If you’re weighing what to use instead, and you care most about knowing what you’ll owe and claiming every deduction, here’s an honest look at where Taxottic fits.
The honest version first
QuickBooks Solopreneur is a light bookkeeping tool with mileage tracking, receipt capture, profit-and-loss reports, and a path to file through QuickBooks Live Tax. Taxottic is narrower on purpose: it’s a year-round tax-forecasting companion. It doesn’t keep a general ledger and it doesn’t file your return , it pairs with whatever you file with. What it does instead is keep a live answer to the question that actually keeps freelancers up at night: how much will I owe, and am I setting enough aside?
Where Taxottic is different
A live forecast, not a year-end surprise
Connect your bank and Taxottic keeps a running estimate of your federal + state tax, self-employment tax, and QBI deduction, updated as money moves, not reconstructed in April.
Quarterly estimated taxes, handled
It tells you what to send each quarter and when, so you hit the safe harbor and skip the underpayment penalty.
IRS-cited deductions
A library of 1,000+ deductions, each tied to its IRS source, filtered to your entity type, so you claim what you're owed with a citation to back it up.
Mileage that logs itself
Automatic background mileage tracking builds an IRS-ready log as you drive, no notebook, no forgotten trips.
Free to start, then from $4.99/mo
A free tier with no card, and paid plans well under the ~$20/month range of the one-person bookkeeping tools. Yearly saves ~17%, 14-day trial.
When QuickBooks Solopreneur is the better fit
If you want proper bookkeeping with a profit-and-loss statement, invoicing, and an all-in-one path to file your return inside the same tool, a bookkeeping suite like QuickBooks Solopreneur or a filing product like TurboTax is the right call. Taxottic is for people who’ve got filing handled and want a sharper, cheaper, always-current view of their tax picture the other 51 weeks of the year. Plenty of people use both.
Verified February 2026 against QuickBooks' own site.
Frequently asked
What happened to QuickBooks Self-Employed?
Intuit discontinued QuickBooks Self-Employed for new sign-ups in 2024 and now directs people to QuickBooks Solopreneur, its replacement for one-person businesses. Existing subscribers can continue or migrate. If you're looking for an alternative, this is usually why.
Is Taxottic a replacement for QuickBooks Self-Employed?
For the tax side, yes, Taxottic keeps a live, bank-synced forecast of what you'll owe, tracks quarterly estimated taxes, surfaces IRS-cited deductions, and logs your business mileage automatically. It is not a full bookkeeping suite and it does not file your return, so it pairs with your filing software rather than replacing it. It starts free.
How much does Taxottic cost compared to QuickBooks Solopreneur?
Taxottic has a free tier with no card required and paid plans starting at $4.99/month (yearly saves about 17%, with a 14-day trial). QuickBooks Solopreneur is priced around $20/month as of early 2026. Check each provider's site for current pricing.
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