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Righto is a free accounting app for Mac. Freelancers and small businesses use it to categorize bank transactions, reconcile accounts, track bills, and make reports for their accountant. Or they ask their own AI agent to do it for them.

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  • Every feature is free
  • No account, no bank login
  • Your books stay on your Mac

Close the month on your Mac.

Bring in your bank activity, let your rules sort it, check it against your statement, track your bills, and hand clean reports to your accountant. Your books stay on your computer, not on someone else's server.

Bring any bank statement.

CSV, OFX, QFX, or a PDF statement read on your Mac. Righto maps the columns, flags likely duplicates and shows every row before anything touches your books.

Learn more about importing bank statements

Cash-basis books. Easy to read.

Income counts when the money comes in, and an expense counts when it goes out. Your reports follow your bank account.

Learn more about the cash basis

Sort it once. Righto does the rest.

Make a rule from any transaction, like "Adobe is always Software". Righto uses it on every new import and shows which rule sorted what.

Learn more about rules

Know your books match the bank.

Tick each line against your bank statement. When the difference is $0.00, every dollar is accounted for.

Learn more about reconciling

Track your bills.

Record a bill when it arrives, see what is due this week, and mark it paid when the money leaves. Track what customers owe you too.

Learn more about bills

One file. One password.

Each business lives in one encrypted file. Copy it, keep it in Time Machine, or open it on another Mac. No account, no cloud.

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Your AI agent can keep the books. Righto checks its work.

Connect Claude, Codex or any agent through the Righto command line or MCP. You choose Read only, Propose changes or Full access. Every change is recorded and can be undone.

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Ready for your accountant.

The five standard reports, plus a year-end folder with every report and receipt. Export it all whenever you like.

Learn more about reports

Accounting, in plain words.

Most people who run a business never studied accounting, and Righto doesn't expect you to. When an accounting word shows up in the app, a small ? sits beside it. Click it for a short answer in everyday language and a link to the full guide, so you learn the words as you go instead of looking them up somewhere else.

The same answers are in the glossary in our Help Center, if you want to read ahead.

Bring your own AI

Ask your AI agent. It does the books.

Righto is built for people and for AI agents. Connect the agent you already use and tell it what you need, in plain words. It works in Righto the same way you do, and Righto checks every change.

Import my October Chase statement and sort it.

40 rows imported. 37 sorted by your rules, 3 need a category.

What did I spend on software this year?

$2,184.20 across 14 payments. Adobe is the largest, at $719.88.

Reconcile checking to the September statement.

Difference is $0.00. September is reconciled.

Example requests. Your agent's replies depend on your books.

  • Any agent you already use

    Claude Code, Codex, or any agent that can run a command line tool or connect over MCP.

  • It can do anything you can

    Imports, categories, rules, reconciling, bills, reports and exports. Only you can connect or remove an agent.

  • You set the limits

    Read only, Propose changes for you to accept, or Full access. Every change is recorded and can be undone.

  • Your books stay on your Mac

    Righto has no built-in AI. Your agent works with the file on your computer, and your books never go to a Righto server.

  • How agents work with Righto

Your books are yours to keep.

A hosted service can raise its price, change its plans, or close. Righto is an app and a file on your computer. You own both, and they keep working. No one can take them from you. Not even us.

You own the app

Righto runs on your Mac, not on a server. There is no subscription to lapse and no account to close.

You own the data

Each business is one encrypted file. Copy it, back it up, and open it again years from now.

Your agent can do what you do

Give your AI agent full access and it can use every part of Righto: import, reconcile, attach receipts, run reports.

See how it goes head to head.

FeatureRightoQuickBooks OnlineXero
Where your books are keptOn your MacIntuit's serversXero's servers
Works without internetYesNoNo
No account to sign up forYesNoNo
Import bank statement filesYesYesYes
Rules that sort transactionsYesYesYes
Bank reconciliationYesYesYes
Cash-basis reportsYesYesYes
BillsNo limitYes5 a month on Early
Price per month, as of October 2026$0Every feature, free$0–$3405 plans, Free is limited$27–$973 plans

Free accounting software for Mac.

Righto Books is free accounting software for Mac, made for freelancers and small businesses. You download it, bring in your bank statements, and your books stay in one file on your own computer. These are the questions people ask first.

Is Righto really free?

Yes. Every feature is free, with no plans, no trial and no account. Righto v1 is free, and made just for you.

Where are my books kept?

In one encrypted file on your Mac, one file per business. Righto has no server, so your books never leave your computer unless you copy the file somewhere yourself.

Does Righto connect to my bank?

Not directly. Download a statement from your bank (CSV, OFX, QFX or PDF) and import it. Righto shows every row before anything touches your books, and your rules sort the rest.

Can I switch from QuickBooks or Xero?

Yes. Righto starts fresh on a date you choose and brings over your chart of accounts, customers, vendors, balances and open bills and invoices. It does not copy your full transaction history, so keep your old reports. The switching guide walks through it.

Will my accountant be able to work with this?

Yes. Righto keeps real double-entry books and makes the standard reports: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, general ledger and trial balance. At year end it bundles every report and receipt into one folder you can hand over. See year-end package.

Is Righto safe to install?

Yes. Righto is signed with our Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, which means Apple scanned it for malware before you download it. macOS checks this when you open it, so Righto opens without a warning.

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Righto can’t wait to meet you.

Download it free, bring in your bank statements, and watch your books come together.

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