The app
A simple invoice app, for the way you actually bill
Invoice Tiger does invoices and estimates on your iPhone and stops there. These pages cover what that looks like for different kinds of work.
What an invoice app is, when it isn’t an accounting platform
Most products in this category are accounting systems with an invoice screen attached. Invoice Tiger is the invoice screen, built properly, on the device you already have in your pocket. That is a real trade — worth understanding before you pick either kind.
In scope
- Invoices and estimates, numbered separately
- Customers you enter once and reuse
- Line items, discounts, tax and a deposit
- Your own payment instructions on the document
- A clean PDF with your logo and no app branding
- Sharing through whatever you already use
Out of scope, on purpose
- Bookkeeping, bank feeds and reconciliation
- Payroll, inventory and tax filing
- Card processing and payment links
- Paid / unpaid tracking and reminders
- Scheduling, dispatch and job routing
- A web dashboard to log into
How it works for your kind of work
Same app, different jobs. Each of these covers what that trade actually puts on an invoice, and where the sharp edges are.
- House cleanersRecurring clients, one-off deep cleans and add-ons priced separately — billed before you leave the driveway.
- HandymenLabor plus materials, small jobs that stack up in a day, and the ones you have to look at before you can price.
- ContractorsPriced scope up front, a deposit on the invoice, and documents that still line up when the job changes halfway through.
- FreelancersBilling clients who have an approvals process, a PO number, and a payment run you have to fit into.
- PhotographersA quote before the date is held, a deposit that shows on the final invoice, and line items that separate shooting from everything after it.
If you got here by ruling something out
Plenty of people arrive at this looking for what an invoice app doesn’t make them do.
- Invoicing on iPhoneWhat an invoice app built for a phone — rather than a shrunken web app — actually feels like to use.
- Without accounting softwareWhere the line between “I need to bill someone” and “I need a bookkeeping system” actually falls — and how to tell which side you are on.
- Without payment processingWhat it means for an invoicing app to have no processor attached, and when that is the right trade.
If you would rather read about invoicing itself than about the app, the invoicing guides cover what goes on an invoice, how to number them, and what payment terms mean.
One app. Invoices and estimates. That's it.
No account to create, no accounting system to configure, and no percentage of what your customers pay you.