Open DeductBook

Charitable donation tracker · ItsDeductible replacement

Track your giving. Simplify tax time.

Keep charitable donations and receipts together, ready for tax time.

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No account needed to try it.

Sample ledger · 2026Saved
2026 donations
$970.00 recorded
Greater Lakes Food BankCash · Jan 14 · Joint
$500.00
Goodwill IndustriesGoods · Apr 18 · David
$170.00
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Riverside Arts CenterCash · May 9 · Joint
$300.00
1 record to add

Three steps, all year

Add gifts as they happen, attach the paper, and the summary builds itself before you file.

1

Record the donation

Money, goods, stock, mileage or an out-of-pocket volunteer cost. A value guide prices donated goods at thrift-store fair market value.

2

Attach the receipt

Snap the receipt or the charity's letter. DeductBook tells you when a gift of $250 or more still needs a written acknowledgment, and when goods over $500 need Form 8283.

3

Hand over the summary

Totals by type, household member and organization, a filing checklist, and a CSV your preparer can open. Every entry shows whether its records are complete.

Your year-end donation summary

Totals, the forms you'll need and what's still missing, whether you file yourself or hand it to a preparer. Here is one, with sample data.

Tax summary · 2026
Recorded $5,884.16 · estimated deduction $5,749.66 · before AGI limits and the 0.5% floor
By type
Cash / check / card
$820.00
Goods (non-cash)
$170.00
Stock / securities
$4,200.00
Volunteer mileage
$15.06
Volunteer expenses
$544.60
Total
$5,749.66
Filing checklist
!Schedule A, lines 11 and 12
!Form 8283 Section A: non-cash gifts total $4,370.00, over $500
!1 gift of $250 or more still needs a written acknowledgment
–No item or group of similar items over $5,000: no appraisal needed
–Optional: 2 entries have paper records but no photo attached
Exports: entry CSV · itemized goods CSV · copy as text

Every entry is checked against the IRS rules

As you type, DeductBook reads what you entered against Publication 526 and tells you what counts, what gets reduced, and which record you still need. Plain English, with the reason.

Gala tickets worth $120. The value you received is subtracted, so $300 becomes $180.
Lunch after a local volunteer shift. Not deductible, and excluded from the estimate. Meals on an overnight trip for the charity do count.
Two more examples
$250 gift, no letter yet. Acknowledgment needed before you file. We say what the letter has to state.
$6,000 of similar donated items across two charities. Over $5,000 for the year means a qualified appraisal and Form 8283 Section B.

Also inside

One household ledger

Invite your spouse; both of you add donations and receipts to the same records from any device. Simultaneous edits are kept, never silently overwritten.

Coming soon. Today, records stay on your device with backup files to move them.

A value guide with sources

Typical thrift-store ranges for about 130 common items, adjusted by condition, with the IRS rules on appraisals and similar-item aggregation built in.

Why we built it

For years our family tracked charitable gifts in ItsDeductible. When it was discontinued, we went looking for a replacement and didn't find one that covered everything: the cash gifts, the volunteer miles, the receipts and acknowledgment letters that make a deduction hold up, and a way for two people to keep one set of records.

Coming from ItsDeductible or a spreadsheet?

  • Start with this year's gifts; the value guide covers the same kinds of items.
  • Your data is yours: export a full backup or a CSV at any time.
  • Import your ItsDeductible export or any spreadsheet from Backup & data. Moving from ItsDeductible, step by step.

Pricing

Free on one device. A household plan for cloud saving and sharing, free while it's in beta.

Free · This browser
$0
  • All donation types, the value guide and the rules
  • Receipts stored in your browser
  • Tax summary, CSV exports, manual backups

Records live in the browser you use. Back up before clearing browser data.

Use on this device
Household · coming soon
$0 during the beta

Planned price after the beta: $19 a year per household, everyone you invite included. You'll be told the date and price before anything changes.

  • Everything in Free
  • Cloud saving, open from phone or computer
  • Household sharing: invited members never pay separately
  • Private receipt storage
  • Read-only access for your accountant

If you ever stop paying, your records and exports stay available; only adding and sharing pause.

Not available yet

Questions

Is this tax advice?

No. DeductBook organizes your records and explains the IRS rules in plain English, citing Publication 526 and 561. Confirm deductions with a qualified preparer. It doesn't file returns and doesn't promise a refund.

Where is my data stored?

Without an account, only in your browser; nothing is uploaded. With a household account, in a database and private file storage where access is limited to the people in your household. Either way you can export everything. Details are on the privacy page.

How does household sharing work?

Donations belong to a household, not a person. The owner invites people by email. Members can add and edit; viewers, like an accountant, can only read and export. If two people edit the same donation at once, both versions are kept for you to choose from.

What about volunteer expenses?

Mileage is deductible at 14¢ a mile plus parking and tolls. Supplies, uniforms with no everyday use, and travel away from home on real charity duty count. Your time, local meals, and childcare don't. DeductBook applies these rules as you fill in the form.

Can I import from ItsDeductible?

Yes. Request your data export from your Intuit account, then use Backup & data → Import spreadsheet in DeductBook with the ItsDeductibleOnline.xlsx file. Dates, charities, items, values, cash, mileage and stock come across; receipts don't, so you tick off records as you confirm them. Step by step.