A tool people relied on for twenty years
was switched off.

Why DeductiBee exists

For about two decades, the best-known way for an American household to value a carload of donated clothes was Intuit's ItsDeductible. It was well liked in a way tax software rarely is: an archived App Store listing captured in June 2025 showed it at 4.8 stars from roughly 20,200 ratings. Intuit discontinued it on October 21, 2025.

What made that land harder than a normal sunset was the sequence. A banner promising the service would continue, put up after an earlier reversal, was still on the product page in early September 2025. The shutdown notice replaced it four days later. People had a few weeks to download years of their own records, and plenty of them found out afterwards.

That is not a story about a villain. Products get discontinued and companies change strategy. It is a story about where a record ought to live, and it has a straightforward answer: on the device of the person whose record it is. DeductiBee is that answer, written as an app.

The principles

• The records are yours, on your device. Donations, values, and photos live in a database on your iPhone. There is no account to be locked out of and no server of ours holding a copy. Optional sync runs through your own private iCloud database, which we cannot read.
• Every value shows its source. Ranges are derived from published valuation guides and the methodology in IRS Publication 561, and the app shows which source a range came from next to the number. Nothing is invented, and nothing is copied from another product's valuation guide.
• Your own data is never behind the paywall. Importing your history, reading it, and exporting all of it raw are free on every tier, permanently. The paid tier is for new capacity (more item entries a year, more than one photo on an item), for the paperwork (the formatted 8283, CSV and TXF exports), and for sync and year-over-year comparisons. Never for access to what you already entered.
• Nothing measures you. No analytics SDK in the app, no tracking script on this site, no advertising identifiers, and no data to sell. Subscriptions are the whole business model, so there is no reason to build any of that.
• Sources over confidence. Every tax claim on this site links to the IRS publication, form, or instruction it comes from, and anything unsettled is hedged rather than stated flat. If a claim cannot be sourced, it does not get made.

Where the values come from

The valuation dataset is the part of this product that takes real work, and it is built from scratch. Ranges are derived from published thrift and resale valuation guides and from the methodology in IRS Publication 561, Determining the Value of Donated Property, each range carrying the source it came from, in three condition tiers: Like new, Good, and Fair. There is no Poor tier, because since 2006 household goods generally have to be in good used condition or better to be deductible at all. The whole dataset is public: read it in the donation value guide.

What the dataset is deliberately notbuilt from is anyone else's valuation guide. The old product's published tables were downloadable right up to the shutdown, and copying them would have been both a legal problem and a strange way to start a product whose entire argument is that you can check its work. The honest consequence is worth stating plainly: the previous tool licensed a live feed of closed auction data, and our ranges will sometimes read as more conservative than the ones people remember. We would rather hand you a number you can defend than a number you like.

Who builds it

DeductiBee is built by Ian MacCallum, founder of Parra, an independent software company that publishes a small number of focused consumer apps. It is a one-person product: the app, the dataset, this website, and the reply to your support email are all the same person.

He is not a CPA, an enrolled agent, or a tax attorney, and this site never claims otherwise. That is exactly why every tax claim here links to the IRS publication, form, or instruction behind it, and why the guides hedge anything that is genuinely unsettled rather than rounding it into a confident sentence. You should be able to check the work rather than take anyone's word for it.

How we make money

Subscriptions, and nothing else. DeductiBee Pro is $19.99 a year, $2.99 a month, or $59.99 once. No advertising, no data sales, no affiliate links to tax software, and no fee from anyone whose product gets mentioned on this site. The pricing page lays out precisely what the paid tier adds and what stays free forever.

What DeductiBee is not

It is not tax advice, it does not prepare or file a return, and it does not send anything to the IRS. Its Form 8283 output is a worksheet laid out like Section A of that form, meant to be worked from or handed to a preparer, not the fileable federal form. Where a deduction requires a qualified appraisal, DeductiBee tells you so and stops there, because an estimate from a dataset is not an appraisal and never will be. See the Instructions for Form 8283 for when that applies, and confirm anything that affects a return with a qualified professional.

Get in touch

Questions, feedback, or a value that looks wrong, email support@parra.io. A disputed valuation is genuinely useful mail: the dataset gets a new edition every year, and corrections with a reason behind them are how it improves.