DeductiBee is live: the native ItsDeductible replacement for iPhone

DeductiBee is on the App Store. It is a native iPhone app for tracking charitable donations through the year: value each item from a dataset that shows where the number came from, keep a photo with it, and arrive at filing season with the work already done.

It exists because ItsDeductible shut down on October 21, 2025, and the thing that replaced it inside TurboTax only appears at filing time, only inside TurboTax, and keeps nothing. This is the second giving season the people who used that tool have gone into without it.

What it does

• Values items from a bundled fair market value dataset with condition tiers of Like new, Good, and Fair, and shows the source next to every range.
• Logs a whole bag at once: pick a condition, set a quantity, move on. Item-by-item is still there when you want it.
• Keeps photos on items and on the drop-off receipt, which the old tool never supported in any era.
• Tracks cash gifts, mileage, and volunteer out-of-pocket expenses alongside items.
• Imports your ItsDeductible history, both the pre-shutdown CSVs and the spreadsheet from an Intuit data request, free on every tier.
• Exports a Form 8283 worksheet PDF, a CSV, a TXF file for TurboTax Desktop, a receipt PDF with signature lines, and a manual-entry summary laid out the way the donation screens ask for it.
• Works offline, with no account, storing everything on your iPhone. Sync, if you turn it on, goes through your own private iCloud database.

What it does not do, at v1

Worth reading before you install, since a launch post that only lists strengths is not much use to anyone.

• No Android. It is a native iPhone app, and that is a real limitation rather than a positioning choice.
• No stock or securities donations. Existing stock rows import and are visible, but you cannot add new ones. Donated securities bring Form 8283 questions that deserve a proper implementation.
• No charity lookup against IRS records. Organizations are a list you manage, and deleting one never silently deletes its donations.
• A smaller catalog than you are used to: 1,172 selectable goods, 784 of them with a suggested value range, against the 1,700-plus the old tool advertised in its final year.

About the values

They may read as more conservative than the numbers you remember, and there is a specific reason. Intuit licensed a daily feed of closed eBay auction prices and blended it with thrift-store data. That feed is not something an independent app can buy.

So DeductiBee competes on a different axis: every range is derived from published thrift-store valuation guides and the fair market value methodology in Publication 561, the source is visible next to the range in the app, and the dataset ships as a dated annual edition. Publication 561 defines fair market value as the price a willing buyer would pay a willing seller, with neither required to act and both reasonably informed, and points at what used goods actually fetch in consignment and thrift shops as the indication of value.

Any suggested value can be overridden, and the override is flagged in every export, because a number you adjusted should say so rather than blend in. Look at the data before you buy anything: the calculator and the value guide run in a browser, free, with no account.

What it costs

There is a permanent free tier: 20 new item entries a year, unlimited donation events, one photo per item, and unlimited import and viewing of your own history. Pro is $19.99 a year with a 7-day trial, $2.99 a month, or $59.99 once.

Three things are never behind the paywall, deliberately. Importing your own data. Viewing your own data. And exporting your raw data as CSV, on every tier, including after a subscription lapses. Pro covers new-item capacity beyond the free allowance, unlimited photos per item, the formatted exports (Form 8283 worksheet, TXF, receipt PDF), year-over-year comparisons, and sync. Full detail is on the pricing page.

Bring your history with you

If you exported from ItsDeductible before the deadline, DeductiBee reads those CSVs. If you did not, your data is probably still recoverable through an Intuit data request, which takes about five minutes to submit. Values come across exactly as they were, because those are the figures on returns you already filed and nothing should quietly re-price them. Old tiers map across: High becomes Like new, Medium becomes Good, custom items stay custom.

Full walkthroughs: how to get your data back from Intuit and how the import works.

The next six weeks are the ones that matter

A great deal of giving happens between now and December 31, and it is typically the least well documented, because it happens in a hurry. The bags go out during a house clear-out, the drop-off slip goes in a coat pocket, and in April there is a vague memory of "some clothes and a bookcase" that turns into either an underclaim or a number nobody can defend.

Timing generally follows delivery. Publication 526 puts it as "usually, you make a contribution at the time of its unconditional delivery", so a bag handed over on December 31 generally counts for that year and one dropped on January 2 generally does not. Other kinds of gift have their own rules in the same section (a mailed check counts on the date you mail it, a card donation on the date of the charge), so this is the physical drop-off case, not a universal one. If you are planning a year-end clear-out, three habits make the difference, and none of them require our app:

1. Photograph the load before it leaves the house, and again with the receipt in shot at the drop-off. Thirty seconds, and it is the strongest evidence you will ever have of what and when.
2. Value it the same day, while you can still see what was in the bag. Condition is the input that drives everything, and it is the first thing memory loses.
3. Ask for a written acknowledgment on anything approaching $250, before you leave. Going back for one in March is a much harder conversation than asking for one at the counter.

DeductiBee automates the middle one and prompts the other two. If you want a fuller list, the value guide is organized by the categories that actually come out of a house: clothing, furniture, kitchen and housewares, toys and games.

Why the records live on your phone

In 2022 Intuit announced ItsDeductible would be discontinued, met a wall of complaints, and reversed: "We heard your feedback on ItsDeductible and we listened." That notice stayed on the product page for three years. Its last archived appearance is September 2, 2025. By September 6 the same page carried a shutdown notice with a six-week fuse.

Nobody did anything unusual there. Products get retired, and the people who used it had no way to hold the records themselves. DeductiBee is built so that question never arises: no DeductiBee account, no DeductiBee server holding your donations, raw export free forever. The honest cost is that if you delete the app with sync off, we cannot restore anything, because we do not have it.

What is next

The near-term list, in rough order: a wider catalog with each annual edition of the dataset, stock and securities donations, and refinements to the exports based on what preparers say when they receive them. There is also a charitable deduction for people who do not itemize beginning with tax year 2026, which we have written up in a deliberately hedged form in the non-itemizer guide; we will build for it when the guidance is fully settled rather than before.

If you are working out whether this is for you, the honest comparisons are here: against the old tool, against a spreadsheet, and against the other products people moved to after the shutdown, including where they beat us.

Ian MacCallum built this. If something is wrong, or a value looks off, or your import file does not behave, the feedback form inside the app reaches him directly.

Moving your records over? The ItsDeductible import guide covers both file shapes, and this walkthrough covers getting your data back after the October 2025 deadline.