The Best ItsDeductible Alternatives in 2026, Honestly Compared

ItsDeductible went offline on October 21, 2025, and the replacements have sorted themselves into two camps plus two do-it-yourself routes. The documentation-first camp: DeductiBee, a native iPhone app with cited values (we make this one, and we will be plain about that below); Deductible Duck, a hosted web app at $29.99 a year; DeductIt, a free cross-platform tracker with $1 and $2 a month paid tiers; and Charity Record, a web tracker with the broadest donation-type coverage. The AI-photo camp: ItsDeducted, DeductAble, and Kebab, which lead with photographing a donation pile and letting software identify the items. And the two non-products: a spreadsheet plus the IRS's own publications, which costs nothing, and simply typing your donations into TurboTax at filing time.

Which one is best depends on what you need, so this post ranks by use case rather than by a scorecard that conveniently crowns its author. The one-line version: DeductiBee if you want an iPhone app whose values carry visible sources and whose records live on your device; Deductible Duck if you need a desktop browser and want values built the way the old tool built them; DeductIt if price is the deciding factor; the AI-photo camp if capture speed matters more to you than where the numbers come from; a spreadsheet if you mostly give cash; and TurboTax alone if you donate once or twice a year and only think about it in April.

How this comparison works, and who is writing it

First, the disclosure: this site belongs to DeductiBee, so you are reading a comparison written by one of the entrants. Discount our opinions accordingly. What you should not have to discount are the facts, so every competitor claim below was read from that product's own public pages, pricing pages, FAQs, and documentation in early August 2026, and the strengths of each option are stated as plainly as the weaknesses. Where a competitor is genuinely the better pick for a use case, this post says so by name.

One more reason we think the honest version of this article needs to exist: one competitor's ItsDeductible replacement page describes its own product as the only widely accepted tool. No evidence accompanies that claim, and no accepted-by-whom is offered. We are not going to answer a superlative with a superlative. We are going to list what each option costs, where it runs, what it can and cannot do with Form 8283, and who each one actually suits.

The short version, in one table

1. DeductiBee: for sourced values and records nobody can switch off

DeductiBee is our product, built by one person specifically because of what happened in October 2025. It is a native iPhone app, and it is local-first: there is no DeductiBee account and no DeductiBee server holding your donations. Records live on your phone, and if you turn on sync it goes through your own private iCloud database. The design goal is that the failure mode everyone just lived through, a company deciding your donation history is no longer worth hosting, is structurally impossible.

The other thing that distinguishes it is where the numbers come from. Every suggested value is a range derived from published thrift-store valuation guides using the fair market value methodology in IRS Publication 561, and the source is shown next to the range. That cuts both ways: some of our numbers read lower than the ones the old tool showed, because ItsDeductible priced against a licensed feed of closed eBay auctions that an independent app cannot buy, and we will not inflate ranges to close the gap. You can inspect the data yourself in the donation value calculator before installing anything.

The free tier is permanent, not a trial: 20 new item entries a year, unlimited donation events, unlimited import of your ItsDeductible history, and raw CSV export free on every tier, forever. Pro is $19.99 a year with a 7-day trial, $2.99 a month, or $59.99 once, and it unlocks unlimited entries, iCloud sync, and the formatted exports: a filled Form 8283 worksheet PDF laid out the way Section A asks, TXF for TurboTax Desktop, and a typed-entry summary arranged the way the TurboTax Online donation screens want it. Photo evidence on items and receipts is on the free tier.

The honest limitations: as this post publishes, DeductiBee is not on the App Store yet, with v1 targeting November 2026, so everything above describes the product as scoped rather than one you can download today. It is iPhone only. It does not track stock donations at v1 and has no built-in charity lookup at v1. And as noted, some values will read more conservative than what you remember. The full side-by-side with the old product, including the one thing it did better that we cannot replicate, is at DeductiBee vs ItsDeductible.

2. Deductible Duck: for familiar values on any platform, with real trade-offs

Deductible Duck is the closest thing to a like-for-like successor, and its strengths deserve to be stated first. It runs in any modern browser, which covers Android and desktop that DeductiBee does not reach. It tracks the same four donation types the old tool did, including stock. It has IRS charity search built in. Its valuation database, which it describes as covering more than 1,700 items and attributes to eBay auctions and thrift-store valuations, is the closest method we have found to the licensed feed that made ItsDeductible's numbers feel generous. And it is one flat tier: $29.99 a year, everything included.

Now the trade-offs, each one from their own published pages. The subscription is annual only, described as non-refundable, and one year is the shortest term they sell, so trying it seriously means committing $29.99 up front. It is not in the App Store or Google Play: the mobile version, added in January 2026, is a progressive web app you save to your home screen from the browser, their docs note that the mobile version cannot generate downloads, TXF exports, or 8283 worksheets, and they warn about data loss in areas with flaky or no mobile data. Receipt attachments are a paid feature and work on item donations only.

On the paperwork, their own knowledge base includes a page titled "Why can't you fill out Form 8283 for me?" The product produces a worksheet, and users copy it into their tax software column by column. For TurboTax Online specifically, their documentation describes entering placeholder summary donations and then printing and mailing the return with printed PDF statements enclosed, and their own words about those two options are "Neither is an attractive option." A few smaller things are worth knowing too: deleting a charity deletes all of its donations across all years, which their docs document as intended behavior, their free trial is described as covering $500 of donations on one page and $1,000 on another, and their value guides describe their own ranges as examples of the kind of ranges donors use, with no per-range sourcing.

One structural note, offered without malice: Deductible Duck is built by a team of two, and it is a hosted service, which is the same shape as the product that just disappeared. That is not a prediction, and small teams ship good software. It is simply the risk dimension anyone burned in October 2025 should price in when the records need to outlive the subscription. For a closer look at this product against DeductIt, there is a dedicated three-way breakdown in ItsDeductible vs DeductIt vs Deductible Duck.

3. DeductIt: for the lowest price and the widest platform coverage

DeductIt, from Foothill AI, is the budget answer, and it is a genuinely strong one. The free Basic tier includes unlimited donation entries, fair market values, PDF and CSV export, and printable receipts, which makes it the most generous free tier on this list by a wide margin. The Supporter tier at $1 a month adds photo attachments, 501(c)(3) charity lookup against IRS data, and TXF export. The Pro tier at $2 a month adds voice dictation, family sharing, and Google Drive backup, and the iPhone listing offers annual and lifetime versions of both paid tiers. It runs on iPhone, Android, and in a browser, with data synced across devices once you sign in with Google.

If price is your deciding factor, DeductIt wins this comparison and we would rather say so than bury it. It is cheaper than DeductiBee at every comparable tier, its free tier does not cap entries where ours does, and it covers Android, which DeductiBee simply does not.

Two things we could not find on their public pages as of August 5, 2026, stated as absences rather than accusations: a published source or methodology for the built-in value guide, and a Form 8283 worksheet among the described exports, which are PDF and CSV tax reports. If either matters to you, ask them or test the free tier, since it costs nothing to check. It also tracks stock donations, which DeductiBee does not at v1.

4. The AI-photo camp: ItsDeducted, DeductAble, and Kebab

The genuinely new idea since the shutdown is photographing the donation pile and letting software identify the items. Three products lead with it, and the appeal is real: the slowest part of the old workflow was searching a database one item at a time, and a photo of a full bag attacks exactly that. What follows is read from their own pages in August 2026; we have not benchmarked any of them, and their recognition quality is not something we can vouch for in either direction.

ItsDeducted is the loudest of the three and the one with a name engineered to be found by people searching for the old product; it launched in March 2026 as a rebrand of a product called Deduct It, and it is independent of Intuit, as its own pages say. It is a web app plus a Google Play app, with no iPhone app. You photograph a bag or pile, its AI proposes items and values, and you review before saving. The free tier needs no card and stops at $750 in total tracked donation value plus one 50-item list import; Pro is $29 a year and adds unlimited tracking, list imports, PDF and Excel exports, Google Photos backup, and household sharing. Three details worth knowing before you commit a year of records to it: its Trust page FAQ states that uploaded photos are used for identification and not stored, so the photo evidence lives in your Google Photos, not in your donation records, and only on Pro; its value ranges name no published sources, describing a dataset of resale prices with IRS Publication 561 as methodology context; and its own pages show three different condition-tier schemes, including a Poor tier priced at $0. The full side-by-side is at DeductiBee vs ItsDeducted.

DeductAble is the only AI-photo product with a native iPhone app today, at a published $19.99 a year, and it advertises direct import of ItsDeductible CSV, XLSX, and ZIP exports. Kebab is the privacy pitch of the three: iPhone and Android, on-device storage, capture by photo, barcode, handwritten list, or thrift receipt, and a prefilled Form 8283 on its premium tier, at $29.99 a year after a three-day trial. If the photo workflow is what you want on an iPhone right now, those two are the honest recommendations, because DeductiBee's first release is entry-first: photo-assisted capture is planned for after launch, and we would rather ship it well than market it early.

The question to ask any AI valuation, including a future ours: where did the number come from? A model's guess that you approve is still a guess unless it resolves to a published, citable range. None of the three publishes named sources for its values today. Speed of capture and defensibility of the number are different problems, and the second one is the one an examiner cares about.

5. A spreadsheet plus IRS publications: the genuinely free option

A spreadsheet is where most people landed after the shutdown, and the instinct behind it is correct: it is free, it opens anywhere, it will still open in twenty years, and no company can discontinue it. For cash and check gifts it is honestly all most people need. The amount is the amount, your bank record does most of the substantiation work, and for any single contribution of $250 or more you keep the contemporaneous written acknowledgment the charity gives you, a rule set out in IRS Publication 526.

The cost shows up with non-cash donations, and it is a time cost rather than a money cost. You research a defensible fair market value for every item yourself, using the approach in Publication 561, which generally points at what buyers actually pay for comparable used goods in thrift and consignment markets. You keep your own records of how each value was determined. You maintain your own photo filing discipline. You watch the thresholds yourself: Form 8283 is generally required once your total non-cash contributions for the year pass $500, and a qualified appraisal generally enters the picture above $5,000 for an item or group of similar items, per the Form 8283 instructions. And in April you map your columns onto the form's columns by hand.

If you enjoy owning that model and will actually keep it current through the year, this is a perfectly respectable answer, and it is the only one on this list with a total cost of zero. Most people who choose it under-claim, not because the method fails but because researching thirty items in a donation bag is tedious enough that the bag gets logged as a guess or not at all.

6. Manual TurboTax entry: for people who only think about this in April

TurboTax did not replace ItsDeductible with a tracker, but it does have a fair market value tool inside its own donations flow, under Deductions and credits, which offers an excellent or like-new value and a fair or used value for an item. If you make one or two donations a year, keep the receipts in an envelope, and file with TurboTax, that plus manual entry is a workable system and costs nothing beyond the software you were buying anyway.

The limits are structural. The tool exists only inside TurboTax at filing time, so a December drop-off still gets reconstructed from memory the following April. It keeps no photos and no record that outlives the return. It is no help at all if you file with anything else. And TurboTax Online cannot import donation files from any of the trackers on this list, so whichever tool you use, the online edition ultimately involves typing figures in, which is why a tracker's job is really to hand you clean, grouped totals to type.

Which one should you pick

• You want an iPhone app, values with visible sources, a filled 8283 worksheet, and records that survive any company's exit: DeductiBee, accepting that it ships in November 2026 and that some values will read conservative.
• You need a desktop browser, want values built from auction-style data like the old tool's, and prefer one flat price: Deductible Duck, accepting the annual-only commitment, the print-and-mail path for TurboTax Online, and a hosted account.
• You want the lowest cost, an uncapped free tier, family sharing, or stock tracking today: DeductIt, accepting that its valuation sourcing and 8283 support are not described on its public pages.
• You want photo-first capture on an iPhone today: DeductAble or Kebab, accepting that neither publishes named sources for its values. If you are fine in a browser and will stay under $750 a year, ItsDeducted's free tier is a no-card way to try the workflow.
• You mostly give cash, or you genuinely enjoy maintaining your own system: a spreadsheet plus Publications 526 and 561, accepting the per-item research burden.
• You donate rarely and file with TurboTax: manual entry with the built-in FMV tool, accepting that nothing is tracked between filings.

Whatever you choose, three rules travel with you

The tool changes; the substantiation rules do not. Keep the written acknowledgment for any single gift of $250 or more. Expect Form 8283 once total non-cash giving generally passes $500 for the year, and expect its Section A columns to ask for things casual records rarely capture, like how and when you acquired each item. And whichever product you pick, confirm you can get your data out before you put a year of records in: export formats and exit terms are the lesson of October 2025, not a footnote to it.

We obviously think DeductiBee is the right answer for the person the old tool served best: the household that drops bags at a thrift store all year and wants each one valued defensibly, photographed, and shaped into the actual form. But every option on this list is a real option, four of the five exist today, and the worst choice by a distance is the one most people are silently making, which is tracking nothing and guessing in April.