Where are you migrating from?
Pick what you are leaving and you will get the actual click path: how to get your donation history out of it, what the file contains, what it silently leaves behind, and how to bring it into DeductiBee. Every step was read off that product's own pages on a date printed at the bottom of its page.
Importing your own history is free on every tier, permanently, and so is exporting your raw data again later. Neither is behind the paywall, on principle: your records are yours.
Choose what you are leaving
11 guides, including the two that are not products at all: a spreadsheet, and a drawer full of paper receipts.
- ItsDeductibleDiscontinued serviceIntuit's tracker, switched off on October 21, 2025. If you missed the export deadline your history is almost certainly still recoverable, and most people do not know that.Export: PartlyRead the guide
- Deductible DuckWebsite you add to your home screenA subscription web app, and one of the most-used ItsDeductible replacements. Its full-archive export is the best documented on this list, and their FAQ ties export access to an active subscription, so the order you do things in matters.Export: On a paid tierRead the guide
- DeductAble AIiPhone appAn App Store tracker built around AI photo capture. Export is genuinely quick, but three of their own pages disagree about which formats a free account gets, so check before you cancel.Export: PartlyRead the guide
- DeductItiPhone app and websiteOne of the easier moves on this list. Their pricing page lists CSV and PDF export alongside the free tier and puts the TurboTax file in a paid one, which is the opposite of how most products here gate things.Export: YesRead the guide
- ItsDeductedWebsiteAn independent web product with a name deliberately close to Intuit's. It gates export backwards compared to everyone else here: the tax-software file is free and the spreadsheet is the paid one.Export: PartlyRead the guide
- Charity RecordWebsiteThe most generous export policy on this list. Their terms state you can export all your donation records at any time in CSV, and their FAQ says CSV export is always available, paid or not.Export: YesRead the guide
- TurboTaxA tool inside a tax returnIntuit did not replace ItsDeductible with a tracker. What survives is a valuation lookup inside the TurboTax donations flow, and it keeps nothing of its own between years.Export: NoRead the guide
- H&R Block DeductionProA tool inside a tax returnNot a standalone product any more: a valuation step inside H&R Block's paid DIY products. There is no file to export, so the move is a printout and a retype.Export: NoRead the guide
- iGiveItiPhone appA long-lived, ad-supported logging app whose listing advertises CSV export. An iGiveIt record is a dollar amount rather than a list of items, so there is less to move than you might expect.Export: PartlyRead the guide
- A spreadsheetExcel, Google Sheets, or NumbersThe most common donation tracker in America. Getting a CSV out is a File menu command in all three apps, and the whole difficulty is in the details of the file that comes out.Export: YesRead the guide
- Paper receiptsReceipts, a shoebox, or memoryNo file, no account, no export. What this page tells you is which parts of a paper record the IRS lets you reconstruct, and which parts are genuinely gone.Export: NoRead the guide
Which of these will actually give you your data back
The question nobody answers before you have already committed to a product. A tracker that will not export is a tracker you cannot leave, which matters more than any feature on a comparison table.
| Leaving | What it is | Export | Format | Link to the guide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ItsDeductible | Discontinued service | Partly | XLSX, CSV (if exported before the shutdown) | Read the guideto switching from ItsDeductible |
| Deductible Duck | Website you add to your home screen | On a paid tier | ZIP of CSVs, CSV, PDF, HTML, TXF | Read the guideto switching from Deductible Duck |
| DeductAble AI | iPhone app | Partly | CSV, PDF, TXF | Read the guideto switching from DeductAble AI |
| DeductIt | iPhone app and website | Yes | CSV, PDF, TXF (paid tier) | Read the guideto switching from DeductIt |
| ItsDeducted | Website | Partly | Excel (paid tier), PDF (paid tier), TXF | Read the guideto switching from ItsDeducted |
| Charity Record | Website | Yes | ZIP of CSVs, CSV, PDF (paid), HTML (paid), TXF (paid) | Read the guideto switching from Charity Record |
| TurboTax | A tool inside a tax return | No | PDF, Proprietary .tax file | Read the guideto switching from TurboTax |
| H&R Block DeductionPro | A tool inside a tax return | No | PDF, Paper printout | Read the guideto switching from DeductionPro |
| iGiveIt | iPhone app | Partly | CSV, HTML | Read the guideto switching from iGiveIt |
| A spreadsheet | Excel, Google Sheets, or Numbers | Yes | CSV, CSV UTF-8, XLSX | Read the guideto switching from a spreadsheet |
| Paper receipts | Receipts, a shoebox, or memory | No | None | Read the guideto switching from a drawer of receipts |
“Not documented” means we could not find an export described anywhere on that product's own pages, not that it has none. Each guide says exactly what we checked and when. If you know better than we do, tell us and we will fix the page.
Five things that turned out to be true almost everywhere
Researching all eleven of these in one pass surfaced patterns that no single product's help pages would tell you. They are worth reading before you start, whichever guide you are headed for.
- 1
Export is almost always one tax year at a time
Nearly every product here scopes its download to the year you have selected, and none of them documents an export-everything button. Budget one pass per year you tracked, and expect to end up with a small pile of files rather than one archive. DeductiBee takes them in any order, and importing the same file twice does not duplicate anything.
- 2
A TXF file is not a migration file
Several products offer TXF and it looks like the serious option. It is a tax-software interchange format, and four separate vendors describe its limits in almost the same words: Charity Record says it carries payee name, date and amount; Deductible Duck says only items and money transfer; DeductIt says cash and items only. Item descriptions, conditions and charity addresses generally do not survive it. Take the CSV.
- 3
Export before you cancel, not after
This is the mistake that costs people their history. Some products tie export access to an active subscription, at least one deletes a free account immediately and permanently on request, and the incumbent switched its export off entirely with about six weeks of notice. Get the files onto your own disk first. Deciding what to do about the subscription is a separate, reversible problem.
- 4
Photos are the thing that usually does not travel
Almost no product here documents an export that packages your receipt and item images, and several store them on their servers rather than on your phone. Deductible Duck is the exception that documents including them in its full archive. Everywhere else, plan on saving photos by hand before you close an account, because an image you cannot get back is not something a later import can fix.
- 5
Almost nobody publishes their export's columns
Not one product researched here publishes a schema for the file it hands you, which is why every guide on this site describes what a product records rather than promising what its file contains. It is also why DeductiBee reads your header row and shows you the mapping it worked out before saving anything, instead of assuming a fixed shape and silently dropping what does not fit.
What happens once the file reaches DeductiBee
Identical whatever you exported from, because the importer works out what the file is rather than asking you to tell it.
- 1Open Import in DeductiBee and pick your fileImport lives in onboarding and in Settings afterwards, so it is there whether you are new or have been using the app for a year. Choose the file from Files, iCloud Drive, or whatever app it landed in.
- 2Check the preview before anything is savedDeductiBee reads the file, works out which columns are which, and shows you what it found: how many donations, which tax years, and how each condition tier maps onto Like new, Good, and Fair. Nothing is written to your records until you accept that preview.
- 3Confirm the organizations it rebuiltMost exports list a charity name on every row rather than a separate list of organizations, so DeductiBee reconstructs the list from those rows and shows it to you to confirm or merge. Re-importing the same file later does not duplicate anything.
Questions about moving your records
Do I have to pay to import my donation history?
What file formats can DeductiBee read?
What happens if I import the same file twice?
Will my photos come across?
I still have not decided which tracker to move to. Should I export anyway?
Do I need my old history at all, or can I just start fresh?
How do you know these steps are right?
If you have not picked yet
These guides assume you have chosen. If you are still weighing the options, start with the comparisons instead: several of them recommend somebody else.
- ComparisonsCompare donation trackersFeature-by-feature comparisons against every replacement people moved to, including where the other option wins.
- ValuesDonation value guideWhat we price and where each range came from, so you can judge the values rather than take them.
- CalculatorDonation calculatorTotal a donation in the browser, free, with no account and nothing to install.
- GuideReceipts and substantiationWhat records the IRS expects you to keep, which is the reason any of this history is worth moving.
Bring your history. Keep your deductions.
Import what you already have, value what you give next with a source attached, and export the paperwork when you file.
Import is never paywalled
Your own data goes in free and comes back out free, on every tier, permanently.
Nothing to undo
You see a preview before anything is saved, and re-importing the same file does not duplicate a thing.
Free to start, with 20 new item entries a year. Import and raw export are free on every tier.