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How to switch from Deductible Duck to DeductiBee

Deductible Duck documents its export better than anyone else here, including the fact that your attached receipts come down inside the archive. The thing to get right is sequence. Their FAQ says you keep access to your exports while your subscription remains active, so export first and cancel second.

Deductible Duck today
Live at the time of writing. A subscription web app, and its own install guide states that it is not installed through the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store: the mobile version is the website added to your home screen.
Can you get a file out
On a paid tierZIP of CSVs, CSV, PDF, HTML, TXF
Their pricing page lists CSV, PDF and HTML reports and exports among the paid plan's features. Whether a free trial can export is not documented either way.
Before you start

What trips people up moving off Deductible Duck

  • Their reporting is organized by tax year, so budget for one export pass per year. No all-years control is documented.
  • Their FAQ says you retain access to your account and exports while your subscription remains active, which makes cancel-then-export the wrong order.
  • The TXF file looks like a full export and is not one. Their own guide says mileage and stock donations must be entered manually into TurboTax because the format does not allow enough data to transfer, and that Form 8283 detail does not survive it either.
  • Two of their own pages sit awkwardly together on file storage: their FAQ says they do not store uploaded files on their servers, while their receipts guide says attached receipts are included in the export archive. We can see the tension; we cannot tell you how they reconcile it, so verify your receipts are in the ZIP rather than assuming.
  • Their free trial limit reads as $500 of donations on their FAQ and $1,000 on their homepage. We are not going to pick one for you; check before relying on either.
Step one

Get your records out of Deductible Duck

Their FAQ states that you keep access to your account and exports while your subscription remains active, so do this before you cancel or let a renewal lapse, not after. Their privacy policy states they are not GDPR compliant, on the basis that the service is for United States taxpayers, which is worth knowing because it means there is no statutory data-access request described as a fallback if the in-app export does not cover you.

  1. 1Sign in to the web appGo to app.deductibleduck.com and log in. Their install guide is explicit that this is a website rather than an App Store download, so the same product is what you get on a phone and on a computer.
  2. 2Select the tax year firstThe dashboard has year buttons, and their documentation places the download control immediately next to them. Their reporting is organized by tax year throughout, so set the year you want before you open the download dialog.
  3. 3Open Download My DataTheir documentation places this at the top right of the dashboard, next to the year buttons. There is a second route: Tax Reports in the left sidebar, then the third box at the top for Download My Records.
  4. 4Use Export All Data (CSV)In the top right of that dialog. Their docs describe this as generating a ZIP file of all CSVs for your records, which is the fullest single file they document. The per-category buttons next to it (Overall Summary, Items, Money, Mileage, Stock) are there if you want the pieces separately.
  5. 5Check your receipts are inside the ZIPTheir receipts guide states that when you export the ZIP with everything, they include all of your PDF or image receipts inside it. Open the archive and confirm the attachments are actually there before you cancel anything.
  6. 6Repeat for every tax year you haveTheir reporting is organized by tax year, so plan on one pass per year rather than a single archive of everything. If you find a control that exports every year at once, use it: we could not confirm one exists.
  7. 7Ignore the TXF button for this purposeTXF is for handing off to TurboTax Desktop, not for moving to another tracker. Their own guide states that mileage and stock donations must be entered manually into TurboTax because the TXF format does not carry enough, and that Form 8283 detail does not survive it either.
Step two

Bring the file into DeductiBee

DeductiBee works out what the file is rather than asking you, so these three steps are the same whatever you exported from.

  1. 8Open 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.
  2. 9Check 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.
  3. 10Confirm 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.

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.

The honest part

What comes with you, and what does not

No migration is lossless. Knowing which half is which before you start is the difference between a move and a surprise.

Comes with you

  • Donation date
  • Charity name, address and EIN
  • Item description and fair market value
  • The method used to determine that value
  • The four donation categories they track: items, money, mileage and stock
  • Attached receipt files, inside the Export All Data ZIP
  • PDF and HTML report versions of the same records

Does not come with you

  • Acquisition date and how you acquired each item, which their own docs describe as information you still have to supply for Form 8283
  • Original cost or cost basis for items
  • Their bundled valuation guide, which is their content rather than your data
  • Almost everything, if you take only the TXF file: their guide limits it to items and money
FAQ

Questions about leaving Deductible Duck

Can I export from Deductible Duck after I cancel?
Their FAQ states that you retain access to your account and exports while your subscription remains active. It does not say what happens once it is not, and we could not find a page that does, so treat exporting before you cancel as the safe order.
Do my receipt images come with me?
Their receipts guide states that the Export All Data archive includes all of your PDF or image receipts, which makes it the path to use, and it is the only export on this whole list documented as carrying attachments. Open the archive and confirm they are there before you rely on it: a separate line in their FAQ says they do not store uploaded files, and we cannot tell you how those two statements fit together.
Why not just use their TXF file?
Because it is a tax-software handoff, not a migration file. Their own TurboTax guide states that mileage and stock donations must be entered manually because the TXF format does not allow enough data to transfer, and that Form 8283 detail does not move either. Take the CSV ZIP.
Is Deductible Duck an iPhone app?
No, and they say so themselves: their install guide states the app is not installed through the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, and walks you through adding the website to your home screen instead. That is a real difference in practice, because a website generally needs a connection and your records live on their servers. The full comparison is here.
Method

Where these steps came from

The steps above were read off Deductible Duck's own public pages on August 9, 2026, and those pages are linked below so you can check the work. Menus and wording in other companies' products change without notice. If something here no longer matches what you see, we would rather hear about it than leave it wrong.

What we could not confirm

  • Everything in the list above describes what the product records, not a published export schema. Their CSV column headers are not documented for any category, so DeductiBee reads the file with its generic column mapper and shows you what it matched rather than assuming a fixed shape.
  • Whether the condition tier appears as its own column in the items CSV. Their TurboTax guide implies they store condition, but no page we found confirms it is in the export.
  • Whether receipt images come down with the per-category downloads or only with the Export All Data ZIP. Only the ZIP path is documented.
  • Whether free-trial users can export at all, and whether export survives a lapsed subscription past the renewal date. Their FAQ says access continues while a subscription is active and does not describe either edge.
  • Whether a full-account or all-years export exists but is simply undocumented. Absence of documentation is not proof of absence.
  • Whether self-service account deletion exists. We could not find it documented, which is not the same as it not being there.
  • Every page of theirs was read through a summarizing proxy, because direct requests to their site are blocked. Button-level wording may differ slightly from what you see.
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Moving from something else

Bring it all with you

Your donation history should outlive the app you kept it in.

Import what you already have, value what you gave next with a source attached, and export the paperwork when you file.

Nothing to lose in the move

Import is free, re-importing the same file does not duplicate anything, and you can export your raw data again whenever you want.

Records that stay yours

Everything lives on your iPhone, syncing only through your own private iCloud database.

DeductiBee on the App StoreFree to start, with 20 new item entries a year. Import and raw export are free on every tier.