Comparison

DeductiBee vs ItsDeductible

ItsDeductible went offline on October 21, 2025, after roughly two decades. An archived capture of its App Store listing from June 2025 showed 4.8 stars from roughly 20,200 ratings. DeductiBee is being built to be the thing those people actually wanted: the same year-round habit, the same category-by-category valuation, on an iPhone, with the records living on your device instead of on a server somebody else can switch off. Here is the comparison, including the one thing the old tool did better that we cannot replicate.

Read this first

If you missed the October 21 deadline, your history is probably not gone

This is the thing most people do not know, and it is true whether or not you ever install DeductiBee. Intuit still holds the data, and it will send it to you if you ask through the account data-request process. It is four steps and a few days of waiting.

1Sign in to your Intuit accountUse the same Intuit ID you used for ItsDeductible or TurboTax. The ItsDeductible site itself is gone, but the account that held the data is not.
2Open Data privacy and request a downloadIn your Intuit account, go to Data privacy and choose Download, then follow the screens to submit the request.
3Wait for the emailIntuit states that requests can take up to 15 days depending on how much data is involved. People who have done this recently report it arriving sooner than that.
4Find your donations in the fileIntuit's support article states that ItsDeductible data arrives inside the SharedData subfolder of the file you get back. That spreadsheet is what DeductiBee imports.

The process and the timings above are described in Intuit's own support article on accessing your personal data. DeductiBee reads the file you get back, and reads the CSV exports people downloaded before the deadline too. Importing your own history is free on every tier, permanently. The full step-by-step guide is here, including what the old CSV export leaves out.

Worth knowing before you import: the old CSV export left the charity list out entirely, a complaint users made loudly at the time. DeductiBee rebuilds your organizations from the charity name and address on each row and shows you what it found before saving anything.

The DeductiBee import screen, headed "Bring your donations with you", offering a CSV downloaded from an old tracker, the .xlsx workbook or ZIP returned by a data request, or any other tracker's spreadsheet, with a note that it imports only your own records and not a downloaded valuation guide, and a link reading "I've requested my data and I'm still waiting" — The import screen, with the route for a data request that has not arrived yet.

Cost

Pricing at a glance

DeductiBee

$19.99/year

Free tier is permanent: 20 new item entries a year, unlimited donation events, and unlimited import and viewing of your own history. Pro is $19.99 a year, $2.99 a month, or $59.99 once. Exporting your raw data is free on every tier.

ItsDeductible

Was free

Free to everyone from 2007 until the shutdown, because it fed TurboTax. Before that it was a paid product: $19.95 for the last standalone Windows release, and $29.95 a year for the original web subscription in 2003. The willingness to pay for this category is not theoretical.

Side by side

Feature comparison

Written to be checkable. Where a plain "no" would misrepresent ItsDeductible, the cell says what it actually does instead.

Feature	DeductiBee	ItsDeductible
Status todayDeductiBee is not on the App Store yet. Everything in the DeductiBee column describes v1.0 as scoped, not a shipping product.	In development for iPhone	Discontinued October 21, 2025
Price	Free for 20 new item entries a year, then $19.99 a year, $2.99 a month, or $59.99 once	Free from 2007 onward, $19.95 to $29.95 before that
Platform	Native iPhone app	Web app, plus an iPhone app from November 2013. No Android version ever, and no Mac desktop version ever.
Where your records live	On your iPhone, syncing only through your own private iCloud database	On Intuit's servers, behind an Intuit account
What happens if the company walks away	Nothing. The data is already on your device, and raw export is free on every tier, permanently.	Exports were available until October 21, 2025. After that the service went offline and unexported data was not recoverable from the product itself.
Where the values come fromThis is the one place the old tool had a real advantage over us. It gets its own section below.	Ranges derived from published thrift-store valuation guides and the methodology in IRS Publication 561, with the source shown next to every range	Point values from a licensed daily feed of closed eBay auction prices blended with thrift-store sales, reviewed annually
Catalog sizeFewer items, and every valued one carries the guide it came from. That is an honest starting point, not parity.	1,172 donatable goods at launch, 784 of them with a cited value range and the rest set up for a custom figure	Advertised as over 1,700 items in its final year
Condition tiers"There is no category for brand new" was a standing complaint for years.	Like new, Good, Fair	High and Medium only. The Low tier was disabled after the 2006 law change, and there was never a tier for unused items.
Changing a suggested value	Override any value. The override is flagged in every export.	Catalog values were fixed. The documented workaround was re-entering the thing as a custom item.
Entering a full bag	Add a bag at once: pick a condition tier, set a quantity, move on	Quantity per tier per item, but items were still added one at a time
Photo evidence	Photos on items and on the drop-off receipt	Never supported, in any era
Deleting an organization	Deleting an organization never silently deletes its donations	Deleting a charity removed the charity and every donation attached to it
Donation typesStock and securities are planned for a later DeductiBee release, not v1.	Items, cash, mileage, and volunteer out-of-pocket expenses	Items, cash, mileage, out-of-pocket, plus stock and securities
Exports	Form 8283 worksheet PDF, CSV, TXF, a donation receipt PDF with signature lines, and a manual-entry summary	Five PDF report types. CSV export only arrived at the shutdown, and there was never a TXF file.
Getting the numbers into tax softwareIntuit's own current guidance is that donation data must be entered manually in TurboTax, and TurboTax Online cannot import files at all.	Files you control: TXF for TurboTax Desktop, and a typed-in summary laid out the way the online donation screens ask	A server-side account import into TurboTax Deluxe or higher, which users reported failing at the start of several filing seasons
Account required	No DeductiBee account. Sync, if you turn it on, uses your Apple ID.	Intuit account required

The honest part

The part we cannot replicate, said plainly

Intuit licensed a daily feed of closed eBay auction prices through eBay's data licensing program and blended it with thrift-store sales data. That feed is why the values felt generous, and it is not something a one-person app can buy. DeductiBee's ranges are built from published thrift-store valuation guides and the fair market value methodology in IRS Publication 561, so for some categories our numbers will read lower than the ones you remember.

We are not going to inflate ranges to close that gap. A number you cannot source is worth less than a number you can, at exactly the moment it matters. What you get instead: every range shows where it came from, there are three condition tiers rather than two, a like-new tier exists at last, and you can override any value with the override flagged in the export so a preparer can see which figures are yours.

Which one

Which is right for you

DeductiBee is the better fit if

You tracked donations in ItsDeductible for years and want the habit back on your phone.
You want the number you claim to arrive with a source attached to it.
You have photos of donated things in your camera roll that were never attached to anything.
You file with something other than TurboTax, or you switched after the shutdown.
You would rather not have this happen to you again.

What you will genuinely miss

Values that often read higher, because they came off a licensed feed of closed eBay auction prices.
A catalog of more than 1,700 items, built over two decades.
Stock and securities tracking, which DeductiBee does not have at v1.
A price of zero, for anyone who was going to buy TurboTax anyway.
One-click import into TurboTax Desktop, in the years it worked.

Bottom line: ItsDeductible is not coming back, and the only thing it did better than DeductiBee is a data feed we cannot license. Everything users complained about for a decade (no like-new tier, uneditable values, item-by-item entry, no photos, charities you could never remove, and an import that broke every January) is fixed by design here, and the records end up somewhere no company can turn off.

The record

What actually happened, with dates

Worth writing down, because it is the whole argument for keeping donation records somewhere a company cannot reach.

July 14, 2003Intuit acquires Income Dynamics, the Omaha company that built ItsDeductible. The valuation product traces back further still, to a printed used-clothing valuation book.
2007The product becomes free to everyone and web-only. It had cost between $19.95 and $29.95 a year before that.
November 14, 2013The iPhone app launches. An archived capture of its App Store listing from June 2025 shows 4.8 stars from roughly 20,200 ratings.
May to July 2022Intuit announces the product will be discontinued, then reverses after a large community backlash: "We heard your feedback on ItsDeductible and we listened."
September 2, 2025The reversal banner promising the service would continue is still on the product page in the last archived capture of it.
By September 6, 2025The same page instead reads that ItsDeductible "isn't available after 10/21/25. Download your data on the web to use when filing your taxes."
October 21, 2025The service goes offline. Exports of tax years 2021 through 2025 stop being available from the product.
Since mid-November 2025The ItsDeductible URL is a redirect. The iPhone listing has been removed from the App Store.

Dates above come from archived captures of Intuit's own product pages taken by the Internet Archive, from Intuit's press and support material, and from its community forums. They are deliberately kept out of the primary-source list below: an archived web page is evidence about a company, not authority on a tax rule, and mixing the two would dilute a standard this site needs to hold. The September gap is the part worth sitting with: the reversal banner reading “We heard you and we listened! ItsDeductible service will continue” is present in a capture dated September 2, 2025, and the shutdown notice is present by September 6, four days later.

Primary sources for the tax claims on this page

Publication 561, Determining the Value of Donated PropertyIRS, IRS publication
Instructions for Form 8283IRS, IRS form
Publication 526, Charitable ContributionsIRS, IRS publication

FAQ

Questions people actually ask

What happened to ItsDeductible?

Intuit discontinued it. The shutdown notice went up on the product page in early September 2025, users could export tax years 2021 through 2025 until October 21, 2025, and the service went offline that day. The URL has redirected elsewhere since at least mid-November 2025. Intuit had announced a shutdown once before, in 2022, and reversed it after a large community backlash. It did not reverse this one.

I missed the October 21 deadline. Is my donation history gone?

Generally not, and most people do not know this. Intuit still holds the data and will send it to you if you ask through the account data-request process: sign in to your Intuit account, go to Data privacy, and submit a download request. Intuit says requests can take up to 15 days, and its support article states that your ItsDeductible data arrives inside the SharedData subfolder of the file you get back. See Intuit's support article on accessing your personal data.

Can DeductiBee import my ItsDeductible data?

Yes, and it is free on every tier, permanently. DeductiBee reads both shapes: the CSV files people downloaded before the shutdown (items, cash, mileage, stock, and the overall summary) and the spreadsheet that comes back from an Intuit data request. Because the old CSV export left the charity list out entirely, DeductiBee rebuilds your organizations from the charity name and address on each row and shows you what it found before anything is saved. Condition tiers map High to Like new and Medium to Good, and anything marked Other becomes a custom item flagged as an imported estimate.

Will DeductiBee's values match the ones ItsDeductible gave me?

Probably not exactly, and often they will be a little lower. ItsDeductible priced against a licensed feed of closed eBay auctions; DeductiBee builds ranges from published thrift-store valuation guides and the methodology in IRS Publication 561, and shows the source next to every range. Fair market value is a range, not a fact, so the useful question is not which number is bigger but which one you can explain later. You can also override any value, and the override is flagged in the export.

Did TurboTax replace ItsDeductible with anything?

Partly. TurboTax has a fair market value tool inside its own donations flow, under Deductions and credits, offering an excellent or like-new value and a fair or used value for an item. It is useful, and it is not a tracker: it only exists inside TurboTax at filing time, so the December drop-off is still reconstructed from memory in April, it does not keep photos or a record that outlives the return, and it is no help at all if you file somewhere else. See Intuit's help article on the FMV tool.

Can I still get my donation totals into TurboTax?

Yes, by typing them in. Intuit's own guidance is that TurboTax does not import ItsDeductible CSV files and that donation data must be entered manually, and TurboTax Online cannot import any file format. That is why DeductiBee's first-class export is a manual-entry summary: the exact figures, grouped the way the donation screens ask for them, so it is a two-minute job. TXF export is there too, for the TurboTax Desktop users who can still use File then Import then From TXF Files.

Is DeductiBee free, the way ItsDeductible was?

There is a real free tier: 20 new item entries a year, unlimited donation events, unlimited import of your existing history, unlimited viewing of past years, and free export of your raw data. Pro is $19.99 a year and adds unlimited entries, the formatted exports, and iCloud sync. ItsDeductible could be free because it existed to sell TurboTax; it also cost $19.95 to $29.95 a year before Intuit folded it into that funnel.

Is ItsDeductible coming back?

There is no indication that it is. Intuit reversed a planned 2022 shutdown after a large community backlash, so the possibility is not absurd, but the 2025 shutdown was carried out, the data window closed, and the product URL has redirected since at least mid-November 2025.

Keep reading

DeductiBee vs a spreadsheetThe other place most ItsDeductible users landed after the shutdown.DeductiBee vs Deductible DuckA hosted web app built as a direct successor, at $29.99 a year.DeductiBee vs TurboTaxWhat Intuit put in its place, and why it is not a tracker.All donation tracker comparisonsEvery replacement people moved to, compared on one page.Donation value guideThe same valuation data the app uses, with the source on every range.Form 8283, explainedWhen the form is required, and what Section A actually asks for.

Switching

Bring your history. Keep your deductions.

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

Free to start, with 20 new item entries a year. Pro is $19.99 a year. Importing and exporting your own raw data is free on every tier.