KiwiBooks.ai

05/20/2026

Quick poll for the freelancers and solopreneurs in here 👇

How many apps do you use to manage your business finances (Drop an emoji in the comment section)?

👆🏻 Just one (impressive)
👯‍♀️ Two or three
🏋️‍♀️ Four or five
😭 I honestly lost count

Drop your letter below.

For context, the average freelancer uses four different apps to manage money. Invoicing, expenses, mileage, banking. None of them talk to each other.

KiwiBooks does all of it. One place, one conversation. Try free at

AI that categorizes, invoices, tracks mileage, and keeps every business you run tax-ready. Just $15/month after a 14-day free trial, no credit card required.

05/15/2026

The one form most freelancers don't know they need: Form 1040-ES.

Four payments a year. April 15, June 15, September 15, January 15.* Pay them on time, and you skip the IRS underpayment penalty entirely. Skip them, and the penalty stacks at 8% annualized as of 2026.

If you're new to self-employment and didn't realize you were supposed to be paying taxes throughout the year, you're not behind. You're now informed. Use the safe harbor: divide last year's total tax bill by 4, send a check (or pay online via IRS Direct Pay) on each due date, and your future self can stop bracing for April.

KiwiBooks tracks every payment, calculates the next one, and reminds you the week before. Free 14-day trial at kiwibooks.ai.

Save it and share it with a freelance friend. kiwibooks.ai

* IRS Form 1040-ES, 2026 quarterly due dates. Underpayment penalty rate per IRS Rev. Rul. 2026-1 (subject to quarterly review).

05/14/2026

If you run your own business and do your own books, you know the worst monthly task: opening your transaction list and clicking through every Starbucks, Shell, and Zoom charge to assign a category.

Across a year, that's about 10 hours of evenings.

We just took that off your plate.

Every new transaction in KiwiBooks now auto-categorizes the moment it hits your account. The AI reads the merchant, picks the right expense category, and writes the Schedule C line in one step. Works whether you typed it in, dropped a CSV, or connected your bank through Plaid.

About 95% accuracy on the first pass. Fix the rest once, and the model remembers your preference for that vendor going forward. CPA corrections stick the same way.

Your coffee with a client? Already on Line 24b at the right 50% deduction. Gas fill-up? Line 9. Software? Line 27a.

End-of-year export is ready for your accountant. No clean-up evening required.

What category do you fight with most when categorizing? Curious what we should improve next.

05/07/2026

If you run a cleaning business, you're probably leaving money on the table every single week.

Three things every cleaning pro should be tracking:

1. Every mile you drive to a client's home. At the 2025 IRS rate of $0.67/mile, 1,000 miles = $670 in deductions. Most cleaners drive 5,000-10,000+ miles per year for work.

2. Every supply you buy. Cleaning products, gloves, mops, and vacuums are all deductible.

3. Equipment and tools. Anything you use exclusively for work is a write-off.

Kiwi tracks all three automatically. It connects to your bank and logs mileage in the background.

Share this with a cleaner you know who's doing their own books.

05/06/2026

Be honest: what's the one money task you keep putting off?

Reconciling receipts from three months ago?
Logging the mileage you definitely drove but definitely didn't track?
Figuring out how much you owe in estimated taxes (and when)?

Tell us in the comments and we'll show you exactly how Kiwi handles it. No judgment. We've seen way worse.

And if you've already got this dialed in, share your system below. Someone in this community needs it.

05/01/2026

One simple rule that will fix about 80% of the bookkeeping messes we see.

Open a separate bank account for your business. Today.

That's it. That's the whole rule.

Every personal purchase you stop mixing in is a deduction you stop losing. Every business income you keep separate is a number your CPA stops charging you to untangle. And every transaction flowing into your books is automatically 'for the business' by definition.

Most online banks will open a free business checking account in under 10 minutes. And when you connect it to KiwiBooks, Kiwi categorizes about 90% of your transactions for you the moment they post.

Small step. Enormous tax-season difference.

Ready to connect your new business account? Start your free trial at kiwibooks.ai.

04/29/2026

Raise your hand if you've ever filed a business expense under 'miscellaneous' and just hoped for the best. 🙋‍♂️

It's okay. It's a category, a prayer, and a freelance rite of passage all at once.

Drop your most questionable 'miscellaneous' purchase in the comments. We'll share the best ones. No judgment. We've categorized weirder.

(Also, Kiwi will actually tell you what category things belong in. But that's a Thursday problem.)

Comment your best one 👇

04/16/2026

We built KiwiBooks because bookkeeping shouldn't require a degree in accounting.

31 million sole proprietors, freelancers, and independent business owners in the U.S. are stuck using tools designed for accountants. Other bookkeeping software tools out there are powerful, sure, but they assume you already know what you're doing.

Most people don't. And that's not a flaw. That's just reality.

So we built something different.

KiwiBooks is an AI bookkeeper you can actually talk to. Connect your bank, and Kiwi gets to work by categorizing every transaction to IRS tax line items, capturing receipts, tracking mileage, and generating tax-ready reports. No jargon. No accounting knowledge needed. Just ask Kiwi.

This wasn't possible two years ago. LLMs changed that. We're the first bookkeeping platform built from scratch as an AI agent, not a retrofitted spreadsheet with a chatbot bolted on.

We're live. We're growing. And we're just getting started.

If you're a freelancer, sole proprietor, or independent contractor tired of dreading tax season (yes, already time to prep for next year!), this was built for you.

Try KiwiBooks free for 14 days at kiwibooks.ai. No credit card required.

Just tell Kiwi. It handles the rest.

01/24/2022

שנת 2022 נפתחה רשמית!
השאירו פרטים ונעזור לכם לבדוק אילו כספים מגיעים לכם.
ניתן לפנות דרך האתר, בתגובה ובהודעה בווצאפ או במסנג׳ר.

11/28/2021

"80% מהשכירים זכאים להחזר מס כלשהו"
"כיום יש 8.2 מיליארד שקל של מיסים מיותרים שמחכים בקופת המדינה. 80% מהשכירים זכאים להחזר מס כלשהו ואילו 92% מהאוכלוסייה מעולם לא הגישו בקשה להחזר מס. זאת, בין היתר בגלל חוסר מודעות, ריבוי טפסים ובירוקרטיה ופחד מתהליך יחסית מסובך שכולל לעיתים מונחים לא ברורים".

מה הסיבה שכל כך הרבה אנשים זכאים להחזר? "יכולות להיות המון סיבות לזכאות להחזר מס: חופשה ללא תשלום או אבטלה; ביטוח חיים; משכנתה; ילדים שנולדו בסוף שנה; הפרשי שכר משמעותיים; תרומה של למעלה מ-190 שקל; השקעות בשוק ההון; עבודה בשני מקומות במקביל ועוד".

השירות של אלברט עוד צעיר ולא מוזכר בכתבה, אבל אנחנו מתחייבים להיות השירות היחיד שמבצע גם בדיקה אוטומטית שאינה מצריכה מכם לאתר טפסים, וגם מספקים ליווי מלא של רואה חשבון. גם וגם. הכי מקצועי והכי שירותי! עוד לא הגשתם פרטים לבדיקת החזר? מהרו לפני סוף השנה!

https://www.ynet.co.il/economy/article/rjvt8jilt