Ochre

Quiet invoicing

Get the invoice out, without the dread.

A native invoicing app for iPhone, iPad and Mac, with an Apple Watch glance. One plan covers every business you run, on every iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account.

Ochre Invoice turns the part of the job you keep putting off into a few calm minutes — one considered document, real tax built in, and nothing to sign up for first.

Skip the interactive demo

A working demo of the Ochre Mac app on invented data. It plays a short intro (a new invoice for Nova Traders, two lines, tax and total, issued as INV-2026-0003, the outstanding balance updating) and then the controls are yours: the sidebar switches between Documents, Customers, Vendors, Products and services, Money, Insights and Settings, the document cards open, the search field filters, and New invoice replays the composing. Press Escape to go back.

OchreDocuments
Outstanding
$75,000 $88,200
2 overdue$75,000
Needs attention 2
In flight 1
Settled 3
Nothing matchesTry clearing the status, period or search filters.
Nova TradersNo customer
Draft
IssuedINV-2026-0003Issued Oct 9, 2026 · Due Oct 23, 2026
$0$13,200
Items 2
Design sprint
2 × $4,500
$9,000
Consulting hour
12 × $250
$3,000
Subtotal$12,000
Tax$1,200
Total$13,200
Will be INV-2026-0003 on issue
Deccan Works
OverdueINV-2026-0002Issued Oct 2, 2026 · Due Oct 2, 2026
$50,000
Items 2
Design sprint
8 × $4,500
$36,000
Consulting hour
56 × $250
$14,000
Subtotal$50,000
Total$50,000
Green Valley Trust
OverdueINV-2026-0001Issued Oct 1, 2026 · Due Oct 1, 2026
$25,000
Items 2
Consulting hour
96 × $250
$24,000
A4 reams
40 × $25
$1,000
Subtotal$25,000
Total$25,000
Lion City Pte
PaidINV-2025-0012Issued Nov 12, 2025 · Due Nov 26, 2025
$8,000
Items 2
Design sprint
1 × $4,500
$4,500
Consulting hour
14 × $250
$3,500
Subtotal$8,000
Total$8,000
Paid$8,000
Outstanding$0
Nova Traders
PaidINV-2025-0014Issued Nov 20, 2025 · Due Dec 4, 2025
$11,000
Items 2
Design sprint
2 × $4,500
$9,000
Consulting hour
4 × $250
$1,000
Subtotal$10,000
Tax$1,000
Total$11,000
Paid$11,000
Outstanding$0
SEZ Exports Ltd
PaidINV-2025-0015Issued Dec 4, 2025 · Due Dec 18, 2025
$15,000
Items 1
Consulting hour
60 × $250
$15,000
Subtotal$15,000
Total$15,000
Paid$15,000
Outstanding$0
Nothing matchesTry a different name.
Nothing matchesTry a different name.
Nothing matchesTry a different name or SKU.
Business account
$44,200
Recent payments 3
INV-2025-0012 · Lion City Pte
Business account · Oct 6, 2026
$8,000
INV-2025-0014 · Nova Traders
Business account · Oct 3, 2026
$11,000
INV-2025-0015 · SEZ Exports Ltd
Business account · Oct 1, 2026
$15,000
For this month
Billed
$75,000$88,200
Collected
$34,000
Spent
$9,800
Net
$65,200$78,400
Invoiced basis — billed when you issue, spent when you pay. Billed includes the tax you charged.
Cash flow
Performance
Top customers
Deccan Works$50,000
Green Valley Trust$25,000
Nova Traders$13,200
Business
Invoice language
New drafts start in this language. Change any one on the draft itself, or here anytime.
Records
Appearance
Dark theme
Which paper the app reads on after dark.
Currencies
Email
Your own mail app
Ochre writes the email — you press send. Invoices go out through Mail, Gmail, or whichever app you already use — with the recipient, subject, and message filled in. Ochre never holds your email password and never sends anything on its own.
Your data
Local-first — your data stays yours
Ochre runs on this device. Your invoices, clients, and books live here — not on our servers; we don't run any and never see your data. Back up anytime as an encrypted .ochre file — to iCloud Drive if you like — and restore it on any device from Backup below. On-device AI, when enabled, reads nothing off your device either.

On the road

Left your Mac at home? Your invoices didn’t.

It’s on your Mac

The draft for your client sits on your Mac at home.

Open it on your iPhone

At the client’s, the same draft is already on your iPhone.

Change it on the spot

They want more work added. Change it, and the total updates.

Home again, it’s updated

Your Mac already shows the new total. Nothing to redo.

One plan. Every iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account.

With iCloud sync switched on and the same Apple Account on both. It goes through your own iCloud, never an Ochre server.

Why Ochre

Built around four ideas, not a feature list.

01

Per business

Run three businesses from one app and Ochre never blurs them together. Each keeps its own tax IDs, rates, branding, numbering, and wording — not one shared account wearing three names.

02

One price, every device

iPhone, iPad, and Mac with one Ochre Pro plan — $99.99 a year, or $299.99 once for Lifetime. Never priced per device, never priced per business.

03

Genuinely local-first

There's no sign-up screen. Open Ochre and you're already in — because there's no server to create an account on. Your books stay on your device. Turn on iCloud sync and they travel between your devices through your iCloud account — off until you switch it on, and it runs through Apple’s iCloud, never a server of ours.

04

AI that lifts the workload

Describe the job in a sentence and Ochre drafts the invoice. Point your camera at a receipt and it's a logged expense. It runs on your device — its whole job is to do the boring part, not to be clever at you.

Drafting from a sentence needs a device with Apple Intelligence. Receipt scanning works on every supported device; Apple Intelligence just makes it tidier.

What's inside

A quiet set of features, each one considered.

No sixty templates, no dashboard to learn — a small set of things done properly.

The invoice editor: a customer, line items, totals, and the payments recorded against it.

One considered document

Not a form with sixty templates — a single, well-set invoice. What you edit is what prints.

The tax-class editor listing GST 12%, GST 18% and Sales Tax, each marked inclusive or exclusive.

Real tax, worldwide

Turn tax on or off with one tap, in any country. Ochre suggests starting tax classes and rates for your market — you confirm or adjust them.

The compose sheet: describe an invoice in one sentence and Ochre drafts it, read entirely on the device.

Type a sentence, get a draft

Describe a job in plain language and Ochre drafts the invoice — lines, amounts, due date. Runs on your device, on hardware that supports it.

The Scan receipt sheet offering "Scan with camera" or "Choose photo", noting you confirm every field before saving.

Snap a receipt, log an expense

Point your camera at a receipt. Ochre reads the vendor, date, amount, and tax, on your device, and logs it as an expense.

The Money screen showing the business account balance above recently received payments.

Get paid, quietly

Record a payment and the invoice settles — a quiet PAID stamp, nothing loud. Add a payment link and every invoice carries a scannable pay-online QR.

Ochre on Apple Watch, showing what you are owed and a New invoice button you speak into.

Made for Apple

iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, with one Ochre Pro plan. Home Screen widgets, a watch complication for what you're owed, and Shortcuts support.

One plan

Every device you own.

Shown at true relative size. The same books, the same businesses, no second licence.

Ochre on MacBook Pro
Ochre on iPad Pro
Ochre on iPhone

You did the work. Getting paid shouldn’t be the hard part.

Ochre in numbers

One plan for every device you own.

One Ochre Pro plan covers every iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account. It is never priced per device or per business. The rest, in four numbers.

  • 1 plan. Every device you own

    iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account, and every business you run. Never per device, never per business.

  • 20 markets. Tax packs, rates you confirm

    Each pack carries a country’s tax classes and invoice rules. You confirm the rates for your business.

  • 12 languages. The client’s language, your call

    Pick the language per document: a German client can get an invoice in German. English is the default.

  • 0 Ochre servers holding your books

    Nothing to sign up to. There is no Ochre account and no Ochre server in the path of your data. Sync is off until you turn it on, and then it runs through your own iCloud.

Ochre on the Mac · sample data

iPhone, iPad and Mac · from $11.99 a month, $99.99 a year, or $299.99 once · US prices; local pricing varies

Why getting paid is the hard part → Late payments, in sourced numbers

Pricing

One plan. Every device.

Ochre Pro is one plan across your devices: it covers every device you own and every business you run, and is never priced per business. Issuing new numbered documents after the 7-day free trial needs Ochre Pro.

Free trial

7 days

On Pro yearly or monthly

  • Every feature unlocked while it runs — not a crippled free tier
  • Starts with Face ID or Touch ID, confirming the card already on your Apple ID — no card typed into Ochre, no account, no sign-up screen
  • Nothing is charged for 7 days; it auto-renews into the plan you chose unless you cancel first
  • If it lapses, your books stay yours — open them, export them, back them up. Only issuing new documents waits for a plan
Best value

Pro yearly

$99.99 / year

Saves 30% against monthly

  • Every device you own, on one Ochre Pro plan
  • Every business you run, at no extra cost
  • All 20 market packs and 12 document languages
  • On-device AI: compose from a sentence (needs Apple Intelligence), scan a receipt

Pro monthly

$11.99 / month

Cancel any time

  • The same Pro, billed month to month
  • Lifetime — $299.99 once, no trial, if you would rather not subscribe at all

Prices shown are the US anchor and are set per region by the App Store, so what you see at checkout is your own currency at Apple’s local tier. One Ochre Pro plan covers iPhone, iPad and Mac, and every business you run — Ochre is never priced per device or per business. Issuing new documents after the 7-day free trial requires Ochre Pro: a monthly or yearly subscription, or the one-time Lifetime purchase.

Prefer to own it outright? See how Ochre compares with FreshBooks and QuickBooks.

Compare

How Ochre compares.

Weighing your options? Each page sets Ochre beside an app people use today, as a dated, sourced fact table — and says plainly where that app is the better choice.

All comparisons in one place

At a glance

Ochre in ten facts.

Key facts about Ochre
PlatformsiPhone, iPad and Mac — native, not a web wrapper
Servers operated by OchreNone. There is no backend to sign in to
Account requiredNo sign-up, no email, no password
Markets20 jurisdiction packs — each country’s tax structure and invoice rules; you confirm the rates
Document languages12, chosen from the client’s market
SyncOptional iCloud, off by default, through your own Apple ID
Money arithmeticDecimal throughout — never floating point
AIOn-device Apple Foundation Models; nothing is uploaded
Your data outCSV, PDF, and a backup file you hold, encrypted by default
PriceFree 7-day trial · $99.99/year · $11.99/month · $299.99 once

Questions

The things people ask first.

Does Ochre work offline?
Yes, completely. Ochre has no backend, so there is nothing to be offline from. Every feature — issuing invoices, recording payments, producing statements and PDFs — works with no connection at all.
Do I need an account to use Ochre?
No. There is no sign-up screen, no email address, and no password, because Ochre has no accounts to create. You open the app and you are already in.
Where is my data stored?
On your own device, in Apple’s on-device database. Nothing is sent to a server operated by Ochre, and we have no ability to read your books.
Does Ochre sync between my devices?
Optionally. iCloud sync is off until you turn it on. When you do, your records mirror through the private database of your own iCloud account — readable only by the Apple ID that owns it, never by Ochre. With sync off, you move a backup file yourself, encrypted by default.
I left my Mac at home. Can I change an invoice or make a new one on my iPhone?
Yes, with iCloud sync on. Sync is off until you turn it on: switch it on in Settings on the Mac, then on the iPhone choose “Already using Ochre on another device?” when you open Ochre, signed in to the same Apple Account, and the iPhone holds the same books as the Mac. Make a new invoice or keep working on an existing one on the iPhone, and it is on the Mac when you are back. The change travels through your own iCloud, on your Apple Account, never through Ochre's servers: no Ochre server is in that path. The iPhone needs a connection for the change to reach your iCloud. One Ochre plan covers every business you run, on every iPhone, iPad and Mac on your Apple Account.
What does Ochre cost?
Free for 7 days on a Pro subscription, started with Face ID or Touch ID against the card already on your Apple ID — nothing is charged until the trial ends. After that: $99.99 a year, $11.99 a month, or $299.99 once for lifetime, which has no trial. One Ochre Pro plan covers every device you own, and every future update. Ochre has no paid upgrade. Issuing new invoices and other numbered documents after the trial needs Ochre Pro.
Can I use Ochre for more than one business?
Yes, at no extra cost. You can run several businesses from the same app, each with its own tax IDs, rates, branding, numbering and wording. Ochre is never priced per business.
Which countries and tax systems does Ochre handle?
Twenty markets ship as data packs carrying that country’s tax structure — its tax classes, invoice rules and wording, including Indian GST with HSN/SAC codes. Rates come pre-filled as a starting point you confirm for your own business; Ochre doesn’t file or advise. Documents render in twelve languages, chosen from the client’s market, so a German client receives a German invoice.
Can I get my data out of Ochre?
Yes. Customers, vendors and products export as CSV, every document exports as a PDF, and a full backup — encrypted by default — is a file you hold and can restore from on any device you own.
Is Ochre available on Android or Windows?
Not yet. Ochre is a native app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Android and Windows are on the roadmap, and there is no web version — the books live on your device, not in a browser.
What does “local-first” actually mean?
That your books are stored on your own device and work fully without a network, rather than living on a company’s server and being shown to you through an app. The practical test is whether the product still works when the vendor is offline, or gone. Ochre keeps no server that holds your books, so there is nothing to be cut off from.
Who is Ochre for?
One person or a small business who sends invoices and finds it a chore — freelancers, consultants, trades, small studios and shops. It is not an accounting package: there are no bank feeds, no reconciliation and no payroll.

Get Ochre

On the App Store.

Apple first — iPhone, iPad and Mac.

One Ochre Pro plan covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Ochre is built for Apple’s platforms; Windows and Android are a longer-term ambition, not a near-term promise.

Start now in your browser: the free finance tools make an invoice, estimate or receipt with nothing leaving your device — or browse invoicing rules by country.