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+author:
+  name: Mihailo Vojinović
+  social: https://github.com/mihna123
+title: Top 10 Invoice Generating Websites in 2026
+date: 2026-06-08 13:43
+excerpt: What are some of the top websites for easy invoice generation in 2026? I will rank them by the user experience, feature richness, speed as well as the price.
+---
+
+## 1. Invoice-Generator.com
+
+[Invoice-Generator.com](https://www.invoice-generator.com) is probably one of
+the fastest and simplest websites for generating invoices there is. One thing
+that I value a lot is that the main feature is available with **no account**.
+You can go to the website right now and just fill out a form and download your
+pdf.
+
+In order to get the **invoice saving feature**, you have to create an account.
+All the invoices are saved in the browsers local storage, so you don't need to
+worry about data privacy. Bad part about that is if you switch browsers, or you
+need to check your invoices from another device, you will **not be able to
+access all of your invoices.**
+
+Another cool feature they have is that they provide an **API endpint for**
+you to generate invoices programatically. This is not a free feature, which
+makes sense.
+
+### Pros of invoice-generator.com
+
+- Very good free tier
+- PDF generation is fast
+- Your data is secure and not visible to them
+
+### Cons of invoice-generator.com
+
+- You can not access your data from other browsers
+- Clearing your browser storage will wipe all your data
+- Not open source
+
+## 2. Invoice Simple (invoicesimple.com)
+
+[Invoice Simple](https://www.invoicesimple.com) is an option with maybe the
+largest amount of features on this list. Invoice Simple goes a couple of steps
+forward and adds **estimates**, **expenses tracker** and
+**recurring invoices**.
+
+The thing holding this website back in my opinion is this bulky feeling that
+there is too much unnececary junk there. First off upon going to the page, user
+is presented with a landing screen with **Subscribe Now** and **Try It Free**
+buttons. This step is not necesary in my opinion. If I got on your page from
+google, I probably want to just create an invoice. This will make a lot of
+users leave right then and there.
+
+Then I need to create an account to even get in the app part of the website.
+I did that but when I clicked on **Create Account** there was a good 5 seconds
+delay until I finally got to the desired **create new invoice page**.
+
+Form itself was **not very responsive**. Felt like a big task filling it out.
+
+One thing I have to say that is positive is the digital signature on this page
+actually makes you draw your signature by hand _(or mouse more preciselly)_.
+
+There is this feature that lets you **add images** with descriptions to the ind
+of the invoice. I have never had a need to add images in my invoices personally
+but there are probably people that need that.
+
+The application **needs to be tested more** as well. For instance when I logged
+out, It kept me in the app part of the website that is supposed to be for auth
+users only. Then it says something went wrong. I asume that there is more buggs
+on the website since I encountered like 3 of them in the first 5 minutes of
+using it.
+
+### Invoice Simple Pros
+
+- Multiple templates to choose from (four of them free)
+- Can choose any color for the invoice
+- Images in the invoice
+- Signature is free hand
+
+### Invoice Simple Cons
+
+- Very slow and bulky website
+- UX is not good. Confirm modal after every change. Why?
+- In order to download a pdf you need a subscription
+- A lot of bugs
+
+## 3. Invoice Generator (invoicegenerator.com)
+
+[Invoice Generator](https://invoicegenerator.com) is another good option
+for small to medium businesses. It resembles invoice-generator.com a lot
+visually. The green style and drop shadows can make it seem like this was made
+by the same person. What invoicegenerator.com does a tad better is allowing
+users to add nice **digital signatures** and there is more details in the form
+such as adresses, client websites and shipping adresses.
+
+One thing that I am not very fond of is the fact that free tier _(no account)_
+only allows invoices up to the amount of **1000$ invoiced**. This is a very
+weird and a **non logical** constraint since it surely doesn't cost the company
+_(invoicegenerator.com)_ more if users add more items in the invoice.
+
+Another big con for me is that that if a user wants to download an invoice,
+the email is **required**. Something that we and invoice-generator.com
+understand is not a very polite thing to ask for like that.
+
+The invoices and other settings are stored in the browser local storage up
+untill the user creates an account. It is **not clear** how the user data is
+stored after one creates an account. Their privacy policy only talks about IP
+tracking and cookies, but nothing is mentioned about sencitive invoicing data.
+
+_If the busincess owners have more details on this they can let me know and we
+will update this list._
+
+All in all a good and solid website packed with usefull features. Visually it
+is probably the best on this list. Stuff lacking is focus on user privacy and
+seemingly weird free tier constrains.
+
+### Invoice Generator Pros
+
+- Good UI
+- A lot of available invoice details
+- Good dashboard with nice charts
+
+### Invoice Generator Cons
+
+- Unclear data storing policy
+- No way to download anonimously
+- Seemingly weird and anoying free tier limits
+
+## 4. Invoice Maker (invoicemaker.com)
+
+[Invoice Maker](https://invoicemaker.com) is a very simple to use invoice
+generating website. The website itself is very nicely designed. Form is simple
+but good enough for any kind of invoice.
+
+This website offers a very nice value for the free, no account tier. You can
+create an invoice anonimously and download a pdf, after which they will
+politely ask for your email address, you can of course reject this offer
+_(invoicegenerator.com could learn something from this)_.
+
+Invoice maker also has a very bih asortment of free pdf and excel templates
+that are surelly useful even by themselves.
+
+Generated invoice looks good, except there is a big ugly
+"Made with Invoice Maker" tag at the bottom. I don't think anyone will see that
+and head over to the website _(maybe I am wrong tho)_. There is no way to
+customize the invoice with the accountless tier.
+
+Everything they did good in the accountless tier, they ruined with the free
+account tier. This one gives you 0 invoices. So while you had no account you
+had more rights on this website. Totally weird behaviour. Why punish me for
+wanting to sign up to your service?
+
+All in all a good experience while not signed in, only thing is that there is
+no way to save your invoices up untill you start to pay some of the
+subscription plans.
+
+### Invoice Maker Pros
+
+- There is a preview you can use before download
+- No need for an account to generate an invoice
+
+### Invoice Maker Cons
+
+- Made with "Invoice Maker" tag at the bottom of invoices
+- Free account tier totally useless
+- No invoice saving untill a paid tier
+
+## 5. Invoice Fly (invoicefly.com)
+
+As a wise man once said in a French accent _"I am not impressed by your
+performance"_. This is a good way to describe my experience with
+[Invoice Fly](https://invoicefly.com).
+
+So from the get go, upon entering the url, there is a **landing page**. In my
+opinion this is never a good thing if we are talking about software that is
+just supposed to be a **simple feature**.
+
+When I clicked on "create an invoice" button, they required me to create an
+account. I did it and created an account using the Google provider. After this
+I got to the screen that told me to wait "Just a second...". I don't know how
+many seconds are there in "just one" but I am stuck here for maybe 15 minutes
+as of writing this blog.
+
+After waiting some more I decide to refresh the page. A couple of minutes later
+we were in. They should definetely change the "Just a second..." title of the
+waiting page.
+
+So when I got in the app itself I got presented with **a tutorial**. The
+interactive type, one that goes like: "Click on this and then fill this out".
+I don't think it is a good sign when you create a tutorial for a feature that
+is a **glorified form**. Something must be wrong here.
+
+I will be honest, app itselft is not that bad. I don't like how every field I
+have to fill opens up another modal - totally not nececary. But beggars can't
+be choosers at this point.
+
+There is this whole video tutorial section with some guy named "Mark"
+explaining to users how to use the application. I don't really trust this guy,
+he seems to be in front of a green screen, but anyways these guys are really
+big on tutorials. The whole website tries to be more than it needs to be in my
+opinion.
+
+Oh and by the way, downloading the invoice as a pdf is **not free**.
+
+Feel of the website is very bulky and slow. I have a suspission that they are
+taking my clients data, asking for non necessary information about them. I
+would want to know how my invoicing data is stored and other policies about
+privacy but **there is no obvious way of reading the privacy policy**.
+
+### Invoice Fly Pros
+
+- Nice looking
+- A lot of templates it seems
+
+### Invoice Fly Cons
+
+- No accountless tier
+- Very slow and bulky
+- There is a landing page
+- Downloading a pdf is not free
+- No privacy policy
+
+## 6. Free Invoice Generator
+
+[Free Invoice Generator](https://free-invoices.org) is a very easy to use,
+intuitive and fast website. Let me be clear, it is my website and you are
+reading a blog on it. I will try to be as honest as possible. It is my baby
+after all.
+
+Good thing about it is that you don't need any accounts to easily create and
+generate pdf invoices. There is no landing page similarly to other before
+mentioned good invoice generating websites on this list. The accounts as a
+feature doesn't exist yet. It is planned to be implemented in some future
+version if we figure out a way to do it safely and securelly.
+
+Security and data privacy is a big concern for me. This is why you can find the
+whole source code for **Free Invoice Generator** right
+[here](https://github.com/mihna123/invoice). The project is open source and
+will stay open source. Anyone that is wondering if we are secretly stealing
+your clients data can check the code and see for themselves.
+
+There is currently no way of saving the invoice, planned for the future as
+well.
+
+Another thing that is not very good about **Free Invoice Generator** is that
+currently there is no customization options. There might be some implemented
+in the near future.
+
+### Pros of Free Invoice Generator
+
+- Easy to use
+- No account needed
+- Open Source
+
+### Cons of Free Invoice Generator
+
+- No way of saving the invoices
+- No customization
+
+## 7. Make Invoice App (makeinvoiceapp.com)
+
+[Make Invoice App](https://makeinvoiceapp.com) is very different in terms of
+style from the rest. There is a live preview on the right side that allows the
+user to see excactly how the invoice will look like.
+
+Refreshing thing about this application is that there are **no actual
+accounts**. Everything you need is avaiable right then and there, just by
+entering the website.
+
+One thing about the design that I don't really like is that the form is **not
+very compact.** I needed to scroll down quite a bit down in order to finish it.
+Then I needed to scroll all the way up in order to actually download the pdf.
+
+I must say that the pdf generating part _(the most important feature)_ **does
+not work well**. I entered one line item and a couple of business details and
+they did not apear on the final pdf. Very sad for a promising application like
+this one. I hope that the developer will try and fix this soon.
+
+All in all the idea behind this website is pure and good. You can see that the
+developer wanted to create a good user experience that would solve one problem
+and solve it good. But of course the most important part of the process is
+broken as of writing this blog so we cannot put this application any higher
+than this.
+
+_Developer can reach out to me when the bug is fixed, maybe we will put the app
+higher then_.
+
+### Pros of Make Invoice App
+
+- Easy to use
+- No account needed
+- Live invoice preview
+
+### Cons of Make Invoice App
+
+- PDF generation is broken
+- No way to store the invoices
+
+## 8. Zoho.com Invoice Generator
+
+As far as invoice generating as a side feature on larger websites goes, this
+[Zoho.com](https://www.zoho.com/us/invoice/free-invoice-generator.html) one is
+pretty good in my opinion.
+
+You can generate an invoice and download it as a pdf easily. You have three
+templates at your disposal plus a couple of colours you can mix in. There is no
+obvious way of saving your invoices, you might need to create an account for
+that but honestly I was too lazy and was afraid of invoking zohos automatic
+marketing emails.
+
+One thing I will say that I don't like is similar to **Invoice Maker**, putting
+your tag on the bottom of the freely generated invoices. Nobody wants to see
+that, I promise. Especially clients, why would they need to care how I created
+my invoice? It is not professional.
+
+I like this app, it gets the job done if you can handle the shame of their tag
+at the bottom of your invoices.
+
+### Pros of Zoho.com's Invoice Generator
+
+- Simple to use
+- No account needed
+- Good customization options
+
+### Cons of Zoho.com's Invoice Generator
+
+- Company tag at the bottom of invoices
+- No way to save invoices in the accountless tier
+
+## 9. Any spreadsheet software
+
+This is not a website but I wanted to mention that any type of spreadsheet
+software will most probably get the job done. Most of these excel like apps
+can export a part of the spreadsheet as a pdf. I recomend the
+[libre office](https://www.libreoffice.org/) one since it is totaly free to use
+**offline** and is open source.
+
+At the end of the day, a invoice is just a table, spreadsheet software is
+preety much built for stuff like this.
+
+### Pros of spreadsheet software
+
+- Unlimited potential, people write games in excel
+- Free software available to use offline
+- Totaly private and secure if used offline
+
+### Cons of spreadsheet software
+
+- Might be complicated to use for older users
+- Might be too big of a hammer for simple invoices
+
+## 10. Canva, Figma, Adobe Design Software
+
+Last but surely least is all the different "design" software. This category
+includes all the software that looks and feels like Canva.
+
+You maybe typed into google "generate invoices" or something similar and got
+a link to one of these apps titled "Invoice Template" or similar.
+
+I don't recommend these types of apps. Figma is owned by Adobe as of writing
+this blog and I am not sure about canva but there are good reasons to avoid
+this software at least for tasks such as creating a simple invoice:
+
+1. Adobe is notorious for spying on its users, your sensitive data is not safe.
+2. Canva is privately funded, not safe either. Wouldn't trust them.
+3. These websites are too junky and heavy for such a trivial task anyway.
+
+Figma will require you to open up an account and Canva will have limited usage
+accountless. Don't bother with these software in my opinion. If you really want
+this level of controll, I would go for something like
+[Inkscape](https://inkscape.org/). It is open source and runs on your machine.
+
+## Closing words
+
+Thanks for reading up untill the end. Hope it was worth it for you and that I
+helped you pick the right invoicing software for your needs. If you have any
+feedback or questions feel free to reach out to me at
+[mihailonvojinovic@gmail.com](mailto:mihailonvojinovic@gmail.com)