Cashflow OS vs LiveKeeping

How the two work

Neither app replaces Tally. A connector runs on the Windows PC where TallyPrime is open, reads the companies and keeps a synced copy online. The owner and the team then open that copy in an Android or iPhone app or in a browser. When writing is switched on, entries made on the phone travel back through the connector and TallyPrime creates them as normal vouchers. If you want the mechanics in detail, read how Tally data sync works.

LiveKeeping is made by Livekeeping Technologies Pvt Ltd (earlier Finlite Technologies), which is now part of IndiaMART. It calls its connector the Data Connector. Cashflow OS is made in Jaipur by S. P. Techno Solution Pvt Ltd; its Tally Connector sits in the Windows tray, updates itself and works with older TallyPrime releases too.

Facts about other products are as of November 2026, taken from their public websites and Google Play listings. Features and prices change; check with each provider before you decide. Where we write “—”, we could not confirm the point from public pages — it does not mean the product lacks it.

Feature by feature

Plans and price side by side

The ladders look alike: a read-only plan, a plan for entries, and a plan for e-invoices and e-way bills. LiveKeeping publishes its prices as excluding GST and also shows a 3-year price. Cashflow OS lists the same yearly figures and a saving of up to 25% on a 3-year term; its premium selling modules are priced on top.

LiveKeeping’s pricing page also says Growth is for the admin user only, Pro and Pro Plus include one extra free user, and further users cost ₹2,500 a year per company. It allows unlimited Tally companies on every plan. Ask Cashflow OS for the exact price for your team size and the modules you want, so you compare like with like.

Where LiveKeeping is a good fit

• You mainly want to read the books and chase payments. Its 35+ reports and reminders over WhatsApp, SMS and email cover that well.
• You send greetings to customers. Branded birthday and festival messages on WhatsApp are a feature it advertises.
• You want an iPhone app today. LiveKeeping is on the App Store; the Cashflow OS iPhone app is still coming, and iPhone users use the web app in Safari meanwhile.
• You have many companies and few users. Unlimited companies on every plan suits an owner with several firms.
• Scheduled backups. Its FAQ mentions daily, weekly or monthly backups through the connector.

LiveKeeping’s Play listing showed a 4.8-star rating from about 3,200 reviews and 1 lakh+ installs on 7 November 2026, so plenty of businesses use it happily.

Where Cashflow OS is the better fit

• You have salespeople or a showroom. A staff app shows each person their day: customers to attend, visits, orders and collections. A salesperson sees items and their own customers, never your accounts. See the staff app.
• You sell to dealers at different rates. Dealer types A, B and C with layered discount rules fill the rate on every order automatically (price lists).
• Orders must be checked before Tally. Orders from frontline staff can wait for approval, then post to Tally as sales orders.
• You send quotations, proforma invoices and challans. They carry your logo, letterhead, signature, bank and UPI details, and a quotation converts into a sales order or a Tally sales invoice.
• You want customers to order on their own. A catalogue link and a hosted shop at shop.cashflowos.in, built from your Tally items, with orders coming into Tally (online store).
• You want to know when Tally changes. Owners get a push alert when vouchers are added, changed or deleted in Tally, and a summary of the day every evening.
• Your team prefers Hindi. The app and reports work in English and Hindi, and the website in Hinglish too.

A worked example

Take an electrical goods distributor in Jaipur with one Tally company, an accountant, and four salespeople visiting 30 retailers a week. The owner wants three things: dues before every visit, orders without phone calls, and fewer rate mistakes.

With a reports-first app, the owner and accountant get dues, ledgers and reminders, and the accountant still keys most orders from WhatsApp messages. With Cashflow OS, each salesperson opens the retailer, sees the outstanding, takes the order at the retailer’s dealer rate, and the order waits for the owner’s approval before it posts to Tally. The accountant only bills it. The trade-off is cost: four salespeople and the field and price-list modules cost more than a single read-only login. Whether that is worth it depends on how many orders are re-typed today and how many rate disputes you have each month.

How to decide in a week

1. List who will use the app: owner, accountant, salespeople, store staff.
2. Write down the five jobs they do most often: check dues, send a statement, take an order, make a quotation, record a collection.
3. Start both free trials — on a test copy of your Tally company if you want them at the same time — and try those five jobs with real data.
4. Check that the reports you rely on — P&L, Balance Sheet, ageing — show the same figures as Tally.
5. Ask each provider for a written price for your users and modules for one and three years.

Cashflow OS’s trial is 14 days and LiveKeeping’s is 7, so start LiveKeeping’s second if you want both to overlap. Our guide to choosing a Tally mobile app has a longer checklist.