Comparison

Financial Cents vs Tidyflow

Financial Cents and Tidyflow both land on Worth it.

Financial Cents

Worth it

Confidence: High

Buy if you run a small US accounting, bookkeeping, or tax firm that wants workflows, billing, and a client portal in one tool.

Worth it

Confidence: Medium

Buy if you run a small or solo accounting firm and want jobs, documents, time tracking, and invoicing in one affordable tool.

Financial Cents versus Tidyflow
Compare	Financial Cents	Tidyflow
Verdict	Worth it	Worth it
Best for	Solo accountants & bookkeepers	Small accounting and bookkeeping firms
Who it's not for	Large firms needing Karbon/CCH-scale depth	Mid-size firms . Karbon is the category leader there
Privacy	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.^⁴	No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.
Support quality	No evidence in sources reviewed	No support evidence in sources
Public sentiment	Small-firm reviewers rate it ~4.8/5 and praise ease of use, while Redditors treat it as the cheaper TaxDome alternative for tax and bookkeeping shops.	Independent reviews are scarce but positive: 4.7/5 on Capterra and 4.8/5 on SoftwareAdvice, with ease of use the recurring praise.¹⁵
Biggest gotcha	Per-user model: every new hire increases the bill^²	Searching reviews is messy: a cleaning app and R package share the name

Mid-size firms . Karbon is the category leader there
Any non-accounting business (the name-alike cleaning app is a different product)
Large firms with admin-heavy custom processes
Buyers who demand large volumes of verified third-party reviews