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Increase vs InvoicePlane
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Increase and InvoicePlane — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Increase vs InvoicePlane: at a glance
What is Increase?
A banking-as-a-service API that now sells compliance and blockchain rails, not just payments
Increase ships a quarterly newsletter rather than a running changelog, so each entry bundles a quarter of API work. The last three quarters have moved past core payment rails into the surrounding infrastructure: managed compliance, entity onboarding sessions, 3D Secure, push provisioning and IP-restricted API keys. SDK coverage has widened to C#, PHP and Ruby, and the documentation was reworked to be readable by LLMs.
What is InvoicePlane?
An invoicing tool spending its whole release cycle paying down a security backlog.
InvoicePlane is a self-hosted PHP invoicing app moving slowly through pre-releases — the 1.7.2 line has been in beta and RC since April 2026 with no final tag. The dominant content is security: the RC credits nearly thirty people for responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities, and the beta before it did the same. Around that, the project has been catching up on PHP 8.2 compatibility and restoring payment gateways.
Increase vs InvoicePlane: editorial side-by-side
Increase
3.8FINANCE
A banking-as-a-service API that now sells compliance and blockchain rails, not just payments
◆ Current state
Increase ships a quarterly newsletter rather than a running changelog, so each entry bundles a quarter of API work. The last three quarters have moved past core payment rails into the surrounding infrastructure: managed compliance, entity onboarding sessions, 3D Secure, push provisioning and IP-restricted API keys. SDK coverage has widened to C#, PHP and Ruby, and the documentation was reworked to be readable by LLMs.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc runs from moving money to operating a bank program end to end. Early quarters added rails (FedNow, Push-to-Card, check transfers); recent ones add the compliance, onboarding and dispute machinery a customer would otherwise build or buy separately. Q2 2026 adds blockchain transfers alongside managed compliance, and flags cross-border payments and lending APIs as next.
◆ Prediction
Expect the cross-border payments and lending APIs named in the Q2 2026 letter to ship as the next quarter's headline, extending the same pattern of absorbing adjacent financial products into the core API.
InvoicePlane
2.5FINANCE
An invoicing tool spending its whole release cycle paying down a security backlog.
◆ Current state
InvoicePlane is a self-hosted PHP invoicing app moving slowly through pre-releases — the 1.7.2 line has been in beta and RC since April 2026 with no final tag. The dominant content is security: the RC credits nearly thirty people for responsibly disclosed vulnerabilities, and the beta before it did the same. Around that, the project has been catching up on PHP 8.2 compatibility and restoring payment gateways.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run together. One is remediation — a large batch of disclosed vulnerabilities being fixed before 1.7.2 goes final, with the advisories deliberately held back until it does. The other is restoration: Stripe and PayPal returned in the 1.7.2 beta, PayPal Advanced Credit Cards in 1.6.4. The project is working back to a functioning baseline rather than extending one, and every tag in this window is a beta or RC.
◆ Prediction
The next milestone is most likely 1.7.2 final with the held advisories published alongside it, since the RC stages exactly that. Three months elapsed between beta and RC, which offers little precision on when.
Alternatives to Increase and InvoicePlane
Other Finance products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Increase or InvoicePlane.
OpenBB
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CloudZero
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Firefly III
Six identical nightly builds in one day, and not a single stable release in view.
TrueLayer
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Recent activity from Increase and InvoicePlane
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoInvoicePlane1.7.2 release candidate bundles fixes for ~30 disclosed vulnerabilities
- 8d agoIncreaseManaged compliance and blockchain transfers land in Q2 ⚡
- 3mo agoInvoicePlaneStripe and PayPal return alongside a security batch
- 3mo agoIncreaseEntity onboarding, 3D Secure and IP-restricted keys
- 7mo agoIncreaseFedNow, Push-to-Card and a Cards Disputes API
- 8mo agoInvoicePlanePHP 8.2+ compatibility
- 8mo agoInvoicePlaneNamed-footer templates and PayPal Advanced Credit Cards
- 1y agoInvoicePlaneVAT calculation fix and automatic legacy-calculation switch for e-invoicing
- 1y agoIncreaseEvent log filtering and check transfer work
- 1y agoInvoicePlaneValidation and setup cleanups ahead of 1.6.3
- 1y agoIncreaseFile links, check deposit images, Apple Pay history
- 1y agoIncreaseOAuth applications, lockboxes and exports
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Increase and InvoicePlane?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Increase is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 3.8 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Increase better than InvoicePlane?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Increase is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 3.8 vs 2.5), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Finance products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Increase?
Top Increase alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Increase alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/increase for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to InvoicePlane?
Top InvoicePlane alternatives in Finance are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "InvoicePlane alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/invoiceplane for the full list with editorial commentary on each.