An honest comparison

Write-offs are the easy half of creator taxes.

Keeper scans your bank and finds deductions — a real service. But your hard problem is the income side: platforms that pay late and net of fees, brands that pay short, PR that counts as income at fair market value. Post starts there, with real books underneath.

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Built around your income

What “built for creators” actually means.

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The income side is the hard part

A bank scan sees deposits. Post sees what you earned: platform connections stitch earnings to the deposits that actually land, brand deals get tracked from contract to wire — with a flag when $4,500 arrives on a $5,000 contract — and PR gets logged at fair market value. None of that shows up in a transaction feed.

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Real books, not a list of write-offs

Post keeps double-entry books — P&L, balance sheet, general ledger — the thing a CPA, a lender, or a future business manager actually asks for. A deduction finder produces exactly that: a list. Useful in April; not a set of books.

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Set-asides computed from the whole picture

An estimate is only as good as the income it can see. Post's engine — federal, self-employment, all fifty states — recalculates from your actual ledger as money lands, including the gifted product and short-paid wires a bank feed alone never shows. Math reviewed by a team of accountants.

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A system for the business, not just the return

Deal pipeline with contract upload and invoice chasing, platform earnings alongside bank reality, a free CPA collaborator seat on Pro. Post is what you run the business in — the tax numbers fall out of that.

Where Keeper is the right answer

Files your federal and state return, reviewed before submission
The fastest possible start — connect a bank and write-off suggestions appear
Built-in access to tax professionals for filing questions
A natural fit for W-2 employees with side income who mainly want deductions found

If taxes are your only problem, a tax-first app is a reasonable answer. If the income itself is the complicated part — platforms, brand deals, PR — keep reading.

Deductions are half the math

What should you be setting aside right now?

Try it — what do you make a month?

$8,000/mo

And money out? — write-offs

$0/mo

The math — where your number comes from

Same engine as the app

money in$96,000

write-offs−$0

what's left$96,000

½ self-employment tax−$6,782

standard deduction−$16,100

QBI — the 20% one−$14,624

You’re taxed on$58,494

income tax $7,581self-employment tax $13,564yours to keep $74,855

Estimates, not tax advice — your write-offs and credits shift every line. Self-employment tax is usually the surprise: it’s often bigger than income tax.

The IRS’s cut of that

≈ $1,762/mo isn’t yours.

Federal $7,581 + self-employment $13,564 a year — an effective 22% before state tax.

See your real number — connect in 5 minutesIncludes your write-offs, ½ SE tax, the standard deduction, and QBI — the full math is above. Same engine as the app, reviewed by accountants.

Common questions

Does Post file my taxes like Keeper does?

No. Post keeps your books, computes what to set aside all year, and produces tax-software-ready exports for your CPA or filing software — your CPA even gets a free collaborator seat on Pro. If having the return filed in-app is the deciding feature, Keeper genuinely wins that point.

Does Post find deductions automatically too?

Yes — connect your bank and Post categorizes expenses with creator-specific patterns: the editing software, the home studio, the props for the video. The difference is where they land — in real double-entry books, not just a deduction list.

I have a W-2 job and creator income on the side. Which fits?

If the creator side is a trickle and you mainly want deductions found and the return filed, a tax-first app is a fine answer. Once brand deals, platform payouts, or PR enter the picture, the income side needs a system — that's Post. Its engine factors in your filing status either way.

What does Post cost?

Essentials is $24/month; Pro is $49/month and includes the free CPA collaborator seat. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial — there's no free plan, on purpose: the product is the ongoing engine, not a teaser.