A project of Red7en, LLC โ€” Cybersecurity

Your books, kept private.
Encrypted. Local. Yours alone.

There is no "Cloud." It's only someone else's computer.

Bookkeeping and accounting, engineered security-first. Every record lives in an encrypted database on your computer.

Features

Built for the books

Everything you need to track income, expenses, and accounts.

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Complete bookkeeping

Record transactions, manage accounts, reconcile balances, and run the reports you rely on.

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Invoicing (A/R)

Create and print invoices with your logo, record full or partial payments, void with a clean reversing entry, and send statements. A/R Aging shows who owes you, by age.

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Vendor bills (A/P)

Enter, approve, and pay bills (partial payments included), set up recurring bills, apply vendor credit memos, and print purchase orders and remittance advice โ€” with A/P Aging and Cash Requirements reports.

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1099 tracking & forms

Flag 1099 vendors, track what you've paid them, and print substitute 1099-NEC recipient statements at year end.

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Email invoices & statements

Send invoices and statements straight from your own email account (SMTP). Credentials stay inside your encrypted database.

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Reports & statements

Profit & loss, balance sheet, trial balance, cash flow, equity, Schedule E, A/R and A/P aging, cash requirements, budget vs. actual, and 1099 โ€” generated on demand.

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Bank reconciliation

Reconcile accounts against statements, with a history of every reconciliation you complete.

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Budgets & actuals

Set budgets per account and track budget versus actual as the year unfolds.

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Import & export

Bring transactions in from CSV, Excel, QIF, and OFX files, and export your data whenever you want.

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Payees & segments

Reusable payees that remember their usual category, plus segment tags for per-property or per-unit reporting.

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Print checks

Print checks directly from your recorded transactions.

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Built-in help

Press F1 on any screen and the manual opens at that page. Fully searchable, and works offline.

The security model

Treated the way a cybersecurity company would

Notova treats your financial records as encrypted, isolated, and under your sole control.

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AES-256
Database encryption at rest
Local-only storage No cloud sync No telemetry Offline capable Audit trail
Your data, your responsibility

Total privacy comes with total ownership

Since nothing is stored in the cloud, safekeeping your data is on you.

โš ๏ธ Please read carefully

You're solely responsible for backing up your bookkeeping data. Keep regular, encrypted backups somewhere safe.

Red7en, LLC is not responsible for data loss โ€” from hardware failure, accidental deletion, or a lost device.

There's no backdoor and no recovery service. If your password is lost, the data cannot be recovered by anyone, including us.

On the roadmap

What's coming to Notova

Planned, not yet available โ€” details may change.

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Skip scheduled bills

Skip one occurrence of a recurring bill without disrupting the rest of the schedule.

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PDF attachments in email

Attach the printable invoice or statement as a PDF, instead of an in-body summary.

Download & install

Run it entirely on your own computer

Free for 30 days, full features, no account. After that, a one-time $99 license keeps editing unlocked for good โ€” reports and exports keep working either way.

Current version: 1.7.1 ยท Windows & Mac.
The version you have installed appears at the bottom of the sidebar inside Notova.
Already running Notova? Install straight over it โ€” no need to uninstall first, and your books, backups, licence and settings are untouched. Notova checks red7en.com once a day to see whether a newer version is out, and tells you inside the app when there is one. That check sends nothing but the version you are running โ€” no licence key, no machine identifier, and nothing from your books โ€” and you can switch it off in Settings. Nothing else ever leaves your computer. Install from the Microsoft Store below and updates arrive on their own. Email support@red7en.com should you have any questions.

๐Ÿ›’ Windows โ€” Microsoft Store

Recommended. Installs with no warnings, and updates arrive on their own.

โฌ‡ Windows โ€” direct installer

The same app, if you would rather not use the Store. Windows shows a first-time warning โ€” see below.

โฌ‡ Mac (.dmg)

๐ŸชŸ Windows users โ€” you may see a warning or two the first time. Notova is newly published, so your browser may hold the download, and Windows may then show a blue "Windows protected your PC" screen. Your PC is doing its job; nothing is wrong with the app.

  1. If the file never appears in your Downloads folder, your browser is holding it. Edge says "Notova-setup.exe isn't commonly downloaded" and waits for your permission: open the downloads list, hover that row, click the โ‹ฏ and choose Keep. Chrome shows a similar notice with its own Keep option. Nothing is missing and nothing failed โ€” it is waiting on that one click.
  2. Then run the installer. If the blue screen appears, click More info.
  3. Check that the publisher reads Red7en LLC โ€” it will, because the installer is digitally signed.
  4. Click Run anyway.

This happens because Windows tracks how many people have downloaded and installed a given file, and Notova is new. The blue screen fades as more people install; the browser notice can reappear with each new version, because Windows counts each release's file separately. Only ever click through a warning like this for software you trust โ€” if the publisher is not Red7en LLC, the file is not a genuine copy, so delete it and download again from this page.

๐Ÿ’ก Rather skip all that? The Microsoft Store version above installs without any warning โ€” Microsoft signs it themselves. Same app, same licence, same $99. Use whichever you prefer.

๐ŸŽ Mac users: open the .dmg, drag Notova to Applications, and double-click. macOS shows one routine confirmation that the app was downloaded from the Internet โ€” check that it names Red7en LLC, then click Open.

๐Ÿ“„ User Manual (PDF) ๐Ÿš€ Getting Started (PDF)

Same content as the in-app help โ€” press F1 anywhere in Notova.

๐Ÿ”‘  Buy a license โ€” $99

One-time. No subscription. Includes all 1.x updates.

A small ask from the developer

Thank you for downloading Notova. It is written and supported by one person, so there is no analytics package and nothing reporting back โ€” which means the only way I find out what is wrong with it is if you tell me.

If you decide not to install it, or you install it and decide at the end of the 30 days not to buy a licence, I would be grateful for a short email to support@red7en.com telling me why. One line is plenty. Too complicated, missing something you need, the price, you found something better, you changed your mind โ€” all of it is useful, and the blunt answers are the most useful of the lot.

You will not be added to any list and you will not be sold anything. I read every one.

โ€” Wardell Castles, Red7en, LLC