ItsDeductible Alternative for 2026 Taxes: Charity Record

Intuit shut down ItsDeductible on October 21, 2025. They haven't replaced ItsDeductible with a standalone, year-round tracker. And while TurboTax Online has an FMV lookup for 2025 donations, its public site doesn't identify its sources or methodology. So whether you spent last tax season improvising with a spreadsheet or currently have a shoebox full of 2026 donation receipts, you're probably looking for a new ItsDeductible replacement. This post is for you.

Three major things have changed since last tax season:

The tax rules around donations changed.
Used-item prices and demand changed.
Several new charitable donation trackers have launched.

In this post, we'll cover both what changed since last tax season and why Charity Record is your best alternative to ItsDeductible in 2026.

What changed since last tax season, and what remains the same

The deduction rules changed for 2026. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act added a floor equal to 0.5% of adjusted gross income (AGI) on aggregate itemized charitable contributions, limited the tax value of itemized deductions to 35% for taxpayers in the 37% bracket, and added an above-the-line deduction of up to $1,000 ($2,000 if married filing jointly) for qualifying cash gifts if you take the standard deduction. That's a lot – but don't worry, our 2026 charitable deduction changes post works through each change with examples.

Item FMVs changed. Prices change (as you know), and so do the things people donate. That's the trouble with legacy valuation guides: they're stale. Tools with old fixtures may offer you pricing on four flavors of VHS camcorder or a small army of cassette players and receivers (and fuzzy dice), but those probably aren't in your donation pile in 2026.

Instead of carrying an old fixture forward, we built a brand new FMV estimate guide from scratch for 2026. It includes 1,846 items, up to three value tiers per item, and 983 search aliases, built from 16,877 price observations across 183 contributing sources. We wrote up how we built it in detail.

Your old data is still retrievable. If you never exported your history from ItsDeductible, you can still request it from Intuit. Our step-by-step export guide covers the request process with screenshots.

What to look for in an ItsDeductible replacement

Before investing in a new charitable deduction tracking tool, here are five questions we'd ask:

1. Where do the item value estimates come from? A tool should be able to tell you where its estimates come from, how it handles price data, and what to do when you can't find a good match for your item. And you need to treat claims of "IRS-approved" value guides skeptically and be extremely wary about prices assigned by AI.

The IRS's Publication 561 explains how fair market value is determined and says the IRS generally does not approve valuations before a return is filed. The IRS doesn't publish a general price table for donated household goods – and putting an "AI-generated" label on a number certainly doesn't make it supportable.

2. What happens to your saved values when an FMV estimate guide updates? Used prices move, so a tool should explain what an FMV guide update will do to the values you already saved. Will the data you painstakingly entered stay put?

Before it shut down, ItsDeductible users reported that values shown for saved items had changed between visits. And Intuit once maintained an article titled Why do ItsDeductible item values change after importing into TurboTax?, explaining that ItsDeductible Online displayed preliminary estimates and that imported values could be updated in TurboTax – an annoying process, to say the least.

We built our guide to be versioned and to keep past entries as you entered them. Our promise to you is that your saved values will stay as you approved them... unless you choose to edit them later.

3. Does it cover the donation types you actually have? ItsDeductible handled four: items, cash, mileage, and stock – that's a good start. But cars, cryptocurrency, and artwork can also be donated, and they have different valuation methods and require other details.

Form 8283 distinguishes among several types of noncash property, and a vehicle donation may also require Form 1098-C. If you pick a new tool that limits itself to clothing and cash, you'll be doing the rest by hand.

4. How does the data reach your tax return? TXF is supported by some desktop tax software – TurboTax Desktop and H&R Block Desktop both accept it, with limits. But other software, like TurboTax Online, doesn't support TXF imports, so check whether the tool you're considering produces legible outputs you can use for manual entry, an export format your software accepts, or reports you can hand to a tax preparer.

5. Can you get your data back out? This is the most important consideration: before you enter three years of donation records, do you know how you can get them back out? Before you commit, see if a tool exports your data in a format you can read, preferably while you're still under the limit on its free tier.

How Charity Record answers those questions

Here's how Charity Record stacks up:

Item values. Our 2026 guide was built from scratch using charity valuation guides, thrift and consignment pricing, resale programs, public sales, and other first-party used-goods pricing. You can read more details in How the FMV guide works.

Of course, suggested values – from any guide, not just Charity Record's – are starting points for your own valuation, never appraisals. Remember that no matter which tool you choose, you're ultimately responsible for what you claim.

Search results for "jeans" in the 2026 FMV guide, showing separate Boy's, Girl's, Infant's, Men's, and Toddler's entries with Excellent, High, and Medium values Search by item name, then pick the value tier that fits your item

Guide versions. Charity Record's guide is versioned. When you add an item from the guide, we save the guide version with that item. When a new guide ships, your saved values stay as you recorded them – no stealth edits or surprises. See how the guide changes year to year for more details.

Donation types. Most tools cover three or four: items, cash, mileage, and sometimes stock. We cover seven.

Charity Record lets you easily track items, cash, mileage, stock and securities (public and private), vehicles, digital assets, and art and collectibles.

Getting to your return. Charity Record Plus, our paid plan, includes:

TXF for TurboTax Desktop and H&R Block Desktop.
Annual PDF and HTML reports organized by charity, form, or date for manual entry or for handing to a preparer. Sample exports show what each format looks like.
PDF and HTML reports for an individual donation when you need to share or print one contribution.

Getting your data out. Charity Record exports whenever you want: annual and individual-donation CSV exports are available on every account, including our free tier.

Bringing your ItsDeductible history over

Once you retrieve your data from ItsDeductible, importing it into Charity Record takes just a few minutes: upload a CSV or XLSX file, preview it to make sure we understood it, and import!

We auto-detect the format from its headers, and you can upload several years at once. Imported records don't count toward the free plan's $500 limit, so you can confirm that your history transferred before you ever enter your credit card. Our guide on continuing to track donations after ItsDeductible covers what transfers and what you should review afterward.

If you don't have your data yet? Start with the export guide.

Tracking 2026 donations as you go

The thing that'll really save you time? Logging donations throughout the year as you make them instead of waiting until tax time.

Drop off clothes at a donation bin? Add the items and pick value tiers the same day. Write a check to church? Record it when you get home. Drive for charity? Log the miles at the current charitable rate.

Charitable impact dashboard showing year-over-year giving Your giving history across years, by type and by organization

Charity Record keeps your donations organized by year and charity – we make entering donations a habit, not a chore. You'll appreciate the difference next filing season, when you can export your data instead of reconstructing records from photos, receipts, and memories.

What it costs

Charity Record is free for up to $500 in manually added donations, no credit card to start. That's enough to try us properly with real records. After that, it's $29.99/year plus applicable tax for unlimited tracking and the PDF, HTML, and TXF exports.

Get started

If you tracked with ItsDeductible, request your data from Intuit to bring it with you. Starting fresh for 2026? You can create an account in about a minute and log your first donation today.

For a side-by-side against ItsDeductible itself, see our ItsDeductible alternative page. And if you're filing a 2025 return on extension, our 2025 taxes post covers last year.

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Charity Record is a donation tracking tool, not a tax advisor. This article is intended to help you use our software and is not tax advice. Guide values are estimates, not appraisals – you are responsible for the valuations you claim and for keeping supporting records. For questions about deduction eligibility or documentation requirements, consult a tax professional.

ItsDeductible is a trademark of Intuit Inc. Charity Record is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Intuit.