I've been freelancing on the side for a couple of years. Mostly US clients. And every single time I needed to send an invoice I ran into the same wall.
Some tool watermarks the PDF. Another wants a credit card for a "free trial." Another is so bloated you spend 20 minutes figuring out where to just type the client's name.
I tried all the popular ones.
Wave requires account creation before you can do anything. Fine if you want a full accounting suite. Overkill if you just need a PDF.
Canva puts their branding on your invoice unless you pay. You're literally advertising their product on your professional documents.
Invoice-generator.com clean but falls apart the moment you need proper US tax fields or want anything beyond the most basic layout.
The thing that frustrated me most? None of them are properly set up for US invoicing out of the box. You have to manually figure out sales tax fields, date format, whether to include your EIN. Stuff that should just be there by default.
So I built the version I wanted to exist.
What I built
It's called DocForge a free, browser-based invoice generator with a dedicated US version:
👉 check it here
USD currency pre-set
US date format (MM/DD/YYYY)
Tax fields configured for US invoicing
No account required
No watermark
Clean PDF download in under two minutes
Also built a quotation generator and NDA generator on the same site because those kept coming up in my own freelance workflow.
Where it's at
Launched a few weeks ago. Already showing up in Google Search Console for terms like "invoice generator USA" and "free invoice generator no watermark." Organic is the main distribution play no paid ads, just building useful pages and letting SEO do the work.
Still early and rough around the edges honestly.
What I'm curious about
For US freelancers what fields do you find yourself adding manually every single time that you wish were just standard on an invoice template?
Sales tax by state? Payment terms? Late fee clauses?
Drop it below genuinely building this out and want to know what's missing.
