Alternatives to Manager.io
Accounting software for small businesses and personal bookkeeping, with a free desktop edition and a Cloud Edition. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Manager.io
Accounting software for small businesses and personal bookkeeping, with a free desktop edition and a Cloud Edition.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Manager.io.
Akaunting
Accounting software for small businesses and freelancers, available online or self-hosted.
Akaunting is a freemium web app you can self-host with source code available, offering invoicing, expenses and cash flow, but aimed at businesses rather than household budgets.
GnuCash
Double-entry accounting for personal and small-business finances.
GnuCash is free GPL-2.0 desktop software for Windows, macOS and Linux with double-entry accounting, invoicing and multi-currency support, though its interface is dated.
Quicken
A long-running desktop personal finance manager for budgets, bills, investments and small business bookkeeping.
Quicken is paid proprietary software for Windows and macOS, with editions for small business and rental property owners alongside budgets, bills and investments.
hledger
Plain text accounting: double-entry bookkeeping in a text file you own, with command-line, terminal and web interfaces.
hledger replaces a graphical program with plain-text double-entry files under GPL-3.0, used through command-line, terminal or web interfaces, with CSV import and rules.
Beancount
Plain-text double-entry accounting with a strict, checkable ledger format.
Beancount is a GPL-2.0 plain-text double-entry ledger with balance assertions checked on every parse, but no graphical entry and a Python toolchain to learn.
Ledger
The original plain-text double-entry accounting tool for the command line.
Ledger is a BSD-licensed command-line tool for plain-text double-entry accounting that never modifies your journal, but has no import tooling or graphical interface.
KMyMoney
Double-entry personal finance manager from the KDE community.
KMyMoney is a free GPL-2.0 double-entry manager from KDE aimed at personal finances, with investment and loan handling, and heavy Windows and macOS builds.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Fava
Web interface for Beancount ledgers with charts, queries and reports.
Paisa
An open-source personal finance manager built on plain-text ledger files and double-entry accounting.
Firefly III
A self-hosted personal finance manager with budgets, categories, rules and a lot of reports.
Money Manager Ex
A straightforward personal finance program for accounts, budgets and spending history, storing everything in an encrypted local SQLite file.
OpenTaxSolver
An open-source program that calculates entries for US federal and state personal income tax forms.
