# Manager.io

> Free offline accounting for Windows, Mac and Linux, with a paid cloud

Manager.io is double-entry accounting software whose desktop edition is free, works offline and has every feature with no limits on data. Businesses that need several users or remote access pay for Manager Cloud, the same software hosted by Manager.io, or run the Server Edition on their own machine. It covers invoicing, purchases, bank reconciliation, inventory, fixed assets, payslips and reports.

- **Category:** Accounting & Invoicing
- **Made by:** Manager.io
- **Website:** https://www.manager.io
- **Runs on:** Web, Windows, macOS, Linux
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 17, 2026

## Pricing

Manager.io has a free plan. Paid plans start at $59 per month, billed monthly.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** Desktop edition for Windows, Mac and Linux: every feature, no time or usage limits and no ads, for a single user with no remote access.
- **Free trial:** 14-day free trial of Manager Cloud, no credit card required.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Desktop Edition | $0 | Single-user software installed on your own computer. Every feature, works offline, no time or usage limits. |
| Cloud Edition | $59 per month for unlimited users and businesses, billed monthly | The same software hosted by Manager.io at your own address, with multi-user access, user permissions, automatic backups and updates. |

Read from https://www.manager.cloud/ on Oct 17, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Manager.io before buying.

## Ways to pay less

- **Pay ten months for a year of Cloud** (Annual discount): Annual billing for Manager Cloud is ten times the monthly price: $590 a year instead of $708. Source: https://www.manager.cloud/terms-of-use

## Key features

- **Sales and purchases:** Quotes, orders, invoices, credit notes, delivery notes, late payment fees and billable time on the sales side, with matching purchase documents.
- **Bank imports and bank rules:** Import bank statements, then let bank rules allocate matching receipts and payments to accounts. Reconcile accounts against statements.
- **Inventory and fixed assets:** Inventory items, kits and locations, plus fixed and intangible assets with depreciation and amortization entries.
- **Employees and payslips:** Record employees and create payslips with earnings, deductions and employer contributions for each pay period.
- **Works offline:** The desktop edition keeps the books on your computer, and a file made on Windows opens on Mac or Linux.
- **Cloud and server editions:** Manager Cloud adds simultaneous users with permissions. The Server Edition runs the same web app on your own server.

## Good for

- Sole traders who want full double-entry books without a subscription
- Businesses that want their accounts on their own computer, usable offline
- Accountants who keep many client businesses on one flat-priced cloud server

## Worth knowing

- The free desktop edition is single-user; several users or remote access need the paid Cloud Edition or a self-run Server Edition.
- The Server Edition page names no price, and Manager.io does not install it for you.
- There is no phone app; the Cloud Edition is used in a phone or tablet browser.
- Bank transactions come in by importing statements, and payslips are records only, with no payroll tax filing described.

## ToolGPA grades

**GPA: 2.8 out of 4**, graded Oct 17, 2026. Manager.io is proper double-entry accounting you download for Windows, Mac or Linux, and the desktop edition is free with every feature and no limits. It works offline too, which is rare here. The catch is that it's one person on one computer, with no live bank feeds and no phone app, and sharing the books means Cloud at $59 a month.

- **Value for money: A.** The desktop edition is free, with every feature and no limit on data, and it's a program anyone can download and run. You only pay for Cloud, $59 a month or $590 a year, when several people need the books, and that covers unlimited users and businesses.
- **Free plan and trial: A.** Free with every feature, no time limit, no usage cap and no ads. The only things it won't do are let a second person in or open the books away from that one computer.
- **Features: C.** Quotes through to delivery notes, bank rules and reconciliation, inventory, fixed assets with depreciation and payslips. The listing names the gaps: bank transactions come in by importing statements, not live feeds, and payslips are records only, with no payroll tax filing.
- **Ease of use: C.** No store rating on record. You download it and start, but it's double-entry books where you import bank statements and set up bank rules yourself, so there's a bit to learn.
- **Platforms and integrations: C.** Windows, Mac and Linux, plus a web version on Cloud or on a server you run. There's no phone app, the browser has to do on a phone, and the listing names no integrations.

These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Manager.io's own pages on 17 October 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews.

## Where it stands among accounting and invoicing tools

- Manager.io's GPA of 2.8 is higher than 12 of the 17 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade, and level with 2.
- It stands best on value for money (A, above 15 of 17) and worst on features (C, above 0).
- Its paid plans start at $59 a month, against a middle price of $19 for the category: 16 of the 16 others that charge start lower.
- On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 16 tools score higher and cost less.

The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/accounting

## Keep it, or make your own?

**Keep it.** To replace Manager.io you would be making live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 2.8 is higher than 12 of the 17 other accounting and invoicing tools we grade. It costs $708 a year.

- You could make: Invoicing, expense tracking and reports: an app builder makes these well.
- You could not: Live feeds from your bank, which take an agreement with each bank or a service that has them.
- You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other.
- You could not: What a company asks for before it lets staff use something: roles and permissions.

A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it.

**Tags:** Bookkeeping, Invoicing, Expense tracking, Reports, Works offline, Self-hostable

## Alternatives

- [Akaunting](https://toolgpa.com/tools/akaunting): Open-source accounting you can host yourself or use in the cloud. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/akaunting-vs-manager-io)
- [Wave](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wave): Free invoicing and bookkeeping for US and Canadian small businesses. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manager-io-vs-wave)
- [QuickBooks Online](https://toolgpa.com/tools/quickbooks): Cloud accounting from Intuit, from a free plan to 25-user Advanced. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manager-io-vs-quickbooks)
- [Xero](https://toolgpa.com/tools/xero): Cloud accounting for small businesses, with unlimited users. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manager-io-vs-xero)
- [Zoho Books](https://toolgpa.com/tools/zoho-books): Online accounting from Zoho, with a free plan and six paid tiers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/manager-io-vs-zoho-books)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 17, 2026:

- https://www.manager.cloud/
- https://www.manager.cloud/terms-of-use
- https://www.manager.io/
- https://www.manager.io/download
- https://www.manager.io/server-edition
- https://www.manager.io/guides
- https://www.manager.io/guides/bank-rules
- https://www.manager.io/guides/payslips

Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/manager-io
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