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Money Manager pricing
Money Manager publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the personal finance tools listed alongside it.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
Money Manager plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Source | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where Money Manager stops being free
Open Source, Free
- Expense tracking
- Budget management
- Reports
No paid tier on record
Money Manager lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full Money Manager feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Core
- Expense tracking
- Budget tracking
- Reporting
- Multi-currency support
Integrations
- Import/Export
- CSV
Platform
- Windows support
- Mac support
- Linux support
- IOS support
- Android support
People bring Money Manager in for free desktop personal finance tracking on windows, macos and linux, running a portable personal accounts file from removable media on windows, categorising spending and reporting on personal accounts without a subscription. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Money Manager are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Personal Finance
Too few personal finance tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Money Manager (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Copilot Money | Free | freemium | - | vs Money Manager |
| Cash App | Free | free | - | vs Money Manager |
| Apple Pay | Free | free | - | vs Money Manager |
| Betterment | $5/month | subscription | - | vs Money Manager |
| Charles Schwab | On request | transaction | - | vs Money Manager |
| Acorns | On request | subscription | - | vs Money Manager |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Money Manager badges page.
Before you pay for Money Manager
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Money Manager runs on windows, mac, linux, ios, android, and is published by Money Manager Ex of Open Source Community. The full record is on the Money Manager review, and the rest of the category is under best personal finance tools.
Money Manager pricing questions
- How much does Money Manager cost?
- Money Manager publishes a single tier, Open Source, at Free.
- Does Money Manager have a free plan?
- Yes. The Open Source tier costs nothing and covers expense tracking, budget management, reports.
- Which personal finance tools can I use without paying?
- 4 of the 8 personal finance tools listed alongside Money Manager have a free tier: Copilot Money, Cash App, Apple Pay, Coinbase.
- What am I actually paying for with Money Manager?
- The record lists 11 features across 3 areas: core, integrations, platform. In practice it is brought in for free desktop personal finance tracking on windows, macos and linux, running a portable personal accounts file from removable media on windows, categorising spending and reporting on personal accounts without a subscription.
- Does Money Manager charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Money Manager prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Money Manager against before paying?
- The closest personal finance tools in this directory are Copilot Money, Cash App, Apple Pay, Betterment. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Money Manager covering price, platforms and features.