For sole traders and contractors
An Invoice2go alternative with no renewal to forget.
The same job — professional invoices, estimates and expense tracking — for a single payment, on a desktop app that keeps working whether you renew or not. $149.95 once.
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First, what Invoice2go is good at
Invoice2go is straightforward and mobile-first, and for someone who only invoices from a phone it does the core job cleanly.
This page is not an argument that it is a bad product. It is an argument that a lot of service businesses are paying every month for a platform when what they actually needed was a program that sends invoices and keeps the books.
The four differences that matter
| Invoice2go and tools like it | Daily Invoice Maker | |
|---|---|---|
| What you pay | A subscription, billed every month or year for as long as you use it. | One payment of $149.95. Updates included. No renewal. |
| Where your records live | On the vendor's servers. | In a file on your own computer. You can copy it, back it up, or move it. |
| Working without internet | Needs a connection for normal use. | Runs fully offline. Invoice from a basement or a rural property. |
| If you stop paying | Access ends; you export what you can before it does. | Nothing happens. The software keeps working and the records stay yours. |
Compared on how the products are structured rather than on price, because subscription prices change and this page would go stale. Check the current rate on your own bill and run the sum below.
Work out your own crossover
You do not need our estimate of what you pay — you have the bill. Take your monthly figure and divide $149.95 by it. That is the month this app would have paid for itself.
For example
At $20/month — paid for in month 8. Every month after that is saved.
At $35/month — paid for before month 5.
At $50/month — paid for in month 3.
And the comparison keeps widening, because the subscription does not stop. Year three of a $35/month plan is another $420; year three here is $0.
Whether you should actually switch
Switch if
You want the invoicing to be a one-time purchase, you would rather work on a real keyboard for anything longer than a line item, and you want the expense and tax side included rather than bolted on.
Stay where you are if
You invoice exclusively from a phone and never want a desktop involved.
The demo unlocks every feature, so the honest way to decide is to run a week of your own invoicing through it before you pay anything.
Questions people ask
Is this the same as Invoice2go?
No. Invoice2go is a subscription service run on its own servers. This is a program you install and own outright, and it is deliberately narrower — invoicing, estimates, expenses, mileage and tax prep for a service business.
Can I move my data across from Invoice2go?
You can import bank and card transactions from a CSV file, and add customers as you invoice them. There is no one-click migration — most people start fresh at a quarter or year boundary, which also keeps the old books intact.
What happens when a new version comes out?
You get it. Updates are included for the life of the product, with no upgrade fee.
Is there a trial?
Yes — a free demo with every feature unlocked, limited by how many records you can save. There is also a 30-day money-back guarantee on the licence.
Try it before you cancel anything
Free demo, every feature unlocked. Keep your current tool running until you are sure.
Invoice2go is a trademark of its respective owner. Daily Invoice Maker is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Invoice2go or its owner. The name is used here only to identify the product being compared. Feature and pricing structures described are general to hosted subscription software and may change; check the vendor's own current terms. Nothing on this page is tax advice.