An honest look at where SoloDesq wins, where it does not, and which app fits depending on how you actually work. Figures read off each company’s own pricing page. The date each figure was last checked is in its footnote.
| SoloDesq | Hurdlr | MileIQ | Everlance | HoneyBook | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per month | $14.99 | $9.99* | $13.99 | $19.99† | $36‡ |
| Business expenses | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mileage | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Invoicing | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Clients | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Quarterly tax estimates | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Free tier | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sends invoices from your own email | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Works with no account | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
* Hurdlr Premium, $9.99/month month-to-month; Hurdlr also sells a $100/year plan ($8.33/month). Hurdlr’s marketing site has no pricing page — hurdlr.com/pricing redirects to its home page — but Hurdlr publishes these figures in its own help centre, last updated November 2023. The invoicing check refers to Hurdlr Pro at $200/year, billed annually. Source: university.hurdlr.com, accessed 2026-08-29.
† Everlance Professional, $19.99/month or $119.99/year. It also includes a tax filing service and a $1M audit defense that SoloDesq does not offer. Starter is $10.99/month. Source: everlance.com/pricing, accessed 2026-08-29.
‡ HoneyBook Starter, $36/month month-to-month, or $29/month billed yearly. Essentials $59 ($49 yearly), Premium $129 ($109 yearly). The $49 and $109 sat under a promotional banner and will revert. Source: honeybook.com/pricing, accessed 2026-08-29.
The big-name accounting suites sell solo plans that are not broken out in the table above. On the date checked, one of them ran a permanently free tier capped at 2 invoices, 2 receipts and 5 mileage trips per month, with its entry paid plan listed at $20/month — discounted to $10/month for the first three months, which is the number shown first on its own page. We quote list, as everywhere else here. Source: quickbooks.intuit.com/solopreneur, accessed 2026-09-03.
This is the part most comparison pages leave out, which is exactly why most comparison pages are not worth reading.
Two of these are things no competitor on this page offers at all, and they are not features so much as decisions about how the product treats you.
A permanent free tier. Hurdlr, MileIQ and Everlance all have one; SoloDesq does not. What we offer instead is thirty days of the full app with no credit card — only receipt text recognition and the AI features need an account — and if you stop paying, paid screens lock but your data does not: export and delete stay open, and you can restore your purchase.
The big-name accounting suites’ solo plans belong on that list too. On the date we checked, one of them ran a permanently free tier — capped at 2 invoices, 2 receipts and 5 mileage trips a month — next to a paid solo plan listed at $20/month, which is more than SoloDesq charges. If those caps fit how much you actually invoice, that free tier costs you nothing. The source and the date are in the table footnotes above.
If a free tier is what decides it for you, that is a fair reason to pick one of them.
No credit card, no account, and your data exports either way.
Competitor pricing and features were read from each company’s public pricing page on the dates in the footnotes above and may have changed since. Check their current pages before deciding. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners.