Rechnio is the invoicing app for freelancers, tradespeople and small businesses in Germany. Compliant with EN 16931, with VAT returns and an accountant export — and no server and no account behind it.
3 invoices per month free · no account required · cancel any time
Current screenshots from Rechnio — every screen you actually use.
No accounting degree, no thirteen modules — just what you actually bill.
From the first line item to the VAT return — without add-on modules.
Invoices, quotes, orders, partial invoices, delivery notes, credit notes, cancellations and dunning letters.
XRechnung (XML) and ZUGFeRD (PDF/A-3) per EN 16931 — the mandatory format for public-sector clients.
Read incoming XRechnung and ZUGFeRD files and book them straight as an expense.
Photo or PDF: merchant, date, amount and VAT rate are recognised offline and pre-filled.
Income, expenses, profit and the German VAT boxes 81 / 86 / 66 / 83 for the return.
Import CAMT.053 or CSV from your online banking — paid invoices mark themselves.
Recurring invoices, dunning reminders and due-date notifications.
From classic letterhead to modern — with your logo, your colour, no third-party ads.
Siri & Shortcuts, home-screen widget, Spotlight search and the share sheet from any app.
The e-invoicing mandate, VAT, and the question of where your data actually lives.
E-invoicing mandate
Since 2025 every German business must be able to receive e-invoices, and anyone billing public authorities has to send them too. Rechnio produces both formats straight from the finished invoice — validated against EN 16931 before anything leaves the device.
Tax & reporting
Every paid invoice and every scanned receipt feeds the reports. Rechnio shows profit, VAT collected and input tax per month or quarter — and hands over the figures in the exact format ELSTER expects.
Privacy
Rechnio has no backend. Your invoices sit on your device and — if you want — in your private iCloud. There is no database of ours for anyone to break into, and you need no account to get started.
From download to a sent PDF takes less than ten minutes.
Name, address, tax number, bank details and logo — fill it in once and it appears on every document.
Import customers from Contacts, save services as items. Next time it's two taps.
Rechnio validates the mandatory fields, produces PDF, ZUGFeRD or XRechnung and opens the email with the attachment.
Your data stays your data.
Rechnio stores everything locally and syncs only through your private iCloud. We run no servers and never see your invoices.
Try it free with 3 invoices a month. After that €9.99 monthly or €59.99 a year — no per-seat pricing, no module surcharges.
To try it out, and for anyone who bills rarely.
No account, no credit card, no expiry date.
For everyone who invoices regularly.
All prices include VAT. One subscription covers all of your Apple devices.
What freelancers most often want to know before switching.
If you invoice other businesses in Germany: yes. Since 1 January 2025 every company must be able to receive and process e-invoices; the obligation to send them phases in through 2028. Anyone supplying public authorities already has to send XRechnung today. Rechnio handles both directions.
No. Download the app, fill in your company profile and write the first invoice. There is no login, because there is no server to log into.
It stays on your device. Turn on iCloud sync and it additionally sits in your private iCloud — not with us. We have no technical access to your invoices.
Yes, on all your devices with one subscription. iCloud keeps customers, items and documents in sync everywhere.
No — it supplies them with data. The GoBD package contains every invoice PDF, receipt photos and a CSV and DATEV journal per period. The VAT return you can file yourself using the guided ELSTER walkthrough.
Any time. Full backup as a file, PDF export for individual documents, CSV and DATEV for bookkeeping. There is no lock-in — not even if you end the subscription.
3 invoices a month are free forever, with the full feature set while you create them. No account, no credit card, no trial that runs out.
