Search for a free society management app and you will find dozens of products that say "free" somewhere on the page. Some are free to try, some are free for residents, some are free until you need a report. For a committee looking after 20 or 60 flats, the difference matters. This page lays out the real options and the questions that separate them.
| Type | What it means | What to ask |
|---|---|---|
| Free trial | Full product for a few weeks or months, then a paid plan | What is the price afterwards, and what happens to our data if we stop? |
| Free tier, essentials paid | Notices and basics free; billing, accounting or reports are paid modules | Is maintenance billing in the free tier? |
| Free for residents | Residents use it free; the society pays per flat or per plan | What does the society pay each month? |
| Free to use | Billing, payments, accounts and communication free for the society and residents | What exactly is included, and where is our data kept? |
Free, familiar, and how most societies start. It works until part-payments, disputes and secretary handovers pile up. If you are staying on Excel for now, use a proper sheet — here is a free apartment maintenance Excel template.
Well-known society platforms such as MyGate, ADDA and NoBrokerHood are built mainly for large gated communities, with gate security, visitor and staff management and facility booking alongside accounting. Software directories list MyGate as having a free version with per-feature pricing, while pricing for NoBrokerHood is on request; plans are generally tailored to the community. They are strong products where a manned gate and many amenities are the core need. For a 30-flat building, check carefully which modules the free tier actually includes.
Flatra is free for the society and every resident — maintenance billing, water-meter billing, cash and UPI tracking, expenses with receipts, complaints, announcements, polls, meetings and events are all included. It is built for societies of 10–100 flats and does not do gate security.
Flatra is free to use, and that covers the part a society actually runs on: maintenance billing, water billing, payments, expenses and communication. There is no per-flat charge, no setup fee and no limit on flats or residents. Residents pay maintenance directly to the association by UPI or cash, so Flatra takes no commission and never holds the society's money. Flatra does not sell personal information, and data is hosted on AWS in India.
The secretary creates the society in the app in about five minutes, prints a QR poster so residents join themselves, and generates the first month the same evening. The app works in English, Telugu and Hindi on Android and in any phone browser.
If your community has a manned gate with hundreds of daily visitors, a clubhouse to book, vendors to manage and a facility-management team, a township platform is worth paying for — that is what those products are built to do. Flatra is for the far more common case: a small society whose real problem is clean maintenance accounts and trust. See how the two compare in Flatra vs MyGate and Flatra vs ADDA.
Last reviewed: October 2026. Details about other products come from their public websites and software-directory listings and can change — confirm current plans and features with each provider. MyGate, ADDA, NoBrokerHood and ApnaComplex are trademarks of their respective owners; Flatra is not affiliated with any of them.
Create your society in the app in about 5 minutes — flats, bills, generate the month. Free for the society and every resident.
Get it on Google Play Visit flatra.inFlatra is free for the society and every resident — maintenance billing, water billing, payments, expenses and communication — with no per-flat charge. Several larger platforms offer a free version or free tier with paid modules.
Check three things: where the data is hosted, whether personal information is sold, and whether your society keeps its own copies of the accounts. Flatra hosts data on AWS in India, does not sell personal information, and produces a statement PDF every month.
Not always — in many free tiers billing or accounting is a paid module. In Flatra, maintenance billing, water-meter billing and payment tracking are all included free.
Yes. Small buildings benefit most because the secretary is a volunteer: bills generate in seconds and every resident sees their own dues without asking.
Yes, anywhere in India. Any society can install the app from Google Play and create itself in the app.