A simple register for any business asset, any industry
Purchase date, cost, current location and who has it - in a colour-coded card mosaic you click to expand, not a spreadsheet or a locked-down asset system. Furniture, IT kit, machinery, vehicles, office equipment - anything with a value worth tracking.
Register - a colour-coded mosaic grid, one card per asset, with stats up top and quick add/search/filter
Insights - purchase value by category, a status breakdown, and a disposed/lost log
A responsive grid of colour-coded asset cards - not the full-width ledger table used by Materials & Inventory Tracker, not a slide-over drawer, not a dated journal.
No page navigation, no modal popup - the card grows to reveal the full record, an inline status/location/custodian edit form, and save/delete actions.
The generic equivalent of the construction-specific Materials & Inventory Tracker and Plant Hire Tracker - furniture, machinery, office kit, anything with a value.
A straight-line depreciation estimate per category, floored at 10% salvage value - see total purchase value against estimated current value at a glance.
One search box matches name, location, custodian, tag or notes; category and status filters and a sort control keep a long register quick to scan.
Total assets, purchase value, estimated book value, and a status split (in use, in storage, disposed/lost) stay on screen regardless of which tab you're on.
A dedicated status and log for assets no longer in service, so purchase value that's been written off stays visible rather than disappearing from the record entirely.
Export the whole register to CSV, or bring one in from a spreadsheet you already keep - plus a standalone HTML summary export and a clipboard-ready plain-text summary.
"Load sample" fills the mosaic with an office consultancy's assets or a manufacturing site's plant and equipment - every category and status represented immediately.
A single click switches theme, and it sticks between sessions - consistent with every other Metre2 desktop app.
Everything lives in local storage on your device - no account, no server, no internet connection required to use it day to day.
No barcode scanning fleet, no maintenance schedules, no procurement workflow - just what's owned, what it cost, where it is, and who has it.
Most small and mid-sized businesses either track assets in a spreadsheet that drifts out of date, or pay for a full fixed-asset accounting module they don't need. Here's how a dedicated, focused register compares.
| Feature | Business Asset Register | A spreadsheet | Full fixed-asset accounting module |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | £0.79 one-off after trial | Free (if you already have Excel/Sheets) | Per-user monthly subscription, often bundled with a full accounting suite |
| Works fully offline | ✓ | ✓ (local files) | ✕ (cloud-hosted) |
| Built-in book value estimate | ✓ | ✕ (manual formula, easy to break) | ✓ (often overkill for a simple register) |
| Purpose-built structure - no drifting columns | ✓ | ✕ (structure erodes over time) | ✓ |
| Mosaic card view with status and category at a glance | ✓ | ✕ (rows and columns only) | ✕ (usually a dense table) |
| No account required to set up, no per-user seats | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ |
General comparison as of August 2026 - features and pricing vary by spreadsheet tool and by fixed-asset accounting product. Not sponsored by or affiliated with any spreadsheet or accounting software vendor.
Asset name, category, purchase date, purchase cost, current location/site, assigned to/custodian, status (In use, In storage, Disposed, or Lost/Written off), an optional asset tag/serial, and notes.
No - it's the generic, any-industry equivalent of the construction-specific Materials & Inventory Tracker and Plant Hire Tracker. Furniture, IT equipment, machinery, office kit, vehicles, fixtures - anything with a value worth tracking.
A mosaic - a responsive grid of colour-coded asset cards, one per asset, sorted and filtered however you like. Click a card to expand it in place and see the full record, change its status, or edit it - no slide-over drawer, no full-width ledger table, no dated journal.
A straight-line estimate based on purchase cost, a default useful-life-by-category (e.g. 4 years for IT equipment, 10 years for furniture), and age, floored at 10% salvage value. It's a planning estimate only, not a formal depreciation, insurance or tax valuation.
Yes - one search box matches name, location, custodian, asset tag or notes, plus category and status filters and a sort control (name, purchase cost, book value, or purchase date).
Yes - export the whole register to CSV, and import a CSV back in (or from a spreadsheet you already keep). You can also export a standalone HTML summary, and copy a plain-text summary to the clipboard.
Yes - "Load sample" fills the register with two rotating sample sets (an office consultancy and a manufacturing site) covering every category and status, so the mosaic and Insights tab have real content immediately.
There's no server involved at all; it works entirely offline and keeps everything local to the device between sessions. Syncing across devices isn't supported yet.