Compare maaya.works vs Tally
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Keep everything Tally taught India. Hand the typing to an AI team.
Tally made every Indian business fluent in debits and credits. maaya.works is the next chapter: the same rigorous books, on the cloud — with an AI team that drafts the entries and waits for your approval.
Free forever for single users · Your Tally data stays yours · Books always balanced
imported to maaya.works3,412 vouchers
Purchase — Sri Venkateswara TradersGST 18% · ₹48,200 · matched to POdrafted
Sales invoice — Anand & Coe-invoice ready · ₹1,12,500drafted
Receipt — Kumar Storesagainst Inv #2291 · ₹26,000drafted
Opening balances142 ledgers · reconcileddrafted
● Books balancedApprove all
We will show you where Tally still wins.
A comparison that only ever flatters the seller is not worth your trust. Below, three of the rows go to Tally — on purpose.
Side by side
The honest scorecard
Same job — keeping a real set of books — judged across what actually matters day to day. Green check marks the side that genuinely leads on each row.
Where your books live
Access
Cloud — open your books from any device, anywhere
Installed on one Windows PC
Who does the work
Daily data entry
An AI-hire drafts bills, vouchers and invoices — you just approve
Keyed in by you or your staff, line by line
After hours
Drafts overnight and on weekends; never takes leave
Waits for someone to sit at the machine
Trust & audit
The ledger
Append-only and immutable — nothing is silently edited or deleted
Entries can be altered; the trail depends on discipline
Provenance
Every entry carries its source, who proposed it, and your approval
Manual entry, with limited built-in provenance
Where Tally still leads
Works offline
Needs an internet connection
Fully usable offline on the desktop
Your CA's familiarity
New — your CA reviews an approval-gated trail
Almost every Indian CA already knows it inside out
Legacy inventory depth
Core inventory, growing
Deep, mature inventory and trader features
GST & cost
GST & statutory
GST, HSN, TDS and e-invoice — hosted in India (ap-south-1)
Mature GST and statutory features
To begin
Free forever for single users
Paid licence
Credit where it is due
What Tally got right
maaya.works exists because of the ground Tally broke, not in spite of it. Three things it genuinely changed for Indian business:
what tally got right
It put real books in every shop
Before Tally, double-entry lived in thick registers and a handful of firms. Tally made debits and credits everyday literacy for millions of Indian businesses. That is a genuine achievement.
what tally got right
It speaks every CA's language
Hand a Tally file to almost any accountant in India and they are immediately at home. That shared fluency is a real network effect — and one we respect rather than dismiss.
what tally got right
It works when the internet does not
On a counter with patchy connectivity, a desktop that simply opens and works is not a small thing. For many shops it was — and still is — exactly the right tool.
What changes
The same books, three shifts later
This is the same move the industry made when cloud replaced desktop — except this time the work itself moves too.
01
From a desktop to the cloud
Your books stop living on one machine in one room. They move to a secure cloud you can open from your phone, your CA can open from their office, and a power cut can never lock you out of.
one PC → any device
02
From typing to drafting
The repetitive keying — bills, vouchers, invoices — is drafted for you by an AI team. You move from data-entry operator to reviewer: read, correct if needed, approve.
you key it in → AI drafts, you approve
03
From discipline to architecture
On Tally, a clean audit trail depends on good habits. On maaya.works it is built into the structure — an append-only ledger that cannot be silently edited, so the books simply cannot go out of balance.
careful habits → an immutable ledger
No spin
Where Tally still wins
If any of these is a dealbreaker for you today, you should know it up front.
offline-first
No internet? No problem
Tally runs fully offline. maaya.works is an online product. If your premises lose connectivity often, that is a real point in Tally’s favour today.
ca ubiquity
Every accountant knows it
The sheer familiarity of Tally across Indian CAs is hard to beat. With maaya.works your CA reviews an approval-gated trail instead — clean, but new to them.
legacy depth
Deep trader & inventory tooling
Decades of mature inventory, batch and trader features. maaya.works covers the core well and is growing, but Tally’s legacy depth here is genuine.
Our honest advice: if offline or CA-familiarity is critical right now, stay on Tally and run maaya.works alongside it — just for the data entry. Move fully only when you are ready. Your books, your pace.
Live today
Bringing your books over
Three steps, no rip-and-replace, and your existing Tally company is never touched — you bring a copy across.
1
Export from Tally
A standard export of your masters, ledgers and vouchers from Tally — your data, in your hands. Nothing is touched in your existing Tally company.
2
Bring it into maaya.works
Our assisted import maps your ledgers, parties and opening balances into maaya.works. A copy comes across — Tally stays exactly as it is.
3
Review & approve
Nothing posts until you say so. You review the imported opening position and the first AI-drafted entries, approve, and your books stay balanced from entry one.
Who is behind it
Built by a team that has shipped enterprise software for 15 years
maaya.works is built by Maaya Software Solutions Pvt Ltd — 15 years of enterprise software from Chennai, serving 453+ businesses across 13 countries. The same people now stake their name on your books.
Append-only ledgerApproval-gated AIHosted in India (ap-south-1)GST · e-invoice ready
Straight answers
Switching from Tally — common questions
Can I keep using Tally while I try maaya.works?
Yes — and most businesses do at first. Keep Tally exactly as it is, let maaya.works start drafting your entries on a copy of your books, and switch fully only when you trust it. There is no rip-and-replace.
Will my Tally data come across?
Yes. You export from Tally and our assisted import brings your ledgers, parties and opening balances into maaya.works. It is a copy — your Tally company is never modified.
Will my CA accept books kept in maaya.works?
Yes. Every AI action is approved by a person before it posts, the ledger is append-only with a complete audit trail, and your CA can be given access to review it. They review a clean, approval-gated record — not a black box.
Is maaya.works really free?
Free forever for single users — no card to start. You only pay as you add more capacity. The point is to let you judge it on your own books before you spend anything.
Does it work offline like Tally?
No — maaya.works is an online product, so it needs an internet connection. If fully-offline use is essential for you, Tally genuinely wins there, and running both side by side is a perfectly good answer.
Keep what Tally taught you. Lose the typing.
Bring a copy of your books over in minutes — free, and balanced from the very first entry.
Free forever for single users · Your Tally data stays yours