Nearly every property management tool is a cloud platform that stores your tenants, leases, and financials on someone else's servers. SealedFolio runs entirely on your Mac or Windows machine. You manage tenants, rent roll, leases, and expenses for residential or commercial properties, and the data stays in an encrypted vault you control.
Cloud property management software means your rent roll, lease terms, tenant details, and bank activity live on a vendor's servers. That vendor can change pricing, get acquired, monetize your data, or have a breach. For a portfolio you have spent years building, that is real exposure.
SealedFolio takes the opposite approach. It installs like a normal desktop app, stores everything in a local encrypted vault, and works offline. There is no hosted account to create and nothing is uploaded unless you choose to import it. Your portfolio is yours.
Per-unit tenant ledgers, a rent roll with collection rate, automatic rent charges, and late fee automation. Works for a single duplex or a mixed portfolio.
Track lease terms, renewals, and expiration dates. Store leases, statements, and receipts in the encrypted vault with on-device document scanning.
Manage residential rentals and commercial properties side by side, with per-property and portfolio-wide reporting, vacancy management, and work orders.
Local-first is a deliberate trade-off. SealedFolio does not process online rent payments, run tenant screening, or syndicate listings, because those require sending data to third parties. If you need those, a cloud platform may fit better.
What you get instead is ownership: your tenant, lease, and financial records stay on your machine, fast and private, with no subscription holding your data hostage. See how that compares on the SealedFolio vs Stessa page.
Yes. SealedFolio is local-first property management software for Mac and Windows. It manages tenants, rent roll, leases, and expenses with your data in an encrypted vault on your own device, with no hosted account and no required cloud sync.
Yes. SealedFolio handles residential rentals and commercial properties: per-unit tenant ledgers, lease tracking with renewal and expiration dates, rent roll with collection rate, and per-property and portfolio reporting.
Yes. Core workflows including tenant records, rent roll, lease tracking, and expense entry run offline. Your data never has to leave the device.