Minty Assets vs xAssets ITAM

Minty Assets is web-based fixed asset register and depreciation software for book accounting, audit trails, journal entries and report exports. It supports component accounting, so parts of an asset can have separate costs, residual values, useful lives, depreciation methods and in-service dates. Listed methods include Straight Line, Declining Balance, Double Declining Balance, Sum of Years Digits and No Depreciation. Its workflows cover IAS 16 component accounting, IAS 36 impairment events, IFRS 5 held-for-sale classification, disposals and annual estimate reviews. Users can preview, post, reverse and export balanced depreciation journals traceable to assets and components. Eight reports include an asset register, depreciation schedule, roll forward, expense summary and journal report. The CSV import wizard maps and validates columns and can create opening accounting history for partially depreciated assets. Journal exports include Xero, QuickBooks and Sage presets, as well as custom mappings. Starter is free, billed Forever; Pro is $9 a month, billed annually. Accountant is $29 a month, billed annually. US tax depreciation and MACRS are unsupported.

xAssets ITAM manages IT assets across licensing, procurement, maintenance, and disposal. Discovery can use the PC Analyser agent or agentless methods including WMI, SSH, and SNMP. Built-in connectors cover Active Directory, Microsoft SCCM and Intune, JAMF, Azure services, AWS, Google Cloud, JIRA Service Desk, and OKTA. Its API provides programmatic access to functions and supports connections to ERP, SaaS, PaaS, legacy, and cloud systems; it can process complex data for import and export to CSV, Excel, or PDF. The hybrid product is listed for web, Windows, self-hosted, and API use. The free IT asset-management instance has no time limit and allows one user, 100 endpoints, and 1,000 total assets, with optional network discovery and SSO. That free instance excludes Intune, SCCM, procurement, contracts, barcoding, configuration, and workflow. The Express Edition additional-user plan costs $60 a month. xAssets was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in the United Kingdom.