July 11th, 2008
Buy It: $4.99
LITE: IT’S FREE
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
PocketMoney is the #1 Finance app in several countries, and hit #2 overall in Taiwan. We’d like PocketMoney in the top 10 overall in all countries to help more users take control of their finanaces so we reduced the orginal price of PocketMoney from $9.99 to $4.99.
Simple, elegant, and powerful replacement for your checkbook – PocketMoney tracks your finances quickly and accurately.
PocketMoney has been an leader and innovator in the mobile computing industry. Starting with the Apple Newton OS over 14 years ago, on through the Palm OS and Pocket PC.
PocketMoney brings all that experience to the iPhone, and builds on the elegance and power of the iPhone platform to give our users the best user experience ever.
- Track an unlimited number of accounts (checking, credit cards, savings, assets, liabilities)
- Repeating transactions (PocketMoney can auto enter your salary every other Friday).
- Budgets
- Email new transactions to your spouse to keep each other updated at all times
- Split transactions.
- Supports Withdrawal, Deposit, and Transfer transactions.
- Generate expense reports & pie charts.
- Auto-complete transaction based on Payee.
- Turn on multiple currency support if you are frequent traveler.
- Post transactions from MPG, CheckPlease and other iReceipt compatible apps.
- Enter a PIN to protect your data.
- Built in backup and restore over local Wi-Fi network. (Requires SyncDocs)
- Import and export QIF & TDF files over local Wi-Fi network. (Requires SyncDocs)
- And much more…
LITE vs PAID: The free version is limited to 2 accounts and 2 repeating transaction, it doesn’t allow editing of splits, and view options can’t be changed in the transaction register or the edit transaction screens.
LANGUAGES: English, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
What users are saying
Reason I upgraded to 2.0 ★★★★★ by xFREDx
I am a PocketMoney customer for over 6 months now and can’t tell you how GREAT of an App this is. Definitely worth the 10.00 fee, I originally payed 30.00 for it and payed again for this useful application. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who cares about their finances.
the best ★★★★★ by fyz10n
Hands down, this is the best personal finance application you can buy. It is very much well worth the $10 price tag. Well done.
Great expense tracker ★★★★★ by Gonad the barbarian
This app is worth every penny. I tried all sorts of other finance apps (iXpenseit, spend, simplecash, etc) and found that this one is the most intuitive, most robust expense tracker out there. It is a surprisingly mature app, as the developer has refactored it multiple times as different handheld platforms came and went. I heartily recommend the full version even if it is slightly more expensive than other full version financial apps. None of the others measure up to this standard.
4.5 stars – works great. I’ve tried them all ★★★★★ by JohnJ80
Pocketmoney works very well. Especially nice if you use MPG (car expenses) and CheckPlease (free, tip calculator) since they move their data to PocketMoney for the transaction – one entry is nice. The sync works very well. You transfer your transactions very quickly to the desktop and them import them. I used to use PocketQuicken on a Palm Treo — this is a s good or better. I used PocketMoney on the Newton more than a decade ago – and it’s still great.
Tags: checkbook, expenses, financial application
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August 27th, 2010
I’ve had numerous requests for Bank of America’s “Keep the Change” feature which transfers the change to a designated account to help with your savings. Here is a video tutorial on how to use the new “Keep the Change” feature in PocketMoney.
Tags: keep the change, PocketMoney, video tutorial
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August 25th, 2010
“PocketMoney Offers Nice New Update” – appadvice.com
Not only was the review favorable, the first two comments were also extremely nice. I really appreciate you all!
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August 15th, 2010
“…This is a tremendous app that will put all your financial date in the palm of your hand….” – The Examiner.com
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August 13th, 2010
I decided to release 3.0.8 to fix a few of the bugs that were causing some users some issues, and not rush the 3.1 release, although 3.0.8 is getting a few new features that I was planning on being part of 3.1 – Keep the Change, Month-by-Month report for Chart IAP owners, and Document downloads through Safari and Mail from your banks.
New stuff:
- “Keep the Change” added to transfer the change of the current transaction to a specified account.
- Option to link/unlink the id field of transfers.
- Operators are shown for calculations in amount fields when using calculator keypad.
- Update icons and graphics for Retina Displays
- Options for clearing splits and not filling in the amount during auto-competes of transactions has been added under PocketMoney’s Settings > Miscellaneous.
- Photo receipts are backup when using SyncDocs.
- Download QIF/OFX/QFX files through Safari or Mail and open them with PocketMoney, no longer requiring a desktop computer to download you bank statement before you import it into PocketMoney.
New stuff for purchasers of the Charts In-App-Purchase:
- Added a month-by-month report so you can visualize your spending by month. A good way to use this report is to first run a Category Report, then drill down into a category like Utilities, then run the Month-By-Month report and look at your monthly spending over the course of the year. Spikes in your spending will pop right out at you.
Utilities Month-by-Month for 2010
New for PocketMoney LITE:
- Ads have been added to help generate some additional revenue.
- The Pie chart display is now available to Lite users in the Reports section.
- Plus Keep the Change, and Document downloads through Safari/Mail features the full version has received.
Fixed bugs:
- Password screen engages correctly on multi-tasking devices so your data can’t been seen.
- Importing amounts in QIF files fixed.
- OFX import matches more existing transactions.
- Calculator keyboard back for iOS 3.1-3.1.3 users.
- Other minor bugs fixed.
Buy PocketMoney now on the AppStore
Test out PocketMoney Lite from the AppStore for free
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July 29th, 2010
I told several people I was going to be submitting 3.1 of PocketMoney to Apple this week, but an issue came up with the syncing to the desktop version of PocketMoney that needs to be fixed so it is delayed for a little longer. More news to come.
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June 29th, 2010
PocketMoney users recently experienced one of the negative side effects of Apple’s long AppStore review process… which recently happened after users upgraded to iOS 4.0 and installed version 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that among other things fixed some issues related to iOS 4.0, but a very serious bug was also introduced in 3.0.6.
This bug that caused transactions to switch accounts is my fault, and version 3.0.6 should have never have been released with this bug, but it was released and now I need to learn from my mistakes.
The mistakes that are in my control can be fixed to a certain extent with the proper testing, and I plan on adding notifications to my applications so I have a way to directly communicate with customers when serious issues happen.
What I don’t have control of is the AppStore review process, and it is something that after 16 years in the software industry I still trying to adapt to. Typically if a serious bug arose in any of my apps on other platforms I’d release a fix immediately and very few users would ever be affected. But, the AppStore’s “review lag” takes a serious bug is turns it into a disaster for not just a few customers, but for multitudes of customers.
Requesting Apple to expedite the process helps, but still isn’t fast enough. It must be immediate. I’m willing to pay $10k or something to Apple to be able to instantly approve updates. Yes, make us send new apps through the review process to make sure they conform with all of Apple’s guidelines, but put updates post-approval process so we can get urgent updates out immediately.
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June 28th, 2010
PocketMoney 3.0.7 for iOS has been approved – fixes the transactions switching accounts bug among other things. (see this post for details)
PocketMoney on AppStore
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June 24th, 2010
I have submitted 3.0.7 of PocketMoney and PocketMoney LITE to Apple. I have also requested a priority review for the full version of PocketMoney. Apple doesn’t like giving apps priority reviews often, and hopefully they will grant one for PM 3.0.7 even though they recently gave PM 3.0.6 a priority review due to the keyboard issue. I will have 4 other apps in the review queue at the same time so I made it clear I only need PM with priority review and not any of the others.
Fixes in 3.0.7 of PocketMoney
• Fix for the auto complete transactions switching the account of transactions (See this post for full details and workaround)
• Fix for email partner feature causing a crash
• Fix for deleting a split entry causing a crash
• Backwards compatibility for iOS 3.1.3 devices.
• Sub-sub-categories rollup in reports (along with a preference > display > reports to disable subcategory grouping)
• Fixed mime time on PocketMoneyDB.sql backup file when emailing.
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June 23rd, 2010
There is an bug in 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that many users will experience. It’s my fault for rushing to get the fix for the keyboard released for iOS 4.0 and one of the features I added at the last minute was sufficiently tested.
If you are entering the payee to autocomplete a transaction, and PocketMoney finds a transaction that matches the payee in a different account than your current, it will pull the info into the new transaction like always, but the transaction that it matched will have it’s account changed to your current account too. This will cause both your account balances to become screwed up.
There are two workarounds to this until I get 3.0.7 out.
1). Enter the transaction. Then go back to the transaction that got moved to your current account and move it back to the original account. This can be bothersome if the transaction it matches happened long ago or if you don’t know what account it came from.
2) Probably the better solution is to create a new transaction and modify the category field first. This will cause PocketMoney not to try to do a transaction lookup and then you can enter enter the To/From and the amount.
3) If you duplicate a transaction and then modify the duplicated transaction it will also not try to do the transaction lookup.
I’ll have this bug fixed in 3.0.7 and I will also have 3.0.7 backwards compatible to iOS 3.1.3 so that original iPhone and iPod Touch first generation users can continue to use PM.
Tags: bug, workaround
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CheckPlease the most downloaded tip calculator on the AppStore is now available for the iPad for $0.99.