Jumsoft Money - chief accountant in your pocket

Last week, after passing test Apple Great Inquisition corporation was iPhone-app available Jumsoft Money. The number of programs designed to take into account your personal finances in the AppStore is constantly growing, and the selection of a suitable candidate task is quite complicated. A great advantage with such a scenario, stands the presence of a developer creating applications experience such sense for the main system ..

Company Jumsoft especially familiar to the financial manager Money for Mac OSX. On the possibilities of this program you can read on the pages of MacRadar in March this year. Those who missed, for whatever reason, this review, I recommend the link: «Money - family budget under control".

The development of mobile version of the application began six months ago, given the sophistication of the product I had to get a high-quality and ready to work immediately, but without roughness unfortunately not It costs.

Money for running the iPhone, attention is drawn to "tasty" graphic design in the style of "book-usurer grandmother", the program is designed in warm brown colors, widgets stylistically repeat basic application that makes it easy to "switch" between the desktop and phone.

The main window is divided into five sections:

Accounts - largely provides the same features as any other application, creating accounts for credit cards, bank accounts, "investments" with the possibility of tracking the transaction, etc.
Budgets - the budget allows you to plan your future income and expenses. Budget Monitor shows what part of the consumed over a certain period.
Bills - Tab is designed for repetitive operations. For example, payments for an apartment, etc., on the approach to a certain date, you will get a reminder that it is time to pay the bills. The function is not necessary and in many programs to meet, so that is a big plus.
Reports - displays the necessary information depending on the category or for a certain period of time, it looks pretty impressive and very clearly.
Settings - in the performance tab placed guides and categories of taxpayers, security configuration and synchronization.

It's pretty cool to sort through, but every day we will use not these functions. Basic movements will account for payment transactions, as far as is comfortable, let's see:

1) Open the account from which funds will be withdrawn, for example Cash;
2) Click on the + in the upper right corner to create an operation;
3) Select the options transaction: type, date, category, amount, payee. Pa-bang!!! In this menu, the developers in my opinion have made some serious mistakes. Every time we need to select the type of payment other than "consumption", choose the payment amount and the recipient, we should do it in a different menu, as is the loss of a few seconds. Why is it so important that operations of this type are repeated from day to day and time loss for the year may result in a few hours. Especially rough this error is seen on the background of the successful implementation of such a function in the application Cha-Ching, where operations are carried out on the "steps" that eliminates the need to choose, and it is even more seconds.

Another unpleasant surprise prepared for application keyboard, it is stylized interface, which consequently makes it impossible the use of Russian language in the program, it was just the last straw for me and for all his sympathy for Jumsoft I remained on "Piggy-piggy bank" Cha-Ching.

One of the biggest advantages of Jumsoft Money on many analogues in the Appstore, is the presence of synchronization with the host application on Mac OSX, and with very high quality application. Much more convenient to edit information, view statistics, budget on the monitor in 30 inches with a mug of coffee in his hand. Configuring the synchronization takes place as usual, by entering a four-digit code after pressing Sync in Money. Tested over a 15-20 minute variations in both directions with different accounts, I can safely say - synchronization of monetary units to be!

Potentially very strong application. iPhone-version is distributed free of charge, for which a special thank you for developers - it is a wise marketing move, but the shortcomings that have been revealed a little spoiled impression on debut.

Related Links:
Jumsoft Money / AppStore link /
Money / Mac OSX /