Programs for personal finance is always cause some confusion. Who needs it? Who uses it? Of course, if you bought yesterday iPad 3G with our intermediaries, today we have planned a visit to the Porsche Center, and tomorrow will come to your party Christina Aguilera, personal finance is a must. But record each cup of coffee to make in the program purchase socks or payments OPSOSu such accounting is like paranoia. But a large number of applications in the AppStore have in their arsenal a category of this kind. Attached Money Journal developers did not depart from tradition and included in the category of expenditure "Food."
The rest of the Money Journal is suitable for the daily management of expenditure and revenue in a sufficiently large amount on the scale of a single person. By means of the program may conduct monthly accounting, salary, various allowances, premium... From insertion data, Money Journal is a calculation for each day and for the whole month. Such an arrangement allows the program to be aware of the cost / income on a certain day or analyze expenditure for the entire month.
Entering a transaction is carried out with the icon "+" in front of the item "Today's Parish / expense", but to hit the button rather than just developers in vain to save space on the used items interface. Next, choose the method of payment (cash, credit or debit card, check or bank) and indicate the appropriate category. Total Money Journal contains 12 categories, suitable for most situations, in extreme cases, you can create your own group, such as "eating the morning meal in the afternoon and the evening meal."
After adding in Money Journal, all expenses immediately be presented as two pie charts on this day and the current month. In total, the program can be used four types of diagrams: for the expenses, income, comparison chart (this month and last) and a histogram of income / expenditure for six months. Switch views graph, you can by clicking on the "Graph".
By Money Journal advantages include a visual model of interaction with the user. All data are presented in the form of a simple calendar on sheets which is the whole mini-accounting. Such a "calendar" approach could complicate the interaction with the application, if not for the presence of a well-designed Search funds by date, name of payment, total transactions with the ability to sort the list by The cost / income. Among the additional features worth noting the export to CSV for the Mac and the PC, that allow you to backup, and the ability to upload your data to Google Docs spreadsheet. A nice bonus for Russian owners of the program will be the interface localization, including detailed guidance on working with Money Journal.
When this review was already almost ready, I drew attention to the currency specified in front of my sums, it was a dollar. So sometimes, for not particularly pay attention to important details that are on the surface. Climbing into the setting, hoping to switch currencies in the ruble equivalent, it was found a list of supported currencies: the dollar, euro, pound, yen. The question arises, why the program "Russian Language", if the "hack" it has no place... It seems we have witnessed the emergence of the first application exclusively for emigrants from Russia.
program page in the AppStore (2.99 $)
Page light-version in AppStore (free)