My first blog in 2013, Happy New Year! It's
new year and it's time to get organised. Have you ever wanted to keep track of
your spending but never really have time to look into it. Now that we have Android
tablet and phone, entering all those receipts should be as easy as breeze.
So my quest is to look for the best free Android
app for managing your finance which have features such as tracking expenses,
managing multiple accounts (cash, credit card, debit card, etc.), producing an easy to
understand reports, and transferring them to excel (CSV file format).
5. Droid Accounting
This app has a clean looking but I find
it rather dull to use. I'm afraid if I continue with this one, my receipts will
be left untouched again.
Google play store: Droid Accounting
4. Easy Money
This app by Handy Apps Inc. is so great, I fell in love straight away! It
has multiple accounts, ready to use expense & income category that you can
customized with parent and sub categories, bill reminder, you can even take
picture of your receipts or invoices to keep a digital record. The downsize is that
it's not free after 30 days! So I have to ditch it (with great pain).
Google Play Store: Easy Money
Website: handy-apps.com
3. Toshl Finance Expense
Tracker
This app by Toshl Inc. has fun interface
with colours and cool graphics. I was so excited to use it. You need to create
an account with email and password, and you're using their web service. Whatever
you input in your device would be saved online and you could access your data
anywhere, either in your pc, tablet or phone. Sounds promising, isn't it? But when I have started to key in my expenses,
they can't create new account, only cash! Feel sorry to leave that toshl
monster and have to search again.
Google Play Store: Toshl Finance
Website: toshl.com
2. Money Lover - Expense
Manager
This app has very impressive amount of
downloads, operates in many languages, works with over 45 types of currencies
and multiple accounts, add customized categories for income and expenses. It also
has a lot of great reviews, what could go wrong? I hope my search is over. But,
I was wrong, it asked me to input code when I tried to use the feature like add
new account, and asked me to buy the premium version. So I have to ditch this
one also.
Google Play Store: Money Lover
There are great apps like Mint and
Pageonce but they are not available in Australia, why? I felt frustrated and almost gave up until I saw this
app and thought I should give it a try.
And the winner is:
1. Financisto
This app made by Denis Solonenko is so
wonderful, it can create multiple accounts, multiple currencies, payees, parent
and sub categories with custom attributes, place an exact location of your shop,
projects, attach pictures, filtering and reporting, automatic daily backups and
QIF/CSV import/export. Wow! It has everything I want and does everything I need! I ended up feeling
happy when I input my receipts, not boring at all. Kudos Financisto for
making it free! Would definitely recommend this to everyone I know.
Google Play Store: Financisto
Website: financisto.com
Have a good one!
