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Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses

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Post by Nyoxide »

My Expenses is a very simple app to track expenses for one-time budgets.

Let's say you're going on vacations in Italy and you want to allocate $1.500 to this trip. You create a budget "Italy" in 30 seconds and you're ready to go. Each time you make an expense in Italy, you add it to the app in a few seconds and you instantly know you're remaining budget.

I'm bored of super complex apps. Yes, they do a lot of things, but it often takes a while to get used to the app and understand all its features.

That's why I created this app. I want people to be able to track their expenses in seconds, as quickly and simply as possible.

It's available on iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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Post by Nyoxide »

ExpeditKallax wrote: post #2

This looks nice. Unfortunately, I don't have and of the Apple devices so I can't use it. Can you tell a little bit more how long did it take you to build this app?

Thank you very much ! Oh, that's a shame. I hope it'll one day be available on Android too.

I've started thinking about this app a few month ago (around October 2022). It took me a lot of time to iterate on design and improve it, plus I was working on others projects at the same time. I've got my final design around January 2023 and I've work intensively for ~1 month. Then I released it and started working on improvements, new features etc. I'm now satisfied with the available version, that's why I'm starting to share it :)

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Post by Nyoxide »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #4

Thanks I might try this. I gave up on budgeting a while ago trying to account for every cent in a double entry kinda way. However perfect is the enemy of good and I am up for trying a simpler budget approach.

I really hope it will help you ! Keep me up to date and tell me if you have any feedback :)

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Post by toyg »

Well, good luck to you but you're competing in a very crowded field. Disconnected expense-tracking apps are just one step under Todo apps, in terms of number of alternatives... And most users just don't stick with them, because manually tracking every transaction is exhausting.

When you'll start thinking about adding automated bank fees, which is the necessary progression of the concept, then you'll discover why there are so few "connected" versions compared to the plethora of disconnected ones.

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Post by ftio »

This looks great, but expense tracker apps are challenging for me to adopt. Either they ask to connect to my bank, or they ask me to manually enter my expenses.

Neither of these is at all appealing to me.

First, I have no idea who the developers are or what their incentives are. I do not hand over access to my bank accounts lightly. No bank connections. I also don't have the patience to track every single purchase manually. It's really disruptive.

If you can solve both of those, I'd consider adopting. Till then, good luck!

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