Takes balls/confidence or just plain ignorance of competition to do just another simple budgeting app!
Is a good looking app!
Show HN: I made a super simple iOS app to track expenses
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#42Re. "disconnected apps": we need a "me-bus (tm)". Any events that relate to "me" should be published, and whatever apps I choose should be able to consume those events. Utilities, banks, home automation... Perhaps even doctors test results... the list is endless. Democratise the data! The potential is huge!
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Either they ask to connect to my bank, or they ask me to manually enter my expenses. What other options are there?
I'd use an website/app that supports my preferred data ingestion process -- periodically manually downloading my bank & credit transactions (supporting at least one of: csv, qif, and qfx), and allows me to define at least (account, category, description) tuples mapping transaction to buckets (ideally hierarchical). (Ideally also a focus on viewing trends at various grains and easy drill down, as opposed to "don't buy…
lunchmoney, recommended in another comment, ticks a lot of boxes for me and supports uploading downloaded transactions.
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#44This 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 ma…
You're totally right, I can't imagine giving access to my bank accounts either. That's why I chose to manually enter the expenses. Yes, you have to think about it every time, but I bet on the fact that it takes only a few seconds to add an expense in my app. Unfortunately, I'm not able to find a better solution yet but maybe one day we'll find one !
I had this idea to basically have the Budgeting app look at the notifications on my phone or emails from the bank to parse the transactions details automatically.
On iOS if an app exposes a Shortcut, I could setup a Shortcut Automation to automatically add an expense when a new email from my bank shows up. Would need some REGEX or LLM ;)
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#45Great design, love the ease of use.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Either they ask to connect to my bank, or they ask me to manually enter my expenses. What other options are there?
I'd use an website/app that supports my preferred data ingestion process -- periodically manually downloading my bank & credit transactions (supporting at least one of: csv, qif, and qfx), and allows me to define at least (account, category, description) tuples mapping transaction to buckets (ideally hierarchical). (Ideally also a focus on viewing trends at various grains and easy drill down, as opposed to "don't buy…
I believe the various plain text accounting tools (ledger, hledger, beancount) have tools that allow for this. I haven't used them as I use gnucash but they may be worth a look.
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#47Takes balls/confidence or just plain ignorance of competition to do just another simple budgeting app! Is a good looking app!
You're right, but as explain in another comment, I've already did it once in another field, so why not ? The only way to succeed is by trying :)
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#48This is very similar to Pennies [1] but I do like your UI better. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pennies-budget-and-expenses/id...
I'm glad you do ! :)
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#49Congrats on the launch. I don’t know how folks manage to consistently budget if they have to enter transactions manually. After trying a bunch of overly complex budgeting apps like ynab - I wrote one for my wife and I (it used to be open for others). https://fiers.co/features/spend I’m using a developer plaid account (free) to download transactions. Works pretty well - we are goin on 4 years of budgeting and it’s bee…
The frontpage isn't really clear. Not sure what the red circles have to do with the text. The screenshots barely show anything, and I am inclined to believe the app is more of a financial independence calculator than expense tracker? Sure there is some overlap but I'm still confused.
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#50Congratulations on the launch. Manual entry is very tricky.
I use an app from Microsoft called SMS Organizer. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/garage/profiles/sms-organize... It scans my SMS and nicely categorizes all my transactions.
Axios (previously Walnut) also does the job well, but it's very cluttered after the latest update. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.daamitt.wa...
Not sure if these apps are globally available.