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Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

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Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#32

If I give you my bank transactions are you going to collect and sell this?

What do you mean? As I said before Monetal doesn't store or transfer user data, and that's why you don't need registration, it's completely anonymous. It collects just analytics data just for purpose which features are used more frequently and which I can drop. I don't plan to end support for it, I am using it myself)

Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#33

If the developer is reading this, add the ability to take receipt photo and attach pdf. You can cache them in a separate folder of images and pdf. Also allow it to backup to cloud. Our phones these days has huge storage, some reaching 2TB. Space isn't an issue compare to years ago.

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Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#34

If the developer is reading this, add the ability to take receipt photo and attach pdf. You can cache them in a separate folder of images and pdf. Also allow it to backup to cloud. Our phones these days has huge storage, some reaching 2TB. Space isn't an issue compare to years ago.

Certainly not, sorry. My whole data for 10 years takes just ~1.4Mb. I can easy export them and parse, migrate to another device in a second and also make a backup instantly. I like this simplicity as much as this site. If it has an ability to post a photo and video it would be completely different story, right?)

Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#35

If the developer is reading this, add the ability to take receipt photo and attach pdf. You can cache them in a separate folder of images and pdf. Also allow it to backup to cloud. Our phones these days has huge storage, some reaching 2TB. Space isn't an issue compare to years ago.

Certainly not, sorry. My whole data for 10 years takes just ~1.4Mb. I can easy export them and parse, migrate to another device in a second and also make a backup instantly. I like this simplicity as much as this site. If it has an ability to post a photo and video it would be completely different story, right?)

You can easily compress photo to 1kb with losses. But for recipes it’s acceptable. I think you should do it.

Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#36
Hi, nice project, thanks for making it available. I am trying it right now. Could you please add Colombian Pesos, COP, as currency? Do you (or anybody here) know a trustworhty service that process automatically sms and emails with financial info and extract the expense from them? Thanks again.

Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#37

Hi, nice project, thanks for making it available. I am trying it right now. Could you please add Colombian Pesos, COP, as currency? Do you (or anybody here) know a trustworhty service that process automatically sms and emails with financial info and extract the expense from them? Thanks again.

Thanks for your feedback. Ok, I will add COP in next release. Unfortunately I don't know any service to parse sms, I enter every transaction manually, and it doesn't take as long as it seems.

Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#39
post #38

Do you actually run a backend for the syncing? I imagine you’d have to find a way to monetize with enough users if so.

Yes, there is some backend code to support sync between devices and moving data from one device to another. I don't plan to have a big backend code base, it's a bit of outside of my expertise.

Re: Monetal – Free Expense Tracker

#40
post #38

Do you actually run a backend for the syncing? I imagine you’d have to find a way to monetize with enough users if so.

Yes, there is some backend code to support sync between devices and moving data from one device to another. I don't plan to have a big backend code base, it's a bit of outside of my expertise.

Oh, may be I misunderstand you. So far it was ~1500 users per day which is quite small amount considering I don't need to store any big amounts of data. I pay for server and domain myself, I can afford it and don't think it can be overloaded in the near feature.
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