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

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Post by Nyoxide »

2143 wrote: post #29

Nice app. Good luck. I use a spreadsheet tailored exactly to my situation. It's not exactly for "budgeting" but it's more of a general purpose expense tracker. It started out simple, but it's now got categories, tracks various bank accounts, investments, gives me useful data for my tax calculations etc. Graphing is built-in. Building new features for new use cases hasn't been too hard so far. And I have hooked up to…

Thank you for the support !

Your spreadsheet seems really interesting, I would have been very curious to see what it looks like. That's a shame it contains your personal data haha

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

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Post by Nyoxide »

jmathai wrote: post #26

Congrats 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…

Congrats, it looks nice !

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

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Post by tikkun »

2143 wrote: post #29

Nice app. Good luck. I use a spreadsheet tailored exactly to my situation. It's not exactly for "budgeting" but it's more of a general purpose expense tracker. It started out simple, but it's now got categories, tracks various bank accounts, investments, gives me useful data for my tax calculations etc. Graphing is built-in. Building new features for new use cases hasn't been too hard so far. And I have hooked up to…

> (by the way, spreadsheet apps have a high power to weight ratio).

What do you mean by that?

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

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Post by graeme »

bg0 wrote: post #27

FWIW, I know this is a simple app and all but the biggest pain I've ever found in expense tracking is no one supports multi currencies. I have literally one option to track expenses in CAD and USD.

Try Lunch Money. Great multi currency support.

https://lunchmoney.app/

It doesn’t work for my brain but ynab also supports multicurrency.

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

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Post by bg0 »

graeme wrote: post #34
bg0 wrote: post #27

FWIW, I know this is a simple app and all but the biggest pain I've ever found in expense tracking is no one supports multi currencies. I have literally one option to track expenses in CAD and USD.

Try Lunch Money. Great multi currency support. https://lunchmoney.app/ It doesn’t work for my brain but ynab also supports multicurrency.

That's what I use but their bank connections are so hit or miss and they always blame it plaid which is not the case.

I'll give YNAB a go

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

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Post by s_k_ »

2143 wrote: post #29

Nice app. Good luck. I use a spreadsheet tailored exactly to my situation. It's not exactly for "budgeting" but it's more of a general purpose expense tracker. It started out simple, but it's now got categories, tracks various bank accounts, investments, gives me useful data for my tax calculations etc. Graphing is built-in. Building new features for new use cases hasn't been too hard so far. And I have hooked up to…

Could you please share your spreadsheet? (without your personal data obviously:)

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

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Post by garborg »

wfg wrote: post #11
ftio wrote: post #9

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 ma…

>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 any more smoothies for the next 11 days, but go ahead and rent more movies soon -- use it or lose it!".)

I see gnucash mentioned as an option for ingesting downloaded transactions. Any others?

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

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Post by speg »

jmathai wrote: post #26

Congrats 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…

That’s awesome. One of our New Year’s resolutions was to track our expenses and budget better this year so after making a spreadsheet in January, I wrote a simple Django app last week to import our transactions and start categorizing them. Perhaps I should’ve done a bit more market research, and looked into things like this!

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

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Post by m3kw9 »

2143 wrote: post #29

Nice app. Good luck. I use a spreadsheet tailored exactly to my situation. It's not exactly for "budgeting" but it's more of a general purpose expense tracker. It started out simple, but it's now got categories, tracks various bank accounts, investments, gives me useful data for my tax calculations etc. Graphing is built-in. Building new features for new use cases hasn't been too hard so far. And I have hooked up to…

Same here, takes a bit of work but it can be exactly what you want if you are interested in excel formulas. They are pretty powerful
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