July 11th, 2008
Buy It: $4.99
LITE: IT’S FREE
APPLICATION DESCRIPTION
PocketMoney is the #1 Finance app in several countries, and hit #2 overall in Taiwan. We’d like PocketMoney in the top 10 overall in all countries to help more users take control of their finanaces so we reduced the orginal price of PocketMoney from $9.99 to $4.99.
Simple, elegant, and powerful replacement for your checkbook – PocketMoney tracks your finances quickly and accurately.
PocketMoney has been an leader and innovator in the mobile computing industry. Starting with the Apple Newton OS over 14 years ago, on through the Palm OS and Pocket PC.
PocketMoney brings all that experience to the iPhone, and builds on the elegance and power of the iPhone platform to give our users the best user experience ever.
- Track an unlimited number of accounts (checking, credit cards, savings, assets, liabilities)
- Repeating transactions (PocketMoney can auto enter your salary every other Friday).
- Budgets
- Email new transactions to your spouse to keep each other updated at all times
- Split transactions.
- Supports Withdrawal, Deposit, and Transfer transactions.
- Generate expense reports & pie charts.
- Auto-complete transaction based on Payee.
- Turn on multiple currency support if you are frequent traveler.
- Post transactions from MPG, CheckPlease and other iReceipt compatible apps.
- Enter a PIN to protect your data.
- Built in backup and restore over local Wi-Fi network. (Requires SyncDocs)
- Import and export QIF & TDF files over local Wi-Fi network. (Requires SyncDocs)
- And much more…
LITE vs PAID: The free version is limited to 2 accounts and 2 repeating transaction, it doesn’t allow editing of splits, and view options can’t be changed in the transaction register or the edit transaction screens.
LANGUAGES: English, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish.
What users are saying
Reason I upgraded to 2.0 ★★★★★ by xFREDx
I am a PocketMoney customer for over 6 months now and can’t tell you how GREAT of an App this is. Definitely worth the 10.00 fee, I originally payed 30.00 for it and payed again for this useful application. I would definitely recommend this to anyone who cares about their finances.
the best ★★★★★ by fyz10n
Hands down, this is the best personal finance application you can buy. It is very much well worth the $10 price tag. Well done.
Great expense tracker ★★★★★ by Gonad the barbarian
This app is worth every penny. I tried all sorts of other finance apps (iXpenseit, spend, simplecash, etc) and found that this one is the most intuitive, most robust expense tracker out there. It is a surprisingly mature app, as the developer has refactored it multiple times as different handheld platforms came and went. I heartily recommend the full version even if it is slightly more expensive than other full version financial apps. None of the others measure up to this standard.
4.5 stars – works great. I’ve tried them all ★★★★★ by JohnJ80
Pocketmoney works very well. Especially nice if you use MPG (car expenses) and CheckPlease (free, tip calculator) since they move their data to PocketMoney for the transaction – one entry is nice. The sync works very well. You transfer your transactions very quickly to the desktop and them import them. I used to use PocketQuicken on a Palm Treo — this is a s good or better. I used PocketMoney on the Newton more than a decade ago – and it’s still great.
Tags: checkbook, expenses, financial application
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July 29th, 2010
I told several people I was going to be submitting 3.1 of PocketMoney to Apple this week, but an issue came up with the syncing to the desktop version of PocketMoney that needs to be fixed so it is delayed for a little longer. More news to come.
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June 29th, 2010
PocketMoney users recently experienced one of the negative side effects of Apple’s long AppStore review process… which recently happened after users upgraded to iOS 4.0 and installed version 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that among other things fixed some issues related to iOS 4.0, but a very serious bug was also introduced in 3.0.6.
This bug that caused transactions to switch accounts is my fault, and version 3.0.6 should have never have been released with this bug, but it was released and now I need to learn from my mistakes.
The mistakes that are in my control can be fixed to a certain extent with the proper testing, and I plan on adding notifications to my applications so I have a way to directly communicate with customers when serious issues happen.
What I don’t have control of is the AppStore review process, and it is something that after 16 years in the software industry I still trying to adapt to. Typically if a serious bug arose in any of my apps on other platforms I’d release a fix immediately and very few users would ever be affected. But, the AppStore’s “review lag” takes a serious bug is turns it into a disaster for not just a few customers, but for multitudes of customers.
Requesting Apple to expedite the process helps, but still isn’t fast enough. It must be immediate. I’m willing to pay $10k or something to Apple to be able to instantly approve updates. Yes, make us send new apps through the review process to make sure they conform with all of Apple’s guidelines, but put updates post-approval process so we can get urgent updates out immediately.
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June 28th, 2010
PocketMoney 3.0.7 for iOS has been approved – fixes the transactions switching accounts bug among other things. (see this post for details)
PocketMoney on AppStore
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June 24th, 2010
I have submitted 3.0.7 of PocketMoney and PocketMoney LITE to Apple. I have also requested a priority review for the full version of PocketMoney. Apple doesn’t like giving apps priority reviews often, and hopefully they will grant one for PM 3.0.7 even though they recently gave PM 3.0.6 a priority review due to the keyboard issue. I will have 4 other apps in the review queue at the same time so I made it clear I only need PM with priority review and not any of the others.
Fixes in 3.0.7 of PocketMoney
• Fix for the auto complete transactions switching the account of transactions (See this post for full details and workaround)
• Fix for email partner feature causing a crash
• Fix for deleting a split entry causing a crash
• Backwards compatibility for iOS 3.1.3 devices.
• Sub-sub-categories rollup in reports (along with a preference > display > reports to disable subcategory grouping)
• Fixed mime time on PocketMoneyDB.sql backup file when emailing.
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June 23rd, 2010
There is an bug in 3.0.6 of PocketMoney that many users will experience. It’s my fault for rushing to get the fix for the keyboard released for iOS 4.0 and one of the features I added at the last minute was sufficiently tested.
If you are entering the payee to autocomplete a transaction, and PocketMoney finds a transaction that matches the payee in a different account than your current, it will pull the info into the new transaction like always, but the transaction that it matched will have it’s account changed to your current account too. This will cause both your account balances to become screwed up.
There are two workarounds to this until I get 3.0.7 out.
1). Enter the transaction. Then go back to the transaction that got moved to your current account and move it back to the original account. This can be bothersome if the transaction it matches happened long ago or if you don’t know what account it came from.
2) Probably the better solution is to create a new transaction and modify the category field first. This will cause PocketMoney not to try to do a transaction lookup and then you can enter enter the To/From and the amount.
3) If you duplicate a transaction and then modify the duplicated transaction it will also not try to do the transaction lookup.
I’ll have this bug fixed in 3.0.7 and I will also have 3.0.7 backwards compatible to iOS 3.1.3 so that original iPhone and iPod Touch first generation users can continue to use PM.
Tags: bug, workaround
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June 19th, 2010
I just got word from Apple that PocketMoney 3.0.6 has been approved. It should be live on AppStore soon!
[If you are a regular user of PocketMoney, then do not upgrade to iOS 4.0 until Apple approves PocketMoney 3.0.6. ]
[If you have already upgraded to 4.0, then there are a few work arounds....
- rotate the screen to landscape and back and it will update the keyboard so you get the decimal point back.
- copy and paste the decimal point manually,
- save the transaction and reopen it to finish modifying the amount
]
I submitted 3.0.6 of PocketMoney last night with the decimal point fix for the custom calculator keyboard.
I have no idea how long Apple’s review process is going to take. It seems like they might have a very large backlog of apps in queue for 4.0.
PocketMoney now requires iOS 3.2 or later due to adding official custom keyboard support and allowing app to quick launch when in multitasking mode.
Full change list for version 3.0.6:
- 0002440: [Misc.] multitasking support for suspension - resolved .
- 0002434: [Edit Transaction] Calculator Keypad has no period – resolved
- 0002443: [Preferences] crashes in payee lookup on iOS 4.0 – resolved.
- 0002439: [Budgets] cannot change the period from the default “monthly” to any period in the “Daily, Weekly,…, Yearly – resolved.
- 0002441: [Preferences] unlink ID field for transfers preference option - resolved.
- 0002438: [iReceipt] Ampersands (&) in transaction “To” and “Category” fields break “Email Partner” feature – resolved.
- 0002436: [Import/Export] handle amount of format of -$###.## during QIF import - resolved.
- 0002433: [Preferences] if show Tips was one when user upgraded to 3.0.5 then it will be stuck on - resolved.
- 0002424: [Edit Transaction] when add fee transaction, i tap cancel button but added transaction - resolved.
- 0002405: [Transaction List] iPad withdrawal column should be red by default – resolved.
- 0002442: [All Windows] toolbar buttons on blue with purple or coffee themes in IOS4 - resolved.
- 0002447: [Edit Transaction] auto lookup transaction based on payee from any account- resolved
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June 4th, 2010
Korean won users will notice that KRW support is broken in 3.0.5 of PocketMoney. It shows up as a [X]. This is an iPhone OS bug that has been around since version 2.0 of the iPhone OS. I created a workaround/hack to allow it to work in PocketMoney, but it had a side affect of showing KPW sometimes.
Apple fixed this bug in iPhone OS 3.2 (iPad version) and in the upcoming 4.0 OS.
My original plan was to take out the work around in version 3.1 when I release 3.1 for iPhone OS 4.0, but because Apple rejected my first 3.0.5 submission of PocketMoney I had to resubmit 3.0.5 and the version that I resubmitted had the Korean won work around already removed.
Hopefully Korean users will only need to deal with the [X] for a couples weeks until Apple releases 4.0 OS for your iPhones.
Tags: KRW, won
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May 29th, 2010
Update on 3.0.5…. Apple rejected 3.0.5 on Wednesday because it was crashing on start up for their reviewer. I couldn’t reproduce the crash so I sent an email to Apple dev tech support. I still haven’t heard from them, but in the meantime I tried a couple of suggestions I found online from others that were having similar rejections from Apple and I resubmitted it last night 5/29.
Besides the updates in 3.0.5 in this post:
PocketMoney 3.0.5 – submitted to Apple for review
These additional items have made it into 3.0.5:
Fixed:- 0002398: [Exchange rates and currency] remove korean won workaround since Apple fixed the original bug.
Fixed:- 0002397: [Budgets] bi-weekly budgets with monthly & daily limit didn’t calculator the month, bi-monthly, yearly budgets correctly
Fixed:- 0002360: [Transaction List] saving edit transaction when you change the date moves to correct transaction in transaction register. (makes reconciling your account much easier without having to scroll back to transaction you were just editing)
Fixed:- 0002396: [Misc.] Adding the first Photo on a new transaction wouldn’t show up.
Added:- 0002403: [Misc.] added 24 point to themes.
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May 17th, 2010
I had hoped that I could release version 3.1 with the iphone to iphone (ipad/ipod touch) syncing sooner, but I want to make sure I have everything solid first, and also I want the desktop version of PocketMoney available at the same time as 3.1 is released. It’s not far away now, but I’ve promised several people that I would fix the zooming of the photo receipts on the iPhone a few weeks ago so I decided to release a 3.0.5 instead of waiting for 3.1.
PocketMoney 3.0.5 changes/fixes
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Fixed:- 0002182: [Splits] Autocomplete text is displayed differently in Split Dialog and Transaction Dialog.
Fixed:- 0002353: [Transaction List] long memo/category/class in transaction register runs through withdrawal column on iPad.
Fixed:- 0002351: [Edit Transaction] day of week isn’t updating when change the date in the calendar.
Fixed:- 0002340: [Edit Transaction] Color amount field red/green/black based on settings to give visual cue of what type of transaction it is.
Fixed:- 0002339: [PocketMoney Sync] PocketMoney won’t open email partner transactions.
Fixed:- 0002358: [Reports] Tapping the Eye icon while the report style menu is open crashes app on iPad only.
Fixed:- 0002310: [Balances] let user toggle through filtered balance to other balance types (ala 3.0.1).
Fixed:- 0002309: [Splits] Split doesn’t work correctly with multiple currencies.
Fixed:- 0002300: [Edit Transaction] auto complete grabs transfer can’t enter anything else.
Fixed:- 0002337: [Transaction List] future transaction not gray when red withdrawals are ON.
Fixed:- 0002335: [Localization] Chinese input for autocomplete/search does not work.
Fixed:- 0002332: [Account Info] icon setting lost when picking type if account name isn’t set on new accounts.
Fixed:- 0002325: [Misc.] Center Net worth chart on account list screen.
Fixed:- 0002299: [Edit Transaction] auto complete capitalization.
Fixed:- 0002296: [Edit Transaction] iPad tabbing to Amount field shows the number keyboard and not the calculator keyboard.
Fixed:- 0002315: [Import/Export] specified the charset to uft-8 as in the source code of Pocket Money backup web so Chinese displays correctly.
Fixed:- 0002318: [Budgets] budget items should default ot month for the period.
Fixed:- 0002298: [Edit Transaction] link ID to both halves of transfer – make it an option to not link it.
Fixed:- 0002321: [Edit Transaction] Date is saved as 1/1/2000 on OS 4.0.
Fixed:- 0002292: [Edit Transaction] Photo receipts not zooming out.
Fixed:- 0002338: [Misc.] Cannot view entire scanned receipt.
Fixed:- 0002294: [Exchange rates and currency] exchange rates need more significant digits.
Fixed:- 0002293: [Reports] payee report drill down and back doesn’t reset filter.
Added:- 0002336: [Import/Export] add Cryllic file encoding support.
Added:- 0002319: [Preferences] added repeating transactions preference.
Added:- 0002311: [Import/Export] !Type:Invst in QIF files not read. – doesn’t not read in the security code or the quantity, but reads transaction info
Changed:- 0002320: [Preferences] Change Show Tips switch to “Show all hints again” button.
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