A few days ago we released a new version of the Family Finance Tracker application. Once again, the list of changes is quite long. After logging in you can see that quite a lot has changed. We have modified the application’s colors a little to make them more consistent. Split payments One of the most frequently asked questions from users was how to enter operations with multiple categories at once. An example here Read more…
Some history As I wrote several times, in November we released the first version of our money management application. It was relatively poor, it included expense tracking, monitoring account balance, defining custom categories. We invited newsletter subscribers for the tests. The application was not available to the public, because we wanted to improve it as much as possible and collect opinions and suggestions at a very early stage. For this purpose, we even created a Read more…
According to the declaration, which I made in the post summarizing the year 2018, we just released new version of the Family Finance Tracker – home budget application, with creating personal budget functionality. This is a version containing many changes and quite important from our point of view. In addition to budgeting, although it was not planned for this version, we also released functionality of adding cyclical operations, and introduced two new types of accounts. Read more…
The turn of the year is a great time to summarize what happened last year and share plans for the next 12 months. Previous year 2018 was a breakthrough year, as we started the Family Finance Tracker project. The idea came to our heads in April, but we started to work on the application at the beginning of September, after the summer holidays. In general we have quite a lot of experience in running and Read more…
For about two weeks, our personal expense tracker app is now available in public beta tests, to which subscribers of our newsletter have been invited. On a dedicated facebook group, we collect comments and suggestions for changes. The result of these discussions is the published version 0.0.6, containing almost exclusively the changes proposed by you. Below I will try to present the most important modifications. Icons for sub-categories The screen for adding a sub-category has Read more…
Today will be a short entry, rather informative, although it is quite important moment for us. Public beta tests of our personal finance application were finally launched, after more than three months of work. I must honestly admit that, the biggest surprise for me during the preparations to run tests was the amount of time that I had to devote to the process of adding applications to mobile stores. Packages preparation, generation of certificates, signing packages with Read more…
In the previous post, I described the Family Finance Tracker application in terms of functionality. The scope of works of the first version, which will be public, is already closed. At the moment I’m working on refining these functionalities. So I think that the time has come to share with you the information on how, technically, the application has been built, and how it happened that one programmer was able to do a working Read more…
In previous post, I described a few basic, mostly configuration functionalities of the Family Finance Tracker application. If you have not read it yet, I encourage you to read it first. In this part, I will try to show, how you can use the application on a daily basis. Let’s start with the menu: Accounts On this screen, you can define all accounts you want to track in the application. In the current version, two types Read more…
In the previous post I described how we think the perfect app to write expenses should look like. Recently two months have passed since we started development of our own application, which is supposed to meet all these requirements. The time has come when we started our internal testing of our application. We are still running the budget and writing down all our expenses in the Google Docs spreadsheet, but at the same time we Read more…
We started recording expenses about half a year ago. We wanted to reorganize our approach to personal finance a bit, and for that we needed a summary of current situation and getting to know our habits. We had some fears at the beginning. We wondered if it makes any sense at all or the potential benefits will not be offset by the amount of effort that will have to be put into the whole process. Read more…