PocketMoney was designed to do one thing and do it very well – track your finances quickly with the smallest amount of work. PocketMoney will help you keep your checking, savings, credit card and petty cash accounts in line.
Hey, hey – here’s another type of application that lots of folks have been wishing for on their iPhone. A personal financial manager program, and one that already has an established track record on other mobile platforms!
PocketMoney for the iPhone – the 1.0b1 beta version – has just been released by Catamount Software. The program already has a long history on the Newton OS and Palm OS. PocketMoney on Newton and Palm interfaces with many other money-related apps, so it’s easy to get all your relevant information into it – such as tip calculators, vehicle logs, and budget managers. There are plans to bring this level of interoperability to the iPhone version once its beta stages are completed.
PocketMoney keeps the amount of data entry to a minimum and at the same time gives you a great amount of flexibility. Unlimited accounts, categories, subcategories let you track data your way.
My wife is far too clever to let me have anything to do with our finances, so I’ve only had a quick ‘pretend’ play-around with PocketMoney this evening. Its interface is pretty basic right now, but it seems to have a good leve
l of functionality already. And it was able to accurately assess my total worth very quickly 🙂
Here’s some likable things about PocketMoney that stand out straight away:
- It offers some helpful instructions on migrating its data from Palm to iPhone
- It reminds you of how to report bugs and visit its user forums on each launch of the app
- It’s made by a company named after a Puma, or mountain lion and uses the big cat in its logo!
PocketMoney’s product page states that it has only been tested with firmware 1.0.2 – but it installed and runs nicely for me so far on 1.1.1. The program costs $30, which seems quite steep considering the fast-changing environment with iPhone firmware and jailbreaks etc. For that price, the company will need to ensure that they keep the app running on future firmware versions and after the SDK is released in February. The program installs and lets me run it as a trial for now, so I’m not sure at what point you are forced to buy it.
If you want to give PocketMoney a try, it’s available via Installer – and you can go read up about it at Catamount’s site:
http://www.catamount.com/iPhoneApps/PocketMoney.html
UPDATE:
The developer of PocketMoney was kind enough to provide the details on the trial version : Since it is beta version there is no trial period yet for PocketMoney. When I release 1.0, then after 30 days it will display a reminder screen asking users to purchase the software. I don’t stop the demo after x days because it’s users financial info and they still need it.
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