We hope you will enjoy our latest update and we have much more to come. We’re really proud that our app exists since November 2009 and we’re constantly updating it and we really can’t see an end

MoneyBook 2.0 is finally finished and should be in your AppStore updates soon. We’re happy to show you the new features. We really worked hard for this and can’t wait to hear what you think about it.

This 2.0 update is more than the iPhone app, it’s a whole package. But more about this later in this post. First we take a look at the iPhone app. We fixed a lot of small bugs but we added some much requested features too.

Categories

When we started with MoneyBook, we thought 20 categories would be enough for everyone and we wanted to keep things simple. But we understood that not everyone uses the same categories. Maybe you don’t have a baby, so the “Baby” category is totally useless for you. But you spend much on iPhone apps or songs in iTunes and unfortunately there’s no category for that. And what if you use the “Eating” category all the time and want it on the first place? Well, with MoneyBook 2.0 we fixed all these issues.

You can now fully customize your categories! In the settings there’s the new “Category” section and then you choose if you want to manage income- or expense-categories. Tap on the “+” to add a new category, change the order just by dragging, delete your own categories or just disable them to not appear on the user interface. You have now full control over your categories. You can even rename your custom ones by tapping on the name.

We think we found a great solution for the custom categories and what may look simple, took us a lot of thought and work. But it was totally worth it.

Backup

The second much requested feature was a way to do a backup of the data and import it into the app. This was really a challenge. There were many options to do such a backup functionality. We tried many things like exporting to Google Docs or EMail. But they didn’t satisfy us.
So we got the idea to build our own backup service. This gives us more flexibility and we can combine it with even more cool features (more about this below).

This is how you make your backup in MoneyBook 2.0 and import your data. Each one tap. That’s it.
For an extra fast access to the backup/upload function, we placed the button on the homescreen of MoneyBook. If you read any further, especially about what’s myMoneyBook, you’ll see why this makes so much sense.

The first time you just have to register for a myMoneyBook account. We decided to do this all for free, no in-app purchases or whatever. Just register from within the app. The whole backup happens over a secure connection and we wont look at or touch your data nor will we sell or distribute any of your data.

myMoneyBook

We use MoneyBook everyday and we think that it isn’t really funny to look at some statistics on a small screen, so we had to find a new solution for this problem.
And myMoneyBook is the result.

Imagine it’s the end of the month, you registered all your transactions in MoneyBook, now you just have to tap the up-arrow in the MoneyBook homescreen and all your data is on your myMoneyBook account. Log in on your mac (of course it works in every browser on every computer, but we know you have a mac ) and you have access to many statistics on your big screen. That’s a really nice way to review all your expenses and incomes with great interactive charts and statistics.

Let’s take a closer look at the Interface.

After login, you can choose between three views showing your Data.

In the first view (month overview) you see all your transactions in a month.
You can search through your data or look at the 3 charts below. They show you how much you have spent or earn in each category.

In the second view (year overview) you will find two charts showing you your income and expense over all months and also the transactions in category over the year.

On the last view (account settings) you can change your password, username or delete your account.

Please consider, we have no experience on how myMoneybook will respond when thousand users upload their data at the same time. Therefore have a little understanding if something does not run as it should. Don’t forget this is all free and it’s your decision to use it. It’s still in an early stage, so give us time if there are any issues.

Enjoy it and tell us your experience.

We were so hard at work for MoneyBook for the last weeks that we ate pizza and Mcdonalds food all the time. And no time for making sports… So this happened

Best wishes your developers Mischa & Sandro

Update:
We just updated myMoneyBook. The year overview section now has a list of all transactions of the selected year. This allows you to scroll and search through all your data of an entire year.

Today we’re gonna lift the curtain on what we were talking in our last blog entry. It’s all about our next update and it will be the 2.0 version!

We’re working hard on this update and we included so many cool things that we decided to make this our 2.0 update. It’s almost finished and so we think we’re gonna submit it this weekend to Apple. We’re really excited about this update and we will write a detailed blog post when it’s going live.

No details about new features yet, but we think you’re gonna like it.

MoneyBook has really grown up, we’ve added a bunch of new features in all our updates without losing its simplicity and so with the 2.0 update we will raise the price of our app. Of course the update will be free for all users.

So if you don’t own MoneyBook yet, maybe it’s a good idea to buy it before the price goes up.

1. First you need the 3 states of a button in one image. You can also do it with two, but hey we want a hover effect you know

2. After this you can write some code like this.

HTML
Everything what you need is a a tag between a p tag with the ID “clickable”.

CSS
If your image with the 3 buttons is 300px height so you have to put 100px for the height (image height divide by three)

p#clickable a {
float : left;
width : 125px;
height : 100px;
background : url(clickable.png) no-repeat;
cursor: pointer;
}

p#clickable a:hover {
background-position : center;
}


p#clickable a:active {
background-position : bottom;
}


So that’s it! Let us make this world to a better place with clickable buttons!

So, we just need some time to do it right. In the meantime, thanks folks for all your support, we really appreaciate it!

First there’s the rollover option, as requested by many users. It can be turned on in the settings of MoneyBook. As the name suggests, at the end of every month your remaining money will automatically transferred in the following month.

Then there are those cool new popups. They can be enabled by tapping and holding on a row in the transactions, recurring transactions or even in the history. While in the transaction views it’s used to show long notes, in the history view you’ll get a nice and very handy overview of the month you’re tapping (and holding).

Last but not least, we refined almost all the graphics in MoneyBook. This comparison shot of the home-screen shows it best:

We’ve spent a lot of time and work making every pixel perfect. Now the app looks even more beautiful and polished. We think this is an important point that separates us from the many other finance apps and it makes budgeting more fun.

We hope you like our latest update, and rest assured, a lot more is still to come!

We’re really proud of the finished result. Often when you design something for yourself you are never 100% satisfied. Or maybe in the first moment you like your design, but after a few days when you look at it you get that feeling that something is wrong and not perfect. So we are very lucky that after all these months we still love our icon and we like it even more from day to day!

So app developers should never underestimate the meaning of a beautiful icon.

As I said, nothing big but I use this feature very often. Maybe some of you didn’t knew that it even exists

CSV Export
- already implemented in version 1.3.

Month statistics for a year and for each month in a year
- already implemented in version 1.4.

Support income
- already implemented in version 1.4.

Budget and salarymode
- already implemented in version 1.4.1.

Set custom date for recurring transactions(income/expense) and custom day for the month start
- already implemented in version 1.5.

Password protection
- already implemented in version 1.6.

Open points we want implement but can not say what version
- better control over the categories
- custom currency and language
- transaction filter (by category etc.)
- backup
- improve statistic view
- maybe the return of the glow

Points we will not implement or not in the near future
- multi accounting
- sync
- weekly or daily recurring transactions

All this updates you will get for free! We are not interested to make more money whit f***ing in app purchases.

Ps: in update 1.6 or 1.7 you will get a surprise feature! Please don’t ask you will not get an answer!!

Many of you don’t receive the salary the first of the month and recurring expenses and incomings aren’t on the first day of the month too. So the 1.5 update will address exactly this two issues.

You will be able to set a custom day for your recurring transactions! And in the settings there will be an option to set the start day of your month. For example you set it on the 25th, so your february goes from january the 25th until february the 24th. This allows you more flexibility and budgeting becomes even more accurate.

We’re still working on this update, we want to make it as good as possible for you, so of course we can’t say a release date yet. But we just wanted you to know that we’re still hard at work.