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date7. June 2010

Say hello to MoneyBook 2.0

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.

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