Where's my finance manager app?
Friday, 19. October 2007, 12:52:19
One of the reasons I am still using a Psion 5 mx was because it's applications. There are so many Psion apps that have not found them ways to modern smartphones. And I mean a lot. One of them is a unified finance manager where I can track expenses, forecast my budgets, monitoring my bank accounts and cash and more. Applications like ABP5, RMR Bank, 5Accounts and Money are among examples of this excellent programming showed by Psion communities more than 5 years ago.
For my personal use, I prefer Palmtop's (now TomTom) Money which is truly excellent in assisting me managing my financial life. It's a simple and powerful app. And supports exporting to other formats like CSV which can be imported into MS Excel for analysis. I've been using Money for years and havent found it's equivalent on Symbian neither UIQ nor S60.
There are some existing app for UIQ3 like Epocware's Handy Expense and Lubisoft's Outlay but they are designed to track expenses and spending only. Nothing more, nothing less.
If there's something close to a unified personal finance manager for UIQ 3, it's Malcolm Bryant's jABPlite. However, it's written in Java, eats a lot of RAM and the UI is slow. It does offer account management and everything else you could expect from a good personal finance management app but it doesn't belong to UIQ 3 in terms of intuitive interface and takes a lot of clicks to do simple operations.
This is another area where UIQ 3 developers can take note and look into. I hope they read this...
So guys, how do you manage your finance using your UIQ 3 smartphone? A spreadsheet?
For my personal use, I prefer Palmtop's (now TomTom) Money which is truly excellent in assisting me managing my financial life. It's a simple and powerful app. And supports exporting to other formats like CSV which can be imported into MS Excel for analysis. I've been using Money for years and havent found it's equivalent on Symbian neither UIQ nor S60.
There are some existing app for UIQ3 like Epocware's Handy Expense and Lubisoft's Outlay but they are designed to track expenses and spending only. Nothing more, nothing less.
If there's something close to a unified personal finance manager for UIQ 3, it's Malcolm Bryant's jABPlite. However, it's written in Java, eats a lot of RAM and the UI is slow. It does offer account management and everything else you could expect from a good personal finance management app but it doesn't belong to UIQ 3 in terms of intuitive interface and takes a lot of clicks to do simple operations.
This is another area where UIQ 3 developers can take note and look into. I hope they read this...
So guys, how do you manage your finance using your UIQ 3 smartphone? A spreadsheet?
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