Mark, I'm glad Buddy is working for you. I get most of what you described from my accessible credit card app where due to the rewards paid by the credit card, I charge the lion's share of my purchases. The app attempts to assign grouping categories based on the payee for purposes of providing an overview of your spending. Anyway, I prefer to do the majority of my financial analysis using Money Talks on the computer where I can both write checks and import the credit card transaction file easily for purposes of assigning categories.
It is so nice to have accessible options. Alan Lemly -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M. Taylor Sent: Sunday, December 22, 2019 7:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: iOS App of the Month: Buddy, Simple Help Hello All, I do not know if the app, described in this article, is VoiceOver accessible but I post here for your consideration. Mark iOS App of the Month: Buddy by Simple Help The first iOS App of the Month goes to Buddy - an expense tracking finance app. As described by the developer: Buddy helps you set up a budget and keep track of your expenses. We'll give you a beautiful & detailed overview of your spendings, income, and savings. Buddy is free with a paid subscription model if you want to use the "pro" features. In my case, none of the pro features are ones that I'm interested in using - so the functionality I discuss here is part of the free version. I was looking for a "finance app" with a few features in mind. Specifically, I want to keep track of how much I'm putting on my credit card every month and have a better understanding of where my money is going. So very important features for me are: 1. The ability to quickly add a purchase/expense to the app. I don't want to have to open an App and navigate through 3 pages of options and tap two dozen buttons to add each transaction. 2. The ability to either leave a short note or add the purchase to a 'category' so I can monitor what I'm spending my money on. 3. An easy to use interface where I can quickly find the information I'm looking for, which is typically the total amount I've spent and where I spent it. Buddy accomplishes those things in spades. It's so easy to add a purchase to the App that I can usually have it done before I leave the store, often before I've been handed the receipt. All you have to do is open the app, click a large and obvious "plus sign" button ( + ) and then enter the amount you spent, assign the transaction a category (groceries, restaurant, entertainment etc). It takes about 15 seconds in total. At a glance I can determine how much I've spent in any given day/week/month, and where that money went. I went through half a dozen finance apps before I settled on Buddy, so I can say with a high degree of confidence that if you're looking for an expense tracker, this is where you should start. Original AArticle at: https://www.simplehelp.net/2019/12/21/ios-app-of-the-month-buddy/amp/?utm_so urce=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed:%20simplehelp%20(Simplehe lp) -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/000001d5b92e%24fdf16eb0%24f9d44c10%24%40edu. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/viphone/011f01d5b94e%243b412390%24b1c36ab0%24%40gmail.com.
