Cha-Ching on reverse sale until 1.0 debuts Friday, a new feature announced each day this week

Midnight Apps, as promised, has announced Cha-Ching 1.0 is landing Friday, April 20th, 2007. Cha-Ching is an excellent personal finance management app that I feel safe calling a Quicken killer, at least for many people's needs. Since its beta days, Cha-Ching has featured things like a simplified UI, tagging and other goodies to bring a little fun to tracking one's cash and credit flow, but this final 1.0 promises even more new features. So many new features, in fact, that the company will be announcing one big one each day this week until Friday, when 1.0 will be released for download (in light of this promotion, I tip my hat to their site designer for the sketchup and 'not quite finished' touches on the site). Today's feature: Spotlight Integration - users will be able to search for any transaction or tag from the comfort of a Spotlight window, which means they can also create things like Smart Folders to get a quick glance at transactions without even having to open Cha-Ching.

Stay tuned to Midnight Apps all this week to hear more about the great new stuff coming in Cha-Ching 1.0, but if you're on the fence with whether to purchase, you might want to act sooner than later: now that the app is all growed up, it's going on a 'reverse sale' that ends Friday. Through its time in beta, Cha-Ching has cost $20 and is still at that price - but only for today. Each day this week, Cha-Ching's price will be raised by $5 until Friday, where it will take on its full price of $40. If you ask me, a happy user of Cha-Ching since January when I attended the developer's presentation at the Apple Store during Macworld 07, Cha-Ching is a great value even at its full price, so any day you buy this week will be a bargain. But you don't have to take it from me: you can download a demo of Cha-Ching in its current 0.5.2 beta version to get your finance on and decide for yourself.

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Hiram

They banned me too. You can pay them to test their beta software, but if you're complaining, you're eliminated. Nice work!

April 22 2007 at 6:06 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bryan

wow they banned me from their website just for expressing a view

April 21 2007 at 12:24 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

bryan

At the moment even the basic functionality of this app doesnt work.

http://www.midnightapps.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=383

April 21 2007 at 8:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hiram

The much-hyped 1.0 release is a worthless piece of rubbish. None of the missing features were added. I'll give one example. Many users, exchanging opinions in the now suppressed forums, agreed that when printing, items should be ordered by date, not randomly, and numbers (currency) should be aligned by decimal marker (so that when $123,40 is above $12,30 the commas are aligned, not the dollar signs). Neither of these very elementary features were implemented.

I registered Cha-Ching weeks ago, and I feel cheated. I am quite sure many other registered users feel the same way.

Add the retracted 'free updates for life' promise and the empty promises of great new features and the bad, bad jokes on the website during the countdown to 1.0, and Midnight Apps are easily the least likeable upstart Mac developers to appear in recent years.

April 20 2007 at 6:00 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

William Henderson

I am pretty sorry I fell for this crap and bought a license, even if I got a "deal"

April 20 2007 at 3:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chacha

Cha-Ching 1.0 is now available, without any major new features and still with some bugs, e.g. dates cannot be entered by keyboard but just by mouse.

In addition, the forum was purged as mentioned in another comment above. A mirror is available though: http://0x4d.net/midnightapps.com_forum

April 20 2007 at 2:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

William Henderson

heh 8 am PST and still not 1.0...

April 20 2007 at 11:07 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

william.c.henderson

Confirmed: the forms are going to be deleted tomorrow. The only justification given is that 'it doesn't fit in the new site design'. This is completely ridiculous, and these developers needs to change or be exposed as scoundrels.

April 19 2007 at 11:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chicken

Speaking of the above-mentioned "Donald Trump" feature, a respective screenshot is available at http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/2820/chachingdonaldtrumphv5.png

April 19 2007 at 1:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

chicken

â€¦ even worse, the Cha-Ching forum is going to be removed tomorrow. That clearly speaks for itself!

April 19 2007 at 1:45 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply