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Cents 1.0

MacMage has just released a clever little app that aims to make keeping track of your small purchases easy as pie ($7.99 for that pie). Cents ($4.99 for a full license) sits in your menubar and patiently waits for you to spend some money. Simply click the coin icon in your menubar, and the interface as seen to the right pops up. Enter the name of your purchase and how much you paid for it and you're well on your way to financial independence (priceless). You can also export your data from Cents for importing into your main financial tracking app.

Cents 1.0 requires OS X 10.5, and there is a free demo available though exporting is disabled.

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kungfumaniac

I am concerned about my expenses.

So concerned, in fact, that I don't see myself spending $4.99 on this.

April 29 2008 at 10:30 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Jonathan

Those who don't get this probably don't work in situations where keeping track of expenses is a bit of a task. I travel for my job and need to claim money back. It's fine keeping receipts but the number of times I've looked at one and forgotten what it was for, or sent a claim off with a receipt missing.
Something like this is a very simple app for a very simple task and as such it's one of a growing breed of programs.
For me (but not for everyone) TextEdit etc just don't do it. The idea of having something readily available in the menu bar for a quick entry suits me down to the ground.

So while some may find it a one-trick pony and balk at the price (woo! $5!) I'd say don't criticise it. If it's not for you, it's not for you - that's pretty much the point. Lay off with the sniping. This sort of app development is the future and should be encouraged!

April 29 2008 at 12:52 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
(01)

This would actually be pretty cool as an iPhone app...it would certainly help remind me that I don't need to spend money on nothing.

April 28 2008 at 10:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
starwxrwx

This seems like a good idea -I'm off on a holiday soon and I know I can never keep track of how much coinage I'm wasting on random things (except when my wallet is empty)

April 28 2008 at 9:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Catt

Something like this on the iPhone would be nice. I don't sit and home and spend money I'm out and about so using my iPhone to track this would be more helpful.

April 28 2008 at 8:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
CZ

So it's the calculator with the printer tape feature enabled.

Not getting how this is different or better.

April 28 2008 at 8:28 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben H

Try mini$. Great app and really easy to use. Cross platform also.

http://adoracom.com/minimoney/index.html

April 28 2008 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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starwxrwx

are you crazy? you give your internet banking login details over to a random company?

April 28 2008 at 9:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben H

What are you talking about? I don't recall giving my login internet banking details to anyone.

April 29 2008 at 8:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ernest Liu

Hey Samuel. Yes you can. Cents is actually localized to your country, so it should be using the currency of your country depending on what you have set in your System Prefs.

April 28 2008 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
mikelite

this would be much more useful on the iPhone. Since I stopped my iMac around with me...

April 28 2008 at 5:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Ernest Liu

Heyo. As per the blog on MacMage, iPhone version of this is already in production. Stay tuned!

April 28 2008 at 5:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ryan Schmidt

Seriously... if you are even thinking about buying this or even trying it, check out www.mint.com first. It is AMAZING! It has literally changed my life and caused me to stopped unnecessary spending. I would pay MONTHLY for it but somehow, it's free!

April 28 2008 at 5:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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