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First Look: Pocket Money 2.0 for iPhone

by Steven Sande Mar 25th 2009 at 12:00PM

It always makes me happy to see a familiar name on a press release, so when I received a note this morning about PocketMoney 2.0 for iPhone (click opens iTunes) now being available in the App Store, I took more interest than usual in the news.

Hardy Macia and his company, Catamount Software, have been developing software for mobile devices and Macs since the Newton MessagePad reigned supreme in the PDA world. In fact, that's when I first became familiar with PocketMoney. Fifteen years later, PocketMoney is still an excellent mobile app for keeping track of expenses, incomes and budgets.

There are so many new changes and features in the 2.0 version of PocketMoney that Catamount has released a 13-page document (click to download) describing them in detail. I like the new budget features, which show you at a glance how you're doing with meeting or missing a categorized budget. Catamount has added a library of video tutorials that take users step-by-step through almost every function of the app.

If you'd like to give PocketMoney 2.0 a try, there's a free Lite version (click opens iTunes) that has all of the capabilities of the full version, but is limited to 2 accounts and 2 repeating transactions. The full version is currently on sale for US$4.99.

To learn more about PocketMoney 2.0, check out the gallery below.



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sassy1

I use pocketmoney and love it. I actually didn't know about the mint app. So I gave it try. It doesn't recognize my credit union so therefore the app is worthless for those who may not bank with nationally familiar banks. It's a great idea but it doesn't kill the competition.

March 29 2009 at 1:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Justin

Yeah, I use SplashMoney too. Mint looks cool, but I like keeping my data off of some corporate server somewhere.

Pocket Money looks pretty nice and I'm sure it is useful, but I don't like entering transactions. It takes too long. SplashMoney downloads them from the bank like Quicken does. Again, there is the issue of it being US customers only, but that's me.

And where is the desktop application?

March 26 2009 at 4:03 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ulfoaf

Isn't Mint only for tracking cleared transactions?

The real power of financial software is to look ahead. You can plan for the month, see what you have to pay, and what you have left.

PocketMoney seems very good. I use SplashMoney, which is very powerful. I am really waiting for Pocket Quicken.

March 25 2009 at 11:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brian

Um, since this company is so old, isn't it possible that other companies copied these guys?

March 25 2009 at 3:00 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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mr. O

Um, their IPHONE APP is brand new - and the other apps being mentioned have been around for a while.

That this is a new application on the iPhone is sort of the whole point of the post you're commenting under...

March 25 2009 at 3:27 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
badweasel

who's got 43,000 in their checking account?

March 25 2009 at 2:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rikbcn

ICompta works very well with any bank
A little bit expensive but nice

March 25 2009 at 2:49 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
matthew

I increasingly don't see the point of apps like Cha Ching and PocketMoney. While Mint has shortcomings, auto-importing your transactions is the killer feature. I feel like without that you have to spend too much time entering transactions to fully-utilize things like budgeting. However, if these apps could sync with Mint (seems unlikely that Mint would be into that, except maybe with some licensing fees or something) or Yodlee (probably also unlikely) or get your data automatically through some other means I'd use them in a heartbeat.

March 25 2009 at 12:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Jay

I think they need to take design cues from Cha-Ching!

March 25 2009 at 12:37 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Nick

after my mini rant asking why you hadn't covered pocket money but were seeming to favour cha-ching, can I thank you for posting this :-)

It's a great app, and I hope hardy keeps on developing it (and rolling out the betas!)

March 25 2009 at 12:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
brett

Um.. I think they did. I was going to say it looks uncomfortably Minty.

March 25 2009 at 12:18 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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