App for That?

FunLovinCriminal

Hi all
Daft question.
How do you keep track of your finances?
Currently I have a excel spreadsheet. A tab for each month. I'm now finding it antiquated. I enter each entry, and move the money across when the money has left the account.
Surely there is an app that would help. Does any one have any advice which are the best?
FLC

grumbler

Is there a decent budgeting app?
Replacement for Microsoft Money
YBS Money Manager
money dashboard ! Any good ?
Software for keeping track
book to track finances
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FunLovinCriminal

Hi all
How do you all keep track of money going in and out?
Which apps work for you?
I've looked on the app stor and cannot find anything - all seem to be budgeting apps? Basically I want an app that I can enter our wages in, let the direct debits come off, and enter the ad hoc payments that crop up. Then showing me a balance that I have left.
Any help?

agrinnall

To be fair the OP may not have spotted that grumbler's post is all links to other threads - it took a second or two for me to realise it.

colsten

FunLovinCriminal wrote: »

Hi all
How do you all keep track of money going in and out?
Which apps work for you?
I've looked on the app stor and cannot find anything - all seem to be budgeting apps? Basically I want an app that I can enter our wages in, let the direct debits come off, and enter the ad hoc payments that crop up. Then showing me a balance that I have left.
Any help?

Which of your questions have not been answered after you worked in detail through all the links grumbler kindly provided for you in answer to your original post?

FunLovinCriminal

Apologies guys
I didn't realise there were links there.
I'm just working through.
Many thanks

Dan83

I'm not that bothered about writing it down or inputting it into a spread sheet, I don't really take it that seriously, if I want to know how much I have/had and where I transfared it to, I'll look in the statement

colsten

Dan83 wrote: »

I'm not that bothered about writing it down or inputting it into a spread sheet, I don't really take it that seriously, if I want to know how much I have/had and where I transfared it to, I'll look in the statement

A personal finance package/application, or a good spreadsheet, will be essential to keeping records.

Nothing will stop you from just using pen and paper to register and monitor your money - - - less than 15-20 or so years ago that was the way people did track their personal accounts that way, and some still do nowadays.

Not writing down your transactions in some form is bound to lead to trouble.

Eco_Miser

Dan83 wrote: »

I'm not that bothered about writing it down or inputting it into a spread sheet, I don't really take it that seriously, if I want to know how much I have/had and where I transfared it to, I'll look in the statement

What happens when a payment takes weeks to appear on the statement - and you believed the statement, took out too much money and then go overdrawn when the lost payment finally comes through?

slink85

I use expense IQ on my android tablet.

much more than just keeping track of things, attach and upload receipts, bill reminders, reporting to show breakown of expenses and the like etc etc

FunLovinCriminal

I'll look at IQ, thanks

At the moment, I have a spreadsheet with each month in there, then each month has its own re-occuring payments council tax, mortgage etc. March has Car Insurance etc in it.
Then when we switch, I add it to the bottom, and move it across when the payment leaves my account - it seems so backwards though, then every year I have to clear down the ad-hoc payments, and start again. It does tell me, what I currently have in my account, and when the food shopping/diesel etc that I just did leaves the account, how much I still have left.

I was hoping there was an app that could add pending transactions etc to it - as I have little "free" time to sit infront of the laptop to track the money, and app would mean I could do it on the go.