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Jul 26th 2010 at 8:00AM Can't get back to the notes I wrote for each expenditure. Any help? Hey, thanks for the app review. I'm wondering what software/apps did you use for the screen capture? The delete mechanic and the ability to easily switch between currencies is cool, but other than that, there isn't anything here that would coax me away from MoneyBook. To me it seems that mint.com and its free apps for the iPhone/Android are more suitable for doing this sort of work. I looked into getting this for my wife when she got her new iPhone, but we ended up spending the additional $3 to get her iXpenseit. I swear by that app, and use it several times a day. PLEASE remember the iPhone tag Mr. Schramm. I thought this was a Mac app for a moment until I realised. Expenditure vs. MoneyBook. Which wins ? Looks like a nice app but I just prefer to use my Wells Fargo credit card to purchase everything and then after the fact I go on my online banking at wellsfargo.com and it shows me the exact amounts of what I spent, where and when. TUAW (or The Unofficial Apple Weblog) is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple. © 2011 AOL Inc. All Rights Reserved. We value our readership, especially when we receive tips which help us write compelling content. Use this form to send us a tip. Note: Some fields are required. Read More

[Note 10/12/10: Expenditure has since been updated to v1.1 and has addresses many of the issues I had with it in this review.] Expenditure may not display as much on-screen information as I ‘d expect from a finance app, but it ‘s such a pleasure to use that I almost don ‘t mind having to swipe across a few pages to see what I normally would on one screen in MoneyBook. I ‘ve been a loyal user of MoneyBook for the last couple of months, but Expenditure ‘s approach to personal budgeting was presented so beautifully in this video that I absolutely had to give the app a try. Your Personal Budget Expenditure is designed to track the money going in and out of your life. The big number at the top of the main screen represents your current budget, and the transactions you make will either add to or subtract from that number. That’s the gist of it, really, and everything else is gravy. I Like Gravy Transactions can be classified as either income or expense, and typing them in on the digital numpad is plain awesome. Every key on the number pad clicks with mechanical precision, and this is something I always appreciate a developer including. After you’ve finished entering an amount, you can specify a date, category, note, and even append a photo to your transaction. Entering each bit of information is easy enough, but I do wish that the buttons in this section of the app were a bit bigger. Once you’ve saved a transaction you’ll head right back to the main screen, and your budget will have already adjusted to your newest expenditure. Tapping on a completed transaction will bring you to a special paginated view, which starts with a “printout” of your expenditure. You can choose to pull the printout downwards to rip and delete it, or swipe left on the screen to view an appended note or photo (if applicable). Transaction History The budget shown in Expenditure changes every time you record a transaction, and you can see a monthly history of all of your transactions by tapping on the bottom of the screen. The main screen also shows a limited history of your top spending months or categories, or a list of the last five items you logged. One thing that bugs me about this setup is that it doesn’t seem to remember Read More