My wife and I both have iPhones, and having recently drawn up a budget in Excel, I've been searching for an iPhone app which will help us keep track of it live. When I say live I'm talking about the following feature.
If I make a purchase in a shop or something, I want to be able to fire up the app and select a category for this expense. Fine, most budget apps do this. But I want the app to look at our shared budget over the internet (whether it's stored on Google Docs or some other third-party's server I don't care), and when I select the category I want to see how much of this month's budget my wife and I have spent already for that category.
Then when I enter the expense, it will update that total live on the shared budget "database", wherever that's stored. So if my wife fires up the app 5 minutes later she should see the total for that category including the amount from my purchase.
It's all basic functionality, but we're pretty much talking a shared budget database rather than a single user's one. I've found a couple of iPhone apps which claim to do sharing ("iPhone Budget", "Ace Budget"), but they rely on you sending each transaction by email to your partner - that's crazy. Another one I bought called "Money Journal" does have some integration with Google Docs, but annoyingly, the amount from a transaction is not added to a running total for a category, but rather just adds another row, so you end up having to total it up yourself anyway. And a second person integrating with the same document just overwrites the old document completely, so that's not what I'm looking for.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Seems like it would be a massive gap in a store with 100,000+ apps, so I'm sure someone must have thought of this...
cheers,
Ian
If I make a purchase in a shop or something, I want to be able to fire up the app and select a category for this expense. Fine, most budget apps do this. But I want the app to look at our shared budget over the internet (whether it's stored on Google Docs or some other third-party's server I don't care), and when I select the category I want to see how much of this month's budget my wife and I have spent already for that category.
Then when I enter the expense, it will update that total live on the shared budget "database", wherever that's stored. So if my wife fires up the app 5 minutes later she should see the total for that category including the amount from my purchase.
It's all basic functionality, but we're pretty much talking a shared budget database rather than a single user's one. I've found a couple of iPhone apps which claim to do sharing ("iPhone Budget", "Ace Budget"), but they rely on you sending each transaction by email to your partner - that's crazy. Another one I bought called "Money Journal" does have some integration with Google Docs, but annoyingly, the amount from a transaction is not added to a running total for a category, but rather just adds another row, so you end up having to total it up yourself anyway. And a second person integrating with the same document just overwrites the old document completely, so that's not what I'm looking for.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Seems like it would be a massive gap in a store with 100,000+ apps, so I'm sure someone must have thought of this...
cheers,
Ian
