BudgetPro

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BudgetPro is an Android application that allows users to keep track of expenses and daily, weekly or monthly budgets. Each entry of an expense or income is tied to an “Item”. Items can be specific things like “Latte”, “Pay Check”, “Gasoline” – or more general, like “Entertainment”. Accounts are combinations of Items, with the ability to set a Budget or Target. They can be linked to any combination of Items, both expense and income. This method allows easy display of histories and stats of multiple Items, while still allowing access to individual Item totals. For instance, “Coffee”, “Coffee Beans”, and “Latte” Items can be combined in an Account “Caffeine”, allowing you to track or set a budget on all together. Accounts can share Items, so there can be a “Caffeine” account which includes the “Latte” Item, and another Account called “Starbucks” which also includes it. If you want to set a budget, or track daily totals of just one specific Item, you can make an Account for just that Item.

There are two ways to set a budget. For instance at the top of the Main screen there are three $ fields which can each be set to an Account (top row) and TimeRange (buttons just below give options: “TODAY”, “THIS WEEK”, “THIS MONTH” OR “ALL”), and when a Budget is set it shows a simple color progress bar of how much money is left. Also expense and income Items can be combined in an Account so that you try to reach a Balance. For example, You can combine a “Paycheck” income Item and several expense Items in one Account. You enter your weekly pay, and then when you spend money in an Item linked to that Account, it subtracts from the Balance, so you can see exactly what you have left.

Spending data from different accounts can be viewed in graphs or statistics as well as exported or imported to CSV format. The Graphs allow you to see expenses/income by DAY, WEEK, MONTH, or HOUR. You can use the zoom buttons to see more or less time at once, or pan forward and back in time by swiping your finger on the Graph, or pressing the directional buttons. The Stats screen allows easy Totalling of time ranges, while mixing and matching Items, or Accounts. BudgetPro uses a standard csv file format: Date, Time, Name (Item name), Memo, Amount.