totally paywalled
Response from developer
The app is paid, and that is a deliberate choice. There are no ads in it, so it is funded by the people who use it rather than by advertisers. Worth correcting one thing though: a subscription is not required. There is a one time purchase that unlocks everything permanently, and it sits next to the yearly plan on the same screen. What that covers: a weekly Safe to Spend figure, expenses and income, savings goals, recurring bills with alerts, cash flow and debt payoff, four home screen widgets and full iPad layouts. No bank login, and no account with us.
Serious app bug
Response from developer
You are right, this is a bug. The budget screen could end up waiting on setup data that never arrived, with no timeout and no way out, so it stayed on "Calculating budget" even after a restart. I could not reproduce it here, but that path is gone in 1.6.0: the calculation times out and offers a retry, and the iCloud work behind it no longer blocks the screen. Until it is out, the bottom tab bar still responds, so the other tabs are usable. If it happens again on 1.6.0, email me at halimozturk@windowslive.com with your iPhone model.
iCloud同步功能无法使用
Response from developer
您好，谢谢您把问题写得这么具体。 飞行模式那一段帮我们找到了真正的问题。断网之后还显示"同步成功"，说明那个提示根本没有去确认同步有没有完成，它只是在您点击之后过两秒就自己变成成功。提示是错的，您看到的并不是真实状态。这一点我们已经改掉，会随之后的版本一起发布。 同步本身用不了，原因也在我们这边，跟您的设备、Apple ID 或网络都没有关系。从 App Store 下载的版本连接的是 iCloud 的正式环境，而我们在那个环境上缺少同步所需的数据结构，所以请求一直被拒绝。 这个已经在 8 月 5 日修好了，是在服务器上完成的，您不需要更新或者重装。修好之后被拒绝的请求几乎降到零，之前留在设备上的数据也开始上传。您可以在一台设备上新增一笔记录，过几分钟看看另一台上有没有出现，请以这个为准，暂时不要相信那句提示。 我们还在补两件事：持续盯住同步的失败率，以及做一个能看到同步真实状态的页面，这样下次不用等用户来告诉我们。如果两台设备之间还是对不上，请写信到 halimozturk@windowslive.com，告诉我们是哪两台设备、大概什么时候试的，我们接着查。
function
Response from developer
An app that won't open is worth nothing, and twice in a row isn't bad luck. I'd rather find this than argue about it. Here is where I got to. I put it through repeated clean installs and launches, ran a full test pass over it, and went through the App Store analytics for this app line by line. No freeze on my side, and no crash report from any device. I'm not telling you it didn't happen. I'm telling you the data isn't showing me where it happened, and I don't want to guess at a fix. Going looking did turn up things worth fixing, so they're fixed. The opening screens are lighter now, animation that could drag on older iPhones is gone, and I closed a rare case where the app could end up stuck waiting on itself instead of getting on with its work. The download is also about 25 MB smaller, since a few components it no longer needed were cut out. That work is finished and going out in an update. If you're up for it, the fastest way to close this properly is an email to halimozturk@windowslive.com: which screen it stopped on (the welcome screen, one of the setup questions, or the main screen after that), your iPhone model, and a screenshot if you can grab one. Send that and I'll get straight on it and do everything I can to sort it out quickly.
Functional Yes, useful? No.
Recommend spending the time doing your expenses in something more viable, even an excel spreadsheet with enough know how can be more useful.
Response from developer
Fair, and thanks for putting it plainly. If getting anything useful out of the app means typing in every purchase by hand, that's a real cost, and you're right to weigh it. The linking part is a deliberate choice on our side, not a missing piece. Connecting to your accounts means handing a bank login to a third-party service and letting your whole transaction history leave your phone. We decided we didn't want to sit in the middle of that. Your data stays on your device and in your own iCloud, and we never ask for a bank login. That choice only earns its keep if the manual side is quick, so here's what already runs on its own: fixed costs like rent, subscriptions, insurance and loan payments are entered once as recurring transactions, and after that the app posts each one for you every period. Bill reminders clear the rest in a tap. A spreadsheet, however well built, won't do that part for you. What's left is the day-to-day variable spending, and that's the piece your review is really about. Making that piece faster is what we're building now, in large part because of feedback like yours: bulk import from a bank statement or spreadsheet file, one-tap quick entry, and automatic category suggestions. If you write in and tell us which format your bank exports (CSV, OFX, QFX and so on), we'll make sure it's on the list.
