App Profile: Tripcoin - Travel budget

chmatt31

Rating: 5/5

I use TripCoin even for my monthly expenses. Thank you for this app - it has given me a great balance between quick manual input of everyday purchases and summary statistics per category. One suggestion: within each trip, could you add a feature that allows the user themself to create “rules” — for example: if the item’s name = “Target” then it defaults the item label to grocery. I notice the default item name now is something different that I would choose for my rule, and it causes me to have to spend more clicks to re-assign the item category. Overall amazing app, just a suggestion!

Calm weather

Rating: 4/5

This does most of what I need. But it has two serious issues that are sending me looking for an alternative. The first is that it doesn’t identify US states for its locations. If I am still in Richmond, VA entering an expense, it will select the correct “Richmond, US”. If I enter it when I’ve moved on to Raleigh, I have to guess which of the seven “Richmond, US” it should be to place the expense in the correct location. If I guess wrong (and I have only a 14% chance of being right) the summary for location based expenses is off (there will be expenses in two different Richmonds). The second is if I’m entering an expense in a location the app never heard of (like the big travel center in Kenly, NC), there is no way to tell the app it occurred in Kenly (not even in “Kenly, US”). There needs to be a way to enter new locations, even if they stay in only local storage.

ZXYbacWVU

Rating: 4/5

So far I am happy with this app. I am continuing to test it further to see if I should change the rating. I choose this app after XpenseTracker stopped taking care of their customers. People betrayed by XpenseTracker should at least consider this app. Two suggestions: 1. Right now the top page shows a grouping of expenses by day only. It would be more versatile if it allows a section of grouping of expenses by week or by month. 2. Currently, the top page shows each expense converted to US$. The local currency is shown by tapping the black triangle at the lower right corner of each transaction. It would be better if each transaction shows the expense in local currency and tapping the black triangle shows the converted US$. The black line daily total (or weekly or monthly total in the future) shows the total converted to US$ is good as is.