ExpenseView: Keeping Balance With Expenses
This is the second review in our series of expense applications. For an introduction to this category, including a rundown of features common to all four applications reviewed this week, please see: Expense Applications: Managing Finances With Web 2.0.
Designed with the individual in mind, ExpenseView allows its users to track expenses within a budget, comparing spending with income. Easy to use, easy to intuit, ExpenseView makes expense tracking simple.
Navigation in ExpenseView is handled through three tabs: Expenses, Income, and Balance. Under the first two users can customize categories and set weekly, monthly, and annual budgets to each category. This detail is valuable for users who want to restrict their spending in specific ways, such as students (a student will not have a set budget for books, but may set the budget for entertainment). Also possible under these tabs are the abilities to search (date range only) and export (csv) expense reports by date and category.
ExpenseView brings detail to your expenses, but understands that expenses only make sense in contrast to income, which they put under a tab. With the Income tab users are able to enter their sources of income in the same way as they did with their expenses, adding categories, searching by dates, and exporting income reports. On the last tab, Balance, ExpenseView shows spending in relation to income, including projected balance (estimated based on monthly and annual costs).
As a feature in all but the Balance tab, users can see a pie chart of their costs and income, generated by the items they have entered. It’s a quick visual of their finances, and available under the Income and Expenses tabs. One of the weaknesses in ExpenseView is that these visualizations are spread out, so users can only get an idea of the big picture by going back and forth through the tabs. Business users are likely to find the decentralized function of ExpenseView too cumbersome, but individuals are likely to find ExpenseView a valuable tool to keep tabs on expenses for the price (free). At the time of this review the Google widget for ExpenseView worked well, though there was an error message for iPhone users.
To find this or similar applications, there is the Listio search: track+expenses.
Previously in this series: Expens'd: Simple Expense Tracking
Next in this series: Moneygement: Expenses, Debt Tracking, And Reporting
Application: ExpenseViewListio Profile: http://www.listio.com/web20/app/ExpenseView/
Website: http://www.expenseview.com
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