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Octavio Sampaio

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Mar 24, 2024, 11:35:37 AM3/24/24
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Hello people
I upgraded my phone in the beginning of the year, and at that time unfortunately I couldn't manage to install AnMoney in my phone, the system reject it.
I'm using AnMoney in my previous Samsung Flip3, and trying bluecoins in my new one.
It is incredible you better AnMoney is over any other app I experimented.
Do you think there is a way to ask Google or Samsung, to help us?
Any suggestion, or this group is finished?
Thanks for any answer

Julie Kemp

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Mar 24, 2024, 4:06:16 PM3/24/24
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What is the new phone you are using?   I still feel lucky it's running perfectly with back load on Samsung Galaxy S23.

I don't think Google or Samsung can assist.  They cannot be held responsible for an app that hasn't been upkept through the years with required protocols for development. 


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Octavio Sampaio

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Mar 24, 2024, 9:16:33 PM3/24/24
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My new phone is a Samsung S24.
Apparently is a problem with the new system 64, over the old 32.
There is no fixing, as long as I understand.

Michael Sanders

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Mar 24, 2024, 10:11:50 PM3/24/24
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I was a long time user of anMoney. Loved it. But when a Android update "broke it", I sadly moved on. I am now using Bluecoins and it is just as good as anMoney.  Give Bluecoins a try......

Octavio Sampaio

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Mar 24, 2024, 10:37:22 PM3/24/24
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Yes it's true, Bluecoins is a little different, but it's affordable.
The problem for me is that I'm still using Microsoft Money in my desktop, and the interchangeable way with AnMoney was great. 
With Bluecoins, the only way to export is by excel or pdf, and both you cannot import to Money. So to be updated I have to work the double.
AnMoney was the best ever, and it's really sad that no one take a time to keep working with the development of the app.
Great to hear from you both. Thanks for sharing 

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Mar 24, 2024, 11:48:12 PM3/24/24
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Yes, really sad.....
Can you import the anMoney data to Bluecoins or did you have to re-enter all data completely ?

Graham Lomax

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Mar 25, 2024, 1:54:23 AM3/25/24
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Hello

It's the issue that Android 14 blocks the installation as the app is too old?

If so, it is possible using:

adb install --bypass-low-target-sdk-block FILENAME.apk

Good instructions can be found here, but there's quite a bit to do if you haven't installed and used 'adb' before: https://liliputing.com/how-to-install-old-apps-on-android-14/

You need the Anmoney APK, download on an existing mobile under Android 14 and use an APK extractor app.

If that's not the issue the above isn't much use. 🥺

G A

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Mar 25, 2024, 4:37:09 AM3/25/24
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Just FYI, mine survived an upgrade from Android 13 to 14. anMoney is still behaving in the same manner after the upgrade, so all OK. As for a new install, perhaps the suggestion in the other comment could help

Michael Sanders

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Mar 25, 2024, 7:05:39 AM3/25/24
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I am not sure about importing from anMoney to Bluecoins.  But I just started new with Bluecoins. And, yes, I did not have the many years of data from anMoney in Bluecoins.  It the risk with any app....

On Sun, Mar 24, 2024, 22:46 Gary Reger <int...@generalmail.com> wrote:

Yes, really sad.....

Can you import the anMoney data to Bluecoins or did you have to re-enter all data completely ?

 

Thanks

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Mar 25, 2024, 8:44:43 AM3/25/24
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Hello, the import from anMoney to Blue Coins is possible, but it needs some manual adjustments in the CSV file.
I did it some time ago when I was testing anMoney replacements, but as the anMoney still works in my Android 14, I still use it
Regards
Petr

Graham Lomax

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Mar 26, 2024, 5:25:40 PM3/26/24
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Seems like it is an issue with installing on Android 14 that people are experiencing.

Upgrading from 13 to 14 with it already installed and will be fine.

The biggest issue I can see is how people will obtain the APK, maybe someone can extract it and share (with the usual caveats of be careful of gifts from people you don't know).

Michael Sanders

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I am not sure about importing from anMoney to Bluecoins.  But I just started new with Bluecoins. And, yes, I did not have the many years of data from anMoney in Bluecoins.  It the risk with any app....

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Octavio Sampaio

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Mar 26, 2024, 5:25:40 PM3/26/24
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Yes, I can. 
First you will have to export each account, one at a time and save it with .gif. Bluecoins can import them very well.
That's the way I did with my principal  accounts, and after verifying they were correct, I export the other ones.
If you have any trouble, don't hesitate and contact me.
Best regards 

Em seg., 25 de mar. de 2024, 19:41, Gary Reger <int...@generalmail.com> escreveu:

Thanks Octavio,

 

Can you import all anMoney data to Bluecoins ?  (categories etc)

 

Can you please give a detailed “how to” ?

 

Thank you

 

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To Bluecoins you can import data from AnMoney, but not the other way.

 

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Octavio Sampaio

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Mar 26, 2024, 5:25:40 PM3/26/24
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To Bluecoins you can import data from AnMoney, but not the other way.

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Octavio Sampaio

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Mar 26, 2024, 5:25:40 PM3/26/24
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Yes, it is! Generic gif. You also have money gif, but I always used the generic one.


Em seg., 25 de mar. de 2024, 22:18, Gary Reger <int...@generalmail.com> escreveu:

HI Octavio,

 

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

Do you mean export with Generic QIF ?

 

I don’t see an option in anMoney to export with .gif.

 

Thanks

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John Thomas

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Mar 26, 2024, 6:12:30 PM3/26/24
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I was able to install anMoney successfully on a Pixel 8 Pro using the tools described above. Thank you very much. I am sharing a link to the apk file to the group

John

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John Thomas

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Mar 29, 2024, 5:16:07 PM3/29/24
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I have the apk file on my new Pixel 8 Pro running Android 14, but it will not install, " not compatible." For the time being I am using anMoney on a 4 year-old Samsung tablet  running Android 11

John

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Mar 30, 2024, 7:57:59 AM3/30/24
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Thank you for this liliputing link. It worked for me on moving to a Samsung S23 Ultra. Still cannot face getting to know Bluecoins!

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Dec 23, 2024, 1:14:54 AM12/23/24
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Can anyone please give a detailed explanation on how to do this ??

Thank you

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Dec 23, 2024, 1:24:15 AM12/23/24
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I'm confused.
Please describe how to export an aNmoney account and import into Bluecoins.
I don't understand how to export an aNmoney to a gif to Bluecoins.
Thank you

Rick Jones

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Dec 23, 2024, 5:37:33 AM12/23/24
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The file format is qif (not gif!). It's been the default export/import format ever since Intuit first released Quicken.

Rick
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Francesco Argenio Benaroio

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Dec 23, 2024, 3:59:16 PM12/23/24
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Following this. I have 20+ years history on AnMoney (through past imports), using it since 2014 and currently on a Pixel 8 on Android 15.
Still loving it, with tweaks (turning the phone horizontally in some occasions to tap untappable areas, coping with occasional crashes, etc)
Experiences in migrating big DBs on Bluecoins? 

Julie Kemp

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Jan 6, 2025, 1:50:25 AMJan 6
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I was planning to test out Bluecoins with an anMoney backup file. I went to find my AnMoney backup file,  only to discover that my scheduled backup hasn't been running.  Sadly, this seems to be an issue due to my backup location having been an external (SD card) on a previous phone, rather than internal storage. My current phone doesn't have an sd slot. I tried to modify the export location to an internal location,  but it appears it will not save my configuration change in the settings for import/export.  Without a local destination folder, export won't work. Has anyone else had this issue and, perhaps, a work around to get the export to work?  Galaxy S23 User here.

Thank you!


Sylvain Bouju

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Jan 6, 2025, 6:11:36 AMJan 6
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Je me décide moi aussi à commencer de tester Bluecoins...
Sur mon smartphone, lui aussi dépourvu de carte mémoire extractible, mon dossier d' archivage est défini ainsi: /pCloudSyncFiles/anMoney/backups et j'y retrouve sans problèmes mes archives automatiques localement avec un utilitaire fichiers.
Je les retrouve également dans le cloud (pCloud, ici) grâce à une synchronisation automatique faite avec Autosync.


Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 6, 2025, 8:44:17 AMJan 6
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My suggestion is that you export each account in .qif mode and then import it to Bluecoins. In this way you will have a little more work., but the result is good. Give us a feedback and good luck


Julie Kemp

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Jan 6, 2025, 6:13:04 PMJan 6
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Hi Sylvain, 

Thank you for your response. 

The issue I am currently having is that the current archive location is set to a location on an external SD card which no longer exists.




External storage is selected and corresponding subfolder detailed.  If I choose "Path" and then key literally any local folder name (with or without a forward slash), once I click "OK", the interface goes back to my account listings, but the change from "External Storage" to "Path" with the new local directory has not been saved, and again it shows the current setup (External storage). 

Due to this, I don't think installing a cloud storage app will help, unless the cloud storage folder (pCloud) that gets installed on the phone is considered an "external" folder, all be it virtual? 

Is pCloud app something you installed after moving to a phone without external storage, or had you already been using this on your previous phone?

Can you show me a screen shot of your Archiving Setup screen above? Curious if it shows "External storage" or "Path" with your pCloud folder path.

Thank you!

Russell A Blake

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Jan 6, 2025, 7:52:56 PMJan 6
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Hello Julie,

Just a quick thought on this. I have an older Samsung device where backup and import/ export path is set to SD card. 

However on checking the state of backups, I found that I actually have an internal drive Anmoney subfolder where backups have regularly been placed successfully.

I don't remember ever setting this up, but the Settings men still wrongly references the external drive.  Perhaps check your device just in case for the same feature?

Regards.

Sylvain Bouju

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Jan 7, 2025, 2:04:17 AMJan 7
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In Android , I don't think "External storage" means a medium physically external. as a SD card or USB storage.
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Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 7, 2025, 8:43:42 AMJan 7
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Julie,
As I told you earlier, Bluecoins does not accept a backup file from An money. You will have to export account per account, separately, and each as a QIF file. Your backup is in your phone probably in android/anmoney/ as mine files are.

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Julie Kemp

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Jan 7, 2025, 12:45:13 PMJan 7
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Thank you for everyone jumping in on this dicussion.

First, I did discover that up until last January 2024, my backup was still functioning on schedule, even with the "external" location as defined above.  It was actually storing the files in the local location, as everyone has mentioned (/anMoney/backups) under my root folder.

Interestingly, that root folder /anMoney/ doesn't show when I look in "My Files". I can only find it doing a search for anMoney, they it shows, and all the older backups are in there.  I wonder if something changed on the permissions to that folder, causing the scheduled backup to suddenly stop a year ago. I am NOT surprised I wasn't notified of this fact.

Thank you Rick for explaining the history of the "external" storage.

Thank you Russell for sharing that yours, too, is still succesfully creating backups and placing locally, even with "External" defined.

Thank you Sylvain for showing that your setup does also still show as "External", but obviously still working and place the files locally.

Octavio, Yes, I do plan on exporting one account at a time, but first I need to get the backup (or export) working again.

I think now that I know modifying from "External" to "Path" isn't the issue, I need to figure out why the auto backups suddenly just stopped a year ago in January 2024.

 I will update when I have further information.

Thank you everyone for your help!

Julie

Francesco Argenio Benaroio

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Jan 13, 2025, 5:32:50 AMJan 13
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Hi all, happy to read from this community: anMoney still rocks!

For me too on a Pixel 8 on Android 15 (no SD): I have setup backup on "External Storage" (not really external) on "/anMoney/backups" on a weekly basis (to me it happens on Wednesdays ), and as previously shared @Sylvain I have also setup an autosync app from that folder to google drive (DriveSync) on Wednesday evenings. It works.

@Julie: Regarding the issue: did you check about the permission for file access? Maybe a security update of Android removed permissions? Are the manual backups working? In that case maybe it's an issue of scheduling tasks blocked by the os? (battery savers, or similar?)

@Octavio, thank you for your experience on migrating to Bluecoins one account per time as QIF. Is there a specific formatting for the QIF files that you noticed working best? (tabs, separations, etc). Did you have problems in importing transfer transactions between accounts? Which settings do you recommend for the importing process?

All the best to all and happy new year!
Francesco. 

Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 13, 2025, 9:01:56 AMJan 13
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My dear Francesco. It's been over a year since I was forced to migrate to Bluecoins, after evaluating other apps and I don't remember the settings I used. My suggestion is that you try one account at a time and use the one that suits you best. Start with the simplest, I think it works best. If you can, bring us your feedback. Good luck


Julie Kemp

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Jan 13, 2025, 10:40:42 AMJan 13
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Hi Francesco, 

Thank you messaging on this thread. I got busy last week and didn't have time to pursue my research. 

Anyway,  just now I discovered that Files and Media permissions for anMonday was turned off! It must have automatically occurred during some sort of Android update. I just turned it back on and I was able to run my backup manually and will next verify that my scheduled backup begins working again.

Additionally,  I will move forward with testing the export to QIF files one account at a time and to import to Bluecoins. 

Thank you to everyone for your input! 

Julie

Octavio Sampaio

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Julie Kemp

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Hi Everyone,
I finally got back to this project.  First, after fixing the file access permission on AnMoney,  which must have changed during an update, my automatic backups resumed!

Yesterday I got to working on exporting .qif files and importing into Bluecoins. Here are my results:

I suggest:

Create the same account names in Bluecoins manually FIRST before trying to import.  This made MAPPING automatic by Bluecoins!

On creating the export .qif file, I used the default date format month, day, year (settings, import/export) and chose MM/dd/yyyy in Bluecoins during the import. Other default settings in Bluecoins worked (utf-8) as this matched my default in anMoney export.

At first I had tested exporting accounts separately (or so I thought). First I exported 1 account (single checked account). Then I exported the second account to another file, but didn't realize until later that the check box for the first account was also still checked during the second import.  This "accident" turned out to be good, as when I imported this second file into bluecoins, it did so successfully and created both accounts  (this was before I learned to manually create the accounts in Bluecoins before import).

So...after seeing both accounts imported in,  but not having a account to map to, I decided to create the accounts manually on the Bluecoins side first, and then tested exporting all accounts from anAmoney in one export. I did not check the single file check box in anMonday, as it wouldn't allow it. Nonetheless,  checking all the accounts on the second page allowed all accounts to be exported into a single .qif file.  So after exporting all accounts in 1 file,  I went to Bluecoins and used the reset feature under Dashboard, Settings, Data Management. This cleaned out everything back to factory.  Then I created all my accounts manually, naming them all exactly the same as in anMoney.  It seemed to me that if the accounts were already there, maybe all the transfers would come in easier. I never tested importing all accounts in one file without having first created all the accounts manually.  I only accidentally tested 2 accounts with  no file mapping and I immediately decided to try having accounts to map to. I don't recall exactly what stood out to me, maybe allowing all accounts to be created on the fly would work the same as it did with having all accounts existing for mapping. I don't know.

Anyway, the single file from anMoney with all accounts and data from nearly 15 years imported 100% successfully!

These are the issues:
All Categories and subcategories are placed under a single ".qif" category.  It's pretty ugly.  I am manually renaming and moving them to other categories (this automatically movedls all transactions to the new category) .  If you delete a category,  you will be prompted where to move the existing transactions (you can click a button to see all soon to be affected transactions).

As for transfers:
The transactions show in both accounts. The only weird thing is the new transactions each have the name of the originating account as their "category" in brackets.  No information is lost, it just looks a little different.  Yes, all these [account name] Categories also exist under the ".qif" category.   It's ugly,  but not sure at the moment the best thing to do if I want to keep the source account "transfer" history.

Spilts also came in perfectly as well! You see a single transaction in Bluecoins and it shows "3 Categories" for example. Then click on the transaction, and you will see all the splits.

Suggestion: Cleanup your Categories in anMoney first (if you desire) it will make moving them out of the "qif" main category easier in Bluecoins.

I setup security in Bluecoins  (pin and finger print is optional) and I setup backup  (local and external to google).

There is also a widget for quick transaction entry. So far it seems to only be for a single account (whichever is setup as your default). It's not to difficult to change accounts,  but I do like how I have separate widgets for each account w anMoney.

Reoccurring transactions will also need to be created manually.  However,  I may just do this as each occurs, as there is an option to "Schedule" the transaction when entering it which is actually a little
more intuitive than the separate section for this in anMomey.

So far, I am pretty pleased and plan to use both simultaneously, at least through a monthly account reconciliation, to see how it goes.

All in all, I think it's a good product, and the Dashboard visuals are really nice!

Feel free to ask any questions.

Julie

Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 20, 2025, 11:44:20 AMJan 20
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Great! Julie your message was a real lesson and must be saved. Do you try export an account or multiple accounts from Bluecoins? I think this is the only thing that's missing to me.

Julie Kemp

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Jan 20, 2025, 3:55:48 PMJan 20
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There isn't an export specifically.  There is the local backup and cloud sync functions. Either way they create the .fydb file.  After googling, I discovered it is a No-Sql Db format. On the same google, I found a link to a Python script for converting the Bluecoins file to .csv.  I have no idea if it works or is legit. I did not try.  I suspect it's not the only tool to convert such a file type.

I hesitate to paste the link here since I haven't done any vetting.  If you google converting .fydb file to .csv I am sure you can find it too.

Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 21, 2025, 12:32:10 PMJan 21
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Thanks, I'll check it out. 

Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 23, 2025, 4:13:36 PMJan 23
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Hello everybody, and specially Julie (  a genius)

Thanks to her information, I made a research and find a CSV Converter ( https://csvconverter.biz)

As we can export in Excel (csv), it worked almost fine for me. I had only some issues with the number format ( for example 138,00 comes out as 13800,00 ) and the negative numbers came in the income place like positive ones.
After thinking and reading a lot, I started to edit my .qif generated file ( is simple with notepad).
There I can delete the dates I already had imput in MS Money, and edit each number with a minus (-) symbol. After doing this, and paying attention in each line with the negative numbers ( that is originally positive ones) those I simply delete the minus symbol (-).
To do so is very simple in notepad or any other word app, just use locate and replace . Takes a little time, but is very satisfying in the end.
I already managed 2 credit card accounts not reconciled since April 24.
I think that for the first time in many months, I can rely in Bluecoins in my phone, and MSMoney in my desktop. 


Julie Kemp

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Jan 23, 2025, 5:17:31 PMJan 23
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That's great news! So glad you found a converter and were able to solve the negative/positive issue!

I have been using both Bluecoins and anMonday for adding transactions.  So far, it works quite well. Even though transaction entry has a single Widget (only one account), when you key in a Store, it immediately prepopulates with the account used for that same store on the previous transaction, so lack of separate account entry really makes no difference,  and having one 1 widget is cleaner and faster for transaction entry.

Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 24, 2025, 8:13:10 AMJan 24
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O agree with You, but you have to pay attention on what account you are entering the expense. Bluecoins bring back the last entry per default, for example , a supermarket you go often, one day you pay with one credit card, the other you pay cash, so you must verify accurately wich account is being debited, otherwise you have to search were it goes. This is a little annoying, but is at it is..... I'm impressed that you are still able to run Anmoney in your phone. In mine(s) as they upgraded to android 14, can't run it anymore, unhappyly...

Julie Kemp

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Update regarding Balancing Accounts in Bluecoins:

Unless I am missing something (anyone feel free to correct me):

1) I do not see how I can input a Statement Balance, and then go through checking each transaction as cleared against the statement, resulting in a Difference of Zero ( and the "Done" we get in anMoney), knowing you have, in fact, verified every transaction matches to the statement.  
   
There is a "Reconcile" option, but it only gives the option to state the new balance, and it automatically enters an Account Adjustment transaction for the full amount, which makes NO sense to me.

2) If I choose to Manually check each transaction (long press) on the BlueCoins side to reconcile on their Balance Sheet section, there is an ongoing "cumulative total" of selected transactions in the top left of the screen to verify against the balance of the statement.  I guess rather than looking for a "Done" indicating a "Zero" difference, we could just look for the Total Tally to match the Statement total. However, this didn't work for me, due to number 3 below.

3)  There is no ability to Add or Modify a transaction DURING "Reconciliation".  If you realize you made a mistake on a transaction, there is no way to edit it on the fly.  If you realize you need to add a transaction, you cannot add it. You have to leave the "reconciliation (aka selecting transactions)" to change a transaction or key one. It does not keep track of the transactions that you had already "reconciled" with a long press, like you can "Postpone" reconciliation in anMoney.  You can instead choose to "Clear" all the transactions you just selected, but then the cumulative total at the top disappears, so again, you are left without a "postponement" feature. After you have manually keyed all your missed or updated transactions, you have no way to know how much was already reconciled (unless you keep track on paper).  I had to also keep track on paper which transactions I needed to add or modify.  It was really aggravating.

#3 is a deal breaker for me.  During a long reconciliation process, to have to "start over" because of one or two new transactions (or even a modified one) seems incredibly unsustainable.  

4) I started keying in the Recurring monthly charges, one by one, as needed.  They show in the "Reminders" section, REPEATEDLY from now through the end of the year (for the monthly transactions), rather than just the next single instance of the transaction. You can edit one or more of these 'reminders', just this one, all or the current one and beyond, same as anMoney.  Not a fan of seeing the repeated ones more than once, for a whole year in the future.

5) Searching for a transaction, say a particular payor in the Transaction section: This I do like better than anMoney, because as you type, it dynamically begins show the transactions that match...so if you make a typo, you will immediately know and you can change it, without have to start over after your search returns nothing.

Unless I am missing something, I feel #3 is a deal breaker. I have ZERO confidence that I correctly reconciled my account. The current amount is not matching to the anMoney amount and I cannot figure out why.  If I didn't have anMoney to compare to, I would have even less confidence, without a true Reconciliation process.

I hope this helps others. 

-Julie

Deeky Evans

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Jan 30, 2025, 3:06:55 AMJan 30
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Thanks Julie,
That #3 would be a deal breaker
Let us hope someone,  has a solution.
I am still running anmoney, on my Note20,  but there is an upgrade in my future so this is all super relevant


Maicon Moreira

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Jan 30, 2025, 6:35:30 AMJan 30
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Hi Jullie,

Finally someone was able to describe this weakness in Bluecoins reconciliation in such detail. I have also suffered from this behavior since I migrated to BC, 2 years ago. How I miss AnMoney reconciliation.
It would be interesting if you reported this to the app's support. Maybe they can give us some clearer guidance, or even improve the app.

Maicon Moreira


Octavio Sampaio

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Jan 30, 2025, 11:33:02 AMJan 30
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Dear Julie

One more time, this is a fantastic post, it will help us a lot.
About the third item (3), I use the MSMoney in the desktop and verify each income in the phone with Bluecoins. It´s very annoying  but it´s for the moment the only solution I got.

For the export mode in .QIF I wrote to Bluecoins support but got no answer till now.



Em qui., 30 de jan. de 2025 às 00:13, Julie Kemp <julie...@gmail.com> escreveu:

Julie Kemp

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Jan 30, 2025, 2:42:12 PMJan 30
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Hi Everyone,
I am glad my post was helpful.  I will try to contact Bluecoins and suggest a change to their reconciliation process.  I will keep you all informed!

Julie Kemp

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Update on Bluecoins:

I sent an email to the developer 4 days ago re: the reconciliation process, but have not received a response.  Additionally, I noticed their FB page has no responses or posts since June 2024.  Last, I found the developer on Reddit, and the last comments there re: Bluecoins was a couple of years ago. This doesn't feel promising, unfortunately.

I sent them a message on Reddit as well.  Hopefully we get some response but I wouldn't hold our breath. Looks like we are back to square one with a replacement. :(

-Julie

Octavio Sampaio

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Feb 3, 2025, 9:50:57 PMFeb 3
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Dear Julie, that's my fear. I hope we are not experiencing another deception like AnMoney.

Ignacio Perez

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Feb 4, 2025, 10:37:59 AMFeb 4
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Hi all,

@Octavio Sampaio everything points there. There's a bug when you transfer between accounts with different currencies, wrote the developer with no success. I've made the transition from anMoney long ago, at first the support was great, afterwards the developper manipulated all he could to get good reviews and now that he has made good money he just forgot his product. What a pity.

Best 




Kreso

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Apr 15, 2025, 1:26:31 PMApr 15
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Hi, to avoid untappable areas in anMoney on Android 15 just set in display settings to allow anMoney to run in full screen mode. BR

Andrew Vevers

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May 17, 2025, 7:45:47 AMMay 17
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OK it's finally happened. After 18 years of daily use of AnMoney, my phone is finally incompatible.

Samsung phone owners - if you are eligible for an upgrade to One UI 7.0, One UI 7.0 breaks AnMoney. Attempting to amend a date of a transaction fails with the message "anMoney isn't optimised for the latest version of Android. Screen touches may be delayed or not recognised.". The date UI won't work now.

Pretty gutted, but it's time to move on. 18 years is a good run for any app. If anyone finds a workaround or different behaviour, please share. For now, I'll export and try to import into an alternative app. 

Andrew 

Julie Kemp

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May 17, 2025, 11:23:30 AMMay 17
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I meant to message last week, the same thing happened me. Thus far, entering transactions, minus changing the date, is still working.  I just know I have to key it on the day, otherwise the transaction will have the incorrect date.  :(

I have not yet done a reconciliation.  I really hope it still works.  The concern will be if we are able to enter transactions during reconciliation!  I will update this thread when I try it out.


G A

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May 17, 2025, 12:49:56 PMMay 17
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Trying to post to the group but not managing. Sorry in advance if I'm messing things up.

Re Bluecoins, it was my experience where the developer hasn't responded to feedback and a potential solution I suggested requiring extra permissions for the app to handle notifications properly on Android 15.

However, the app is still getting developed. I've switched to the beta earlier this year, and while it still has bugs that need ironing, it has received at least two updates, if I'm not mistaken, the latest bring version 13.0.346 on May 11th.

Speaking of Android, this the first major version (15) where I feel many things broke or regressed in general. I wish I didn't upgrade, but it's not really a safe option. If Android supported long-term security updates, separately from the OS updates, that would have given us a proper choice

Ignacio Perez

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May 17, 2025, 2:56:32 PMMay 17
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Doesn't look like it's being developed. Last version I see in Google Play is 12.9.5 August 2024.

G A

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May 17, 2025, 3:09:20 PMMay 17
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Hello Ignacio, 

You must've missed the part where I mentioned that it's in Beta. Here's a screenshot:



Andrew Vevers

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May 17, 2025, 3:12:11 PMMay 17
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I realised I replied to an existing thread, instead of starting a new one, so apologies if I messed things up.

To many this would not be a big deal, but when you use something like AnMoney every day, and value it enormously, it's a big deal here! I'd initially thought BC was unable to export to csv, but it can, so I'm looking into this inevitable migration. If it was a proprietary db format I'd have been looking elsewhere.


Andrew Vevers

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May 17, 2025, 3:12:51 PMMay 17
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Yeah that's a concern. But it does export to csv, so there's that...

Ignacio Perez

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May 17, 2025, 4:03:39 PMMay 17
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Thanks. Sorry 

El sáb, 17 de may de 2025, 2:01 p.m., John Doe <gag....@gmail.com> escribió:


You must've missed the part where mentioned it's the Beta version

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Update on Reconciliation functionality since update to Android version 15:

TLDR:  Reconciliation still works!  The only issue was adding a transaction with a past date (so I just added with current date and added notes in the memo with the correct date) OR a transaction that needed to have a different type than previous (Credit Vs. Debit).  So I added it with the existing type, and edited the type AFTER adding it.

 

DETAILS:

I was able to pause reconciliation to go back and enter my reoccurring transactions which had not yet been auto entered.

I was able to get back into the reconciliation, no problem.

I added a transaction which was in the past.  I was UNABLE to modify the date (caused the same error/freezing since recent Android update) that occurs keying any new transaction.

Additionally, this particular transaction I tried to key during reconciliation is usually a Debit, but this time it was a Credit. Once I changed it to a credit, I was unable to Add it, as it caused a similar error re: the Android version.   

I was able to get out of that frozen screen by clicking the downward arrow at the bottom of my screen, as the Cancel or Continue button on the “New Transaction” interface screen were frozen and only caused the error to come up “anMoney isn’t optimized for the latest version of Android. Screen touches may be delayed or not recognized”.

Once getting out of the frozen screen, I continued to enter the transaction, but I just changed it back to the same type (Debit) and it added successfully.  I then was able to edit the transaction and change it to the proper type.

I did notice that when NOT in the reconciliation process, if I added a transaction that was a different type for that same vendor, I was able to Check the Box to not verify this each time.  By doing this, the next time I was in the reconciliation process and added a transaction of a different type for the same vendor, I never saw the error/frozen screen.

Editing a transaction AMOUNT during reconciliation worked as per usual.

All in all, pretty good news

Rick Jones

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I'm nowhere near to getting onto Android 15, but a thought on changing the date on a new transaction...

Does the arrow by the date field to step the date back a day at a time work?

Julie Kemp

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Rick, that is brilliant! I never even noticed that arrow before. I just tested it, and it works for a new transaction!

Unfortunately, that arrow doesn't exist when editing a transaction, but it's still incredible news for entering new transactions for past dates!

Everyone here will be so happy to have this workaround.

anMoney lives on!  lol

Thank you Rick!

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Does the arrow by the date field to step the date back a day at a time work?

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Octavio Sampaio

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May 19, 2025, 3:50:12 PMMay 19
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I don't know if this will help some people, but I've always used AnMoney with Money since 1998. 
I easily exported my transactions to Money's using .qif files and in Bluecoins, I can only export transactions in .csv, but with Julie's help, I researched and found a website that converts .csv files to .qif. (https://csvconverter.biz/) You can just register and use it. At first, you'll have some work to map the fields you want to convert, but it has worked very well once you're ready. In AnMoney, I used split a lot, but despite using it in Bluecoins, when exporting, I can't do the same with .qif (the transactions all come, but separate). 
In case anyone finds out how to export with split, I would be very grateful.
If you need help, I'm available.



G A

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May 26, 2025, 4:05:38 PMMay 26
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Another beta update 11 days later (version 13.0.356). Interface is still somewhat clunky, but definitely still getting developed


phogi ace

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May 30, 2025, 11:05:36 AMMay 30
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An issue for me with BC is that it gets out of sync with regards to cents. Every now and then, the balance will be off by a few cents, so you need to add a transaction with an amount of a few cents so that your balance is correct. The developer is probably not using the correct number type for money amounts in the app, so he loses a cent or two every now and as it totals the transactions in the accounts. 

I'm still hoping someone can reverse engineer anMoney. I tried it but there're too many objects and some of the third party tools he uses are no longer available.

I am currently also using YNAB. It's a paid app, and also has its own pros/cons, but I Ike it so far.

But yes, like Julie said, anMoney lives on!

Andrew Vevers

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May 30, 2025, 11:57:09 AMMay 30
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That rounding error is a big concern! Just as I am working out how to move to BC!

Anyone else finding this? Phogi ace - have you reported this to the Bluecoins dev??



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