First I have to say that I fully support David's reimagining of anMoney which was a reimagining of MS Money which remains the best personal finance program (yes I'm old enough to be a programmer and not an app developer) ever. Keep up the good work, David. I'll be watching closely.
I'm now running a tablet with Android 16 cos my Android 15 tablet is aging and the battery will soon fail. I'm keeping it for AnMoney purposes.
AnMoney doesn't install on Android 16. I know there are ways to get around it but we all know it's a stop gap she it's only going to get worse.
Therefore I have spent a few days setting up BlueCoins as a parallel personal finance app to AnMoney.
I have to say it's very usable. It's a lot harder to read than anMoney and there's no font size config.
The nomenclature is very different but it's workable once you realise that Name is Payee (I initially thought it was a transaction name and Label was Payee 🙄)
Reconciliation is basically "Mark everything Reconciled" and the highlighting of uncleared, cleared and reconciled... well... leaves much to be desired.
Reminders are the equivalent of "Recurring Bills & Deposits". BlueCoins improves on anMoney by showing projected account balance (which partly makes up for not showing future scheduled transactions in individual accounts) but is let down by providing only a day by day list of scheduled transactions instead of the anMoney feature of a simple list of with frequency. It's very annoying and I hate it.
BlueCoins has a Future Projection option graph within each account. The main issue I have is that only a short term projections have daily balances. Once you've gone beyond 3 months, you're into weekly or worse. This is terrible because a daily granularity is necessary to show transactions which take the balance below thresholds. BlueCoins allows custom date windows but it doesn't easily tell me I'm going to be in the red in 8 months.
That being said, I would like to commend BlueCoins for it's long term projections. I've compared these with anMoney and they are bang on.
I definitely would not try to export/import between anMoney and BlueCoins, though. They're not sufficiently similar. It all comes in garbled and is a waste of time.
I suppose the gist of this is that BlueCoins is a decent personal finance app which does, with a few caveats and a bit of rethinking, just about match anMoney/MS Money.
I even would like Davud to add the BlueCoins Labels to anMoney2 cos it brilliant.
I'll continue to run both apps for a month or two and feed back here as necessary.
David, again, keep going. I'll switch back in a heartbeat, especially if you can get anMoney to anMoney2 import working,
Ed.