I have been having some success with my Penny Saved apps, but I am not getting any reviews.
I would like to exchange app reviews with other devs. You review my app and I in turn will review yours. I am in no way asking for a positive review, just an honest unbiased review of my app(s), and you should expect the same.
Is anyone else interested in this. I have had good experiences so far using this method.
We're interested. We have 4 people trading reviews right now. We're all very positive, unbiased, fair minded and often filled with great ideas on how to improve the apps we review..
Would also love to trade unbiased reviews on the AppStore. We currently have two apps (Soother and newly released BusyBaby) and would love to hear from anyone out there. Please shoot me a private msg or email (tangodownstudios@gmail.com) and I will send you a promo code. Let me know your apps and I will gladly review as well, if paid please also include a promo code. Thanks!
I sent PM's to some of you.
If anyone else is interested, I'd be happy to rate and review your apps if you'll do the same.
iPad and iOS 4 broke my app, which resulted in several bad ratings and reviews.
I've updated it and fixed the issues and could definitely use some fair reviews of the new version.
I used your penny app, penny free before I even read your posts on this forum. But I never rated it.
I know you don't want to read this but as of a few days ago, I went ahead and purchased AceBudget. I can't tell you why, it just seemed like it had more functionality, and I'm actually sticking to it as my budgeting solution. I tried using the penny saved app and I remember some limitations preventing me from using it as a budgeter or considering the full version. So my advice to you is to really study closely why ace is so successful in this area. Its definitely not perfect but it does alot of the basic "how much did I spend in each area and how much do I have left" stuff and it for that it just seems to work.
It may be hard to recapture alot of the market that other financial apps have grabbed but you seem to have enough talent to go for it. I'll tell you one thing, if you can find a way to make the whole process more automated then you'll really do well. Maybe some bank record import scanner. I know the two biggest banks, bank of america and chase have an export option to save records in a csv or xls type format. If your app could parse that and automatically determine what goes into what category, you'd have a big edge over other apps.
I used your penny app, penny free before I even read your posts on this forum. But I never rated it.
I know you don't want to read this but as of a few days ago, I went ahead and purchased AceBudget. I can't tell you why, it just seemed like it had more functionality, and I'm actually sticking to it as my budgeting solution. I tried using the penny saved app and I remember some limitations preventing me from using it as a budgeter or considering the full version. So my advice to you is to really study closely why ace is so successful in this area. Its definitely not perfect but it does alot of the basic "how much did I spend in each area and how much do I have left" stuff and it for that it just seems to work.
It may be hard to recapture alot of the market that other financial apps have grabbed but you seem to have enough talent to go for it. I'll tell you one thing, if you can find a way to make the whole process more automated then you'll really do well. Maybe some bank record import scanner. I know the two biggest banks, bank of america and chase have an export option to save records in a csv or xls type format. If your app could parse that and automatically determine what goes into what category, you'd have a big edge over other apps.
best of luck
With the bank record importer, it sounds like you're talking about mint.com (they have an iPhone app, too). It automatically pulls in your credit card, checking accounts, loans, etc. I was using apps and manually tracking everything until I found out about mint, it's so much easier to have it auto import records from my bank, and me classify them later than it is to enter everything one at a time. You can't track cash spending, is the main downside (originally I used an app to keep track of my cash spending, over time I just stopped using cash as I didn't want to have to enter in anything).
Note: I don't work for mint or have any relationship to them other than as a user (which is free), your description just sounded like what mint is already doing.
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