BillMinder 4
Finance app makes welcome return
When it comes to staying on top of payments, BillMinder does the job better than most — or it did, until regular updates stopped coming in early 2013, suggesting the app had been abandoned. Thankfully it has not been, and here’s a new version with a cleaner interface, which nicely complements iOS 11.
It’s a good news/bad news scenario, however: BillMinder 4 is a completely new app, with no free upgrade for users of the previous version. That said, the $4.99 price tag is reasonable, especially considering the app is now universal and works equally well on iPhone and iPad.
You can get up to speed pretty quickly by logging into your account and syncing data from the previous version, but you may be faced with hundreds of bills showing up past due after abandoning the app two years ago. What’s worse, there’s no way to bulk clear such entries, short of marking them paid one at a time.
None of this will be a hassle if you’re new to the app, and the developers have added useful functionality missing from the previous version, such as the ability to export CSV files or send data to PocketMoney, the popular financial app.
One area still lacking is reports, which no longer have a dedicated tab. In its place is a new dashboard view that provides a graphic-rich look at monthly and category totals along with the percentage of bills paid on time, but no way to export this information.
The bottom line. A welcome return, but we’re sticking with Chronicle for now. J.R. Bookwalter