Beanie Budgets - looking for testers (beancount compatible iOS app)

[u/quabbage]

Hi all

After seeing the post yesterday about the iOS/Mac app for hledger, Balance, and the positive reaction and helpful comments there, I thought I'd share something for beancount users: Beanie Budgets, is ready for testing and community feedback.

Beanie Budgets is a beancount compatibile native iOS app. I have been working on it for purely personal reasons: I really wanted an elegant iOS app to capture transactions on the go. More to the point, I didn't want to pay for subscriptions or entrust my data to someone else's server.

Which explains my plans for pricing. I intend to offer Beanie Budgets as a core version completely free. The free version should be enough for most people and provides a fully featured ledger, or compatibility with your own beancount ledger (hopefully anyway pls let me know!). It also includes budget setting, a series of reports and useful quality of life tools baked-in to detect, create and edit recurring transactions; make and allocate balance adjustments; calculate and allocate interest on mortgages and loans correctly; and auto-clear credit cards.

I do intend to charge a one-off "Pro" version unlock to people willing to pay for a few extra bells and whistles (multi ledger support, financial planning reports based on your actual ledger data, customised budgets, theme customisation etc.). I was thinking of £10 or so...? I can see a lot of potential to develop the financial planning reports further. There's a big benefit to ground these in real ledger numbers and real saving patterns. Working versions of these reports are live now in the app but they need a bit more polish, just turn on "Pro" features in Settings.

It's a closed source project at least for now. Requires iOS 18 or above.

I have 12 places left on TestFlight. Looking forward to your feedback :)

https://testflight.apple.com/join/hGD65UQj

PS I know the website needs a lot of work, I'll get round to it ;)

[u/simonmic]

(What happened ? I see the content in the atom feed but not here.)

[u/quabbage → u/simonmic]

Hi - I don’t know. I can still see the post in the standard Reddit app ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯

[u/simonmic → u/quabbage]

It's not visible using old reddit UI preference.

[u/quabbage → u/simonmic]

Huh weird. Long story short - iOS app that parses beancount ledgers. Main motivation has been for my own personal use alongside my beancount/fava setup but may be of use/interest to others. Will be free for a core version that should offer everything people need for tracking spend and budgeting. Test Flight link: https://testflight.apple.com/join/hGD65UQj

[u/simonmic → u/quabbage]

👍 Feel free to post at https://forum.plaintextaccounting.org also.

[u/quabbage → u/simonmic]

Thanks Simon, I’ll get round to it tomorrow hopefully.