Database restore has been fixed in 1.3.1, sorry for any inconvenience!
16
Feb 10
Financisto 1.3.0
Financisto has been updated to 1.3.0. There are a number of new features and improvements:
- There are now 2 separate account types for Debit and Credit cards
- For credit card account you can specify limit amount and it will be shown in the account list
- CSV export has been improved – date/time format has been changed to ISO 8601 standard, parent category has been included into the format
- Date/time now formatted according to system settings
- Calculator bug has been fixed
- And some more cosmetic UI changes and bug-fixes has been made
After initial release I found that account list layout has been broken on some devices with Android 1.5 (HTC Hero for example). Temporary fix has been applied.
Don’t forget that there is now Bug Tracker available – please don’t hesitate to submit bug reports and feature requests.
06
Feb 10
Financisto 1.2.9 : Back in business
It’s been a while.. New release of Financisto 1.2.9 is in the Market with ‘CSV Export’ and some improvements and bugfixes. If you own a Motorola Droid please check and let me know if the bug with Pin screen when clicking ‘Back’ button disappeared.
The format of CSV file is a subject to change and I’m open to discussion.
28
Dec 09
Financisto 1.2.8
Financisto 1.2.8 is in the Market. The release adds recurring budgets (monthly only at the moment), includes some improvements and bug-fixes.
26
Dec 09
What are category attributes for?
Starting from the very first version Financisto supports attributes for categories. Attributes are additional properties of a category. An attribute can be some text, number, a value from a list or a boolean flag. You can create any number of attributes for any particular category. If you have a child category then all attributes from the parent category will be automatically inherited.
Use attributes to make special notes, attached to a transaction under a particular category. For example: imagine you have a category ‘Car’ and sub-category ‘Fuel’. You can create an number attribute for the ‘Fuel’ sub-category and name it ‘Mileage’. Now when you pay for the fuelling at the gas station, you create a transaction under ‘Car->Fuel’ category and you can put your current mileage in the attribute field. The attribute can be ‘Litres’ as well to note how much fuel you buy or a text attribute with the name ‘Gas station’ to note what gas station you used.
Some other examples:
- Text attribute ‘Movie name’ under ‘Leisure->Movies’ category
- Checkbox attribute ‘Tips included’ under ‘Restaurants’ category
- List attribute ‘Month’ with values ‘Jan;Feb;Mar;…’
There are more plans to utilize attributes in the future releases, but they are useful in the current state as well.
10
Dec 09
INTERNET permission in Financisto
Today my coleagues asked me a very valid question – “Why does Finanacisto require INTERNET permission?! Are you nuts?! That’s personal information we’re talking about!” 
Financisto uses this permission for Google Maps and to download currency rates in transfer dialog. Unfortunately there is no option for a user to deny any permission for an application while installing it, so you’ll have to trust me – Financisto doesn’t publish any information to the Net.
But the point is taken – I’m considering to modularize the application. Divide it into separate pieces with different sets of permissions. With main application require, ideally, no permissions at all and additional modules like ‘Location Module’ and ‘Currency Rate Module’. Hope it will work. No ETA though.
05
Dec 09
Screencast: How to add an account
We going to publish more materials about how to effectively use Financisto to improve you experience with it. Here is the first screencast of the series explaining how to add an account:
Mind the traffic ~1.3 Mb
29
Nov 09
Financisto 1.2.7
Financisto 1.2.7 has just been released in the Market. New features has been added to improve user experience with new transaction/transfer screen.
First of all, you can now set in the preferences what parameters of the last transaction to remember. Please check out the preferences, there is a new screen called “New transaction screen”:
25
Nov 09
Financisto 1.2.6
Following yesterday’s release, new version of Financisto 1.2.6 is available in the Market. It’s a maintenace release with minor bug-fixes.
