TheCashster is a simple Expense tracking software for Android. It is meant as a companion to TheBankster but should work fine alone.
The goal is to keep expense tracking as simple as possible:
- pick the place you're at
- enter the amount you spent
- click Done - because you are
There are no categories to pick, no budgets to create or anything complicated. All your expenses are logged to a Google Sheets spreadsheet - that's where you can do whatever complicated reporting you want.
TheCashster is available on Google Play and on Github.
The application needs a few permissions. Here's what they are used for.
ACCESS_FINE_LOCATIONYou will be asked for permission to "access this device's location" when you start the app. It is required to locate where you are and suggest nearby places.GET_ACCOUNTSYou will be asked to allow to "access your contacts" when you save your first expense. This is required to access your phone's Google account which is used to authenticate at the Google Sheets API.INTERNETThis permission is granted on installation and allows the app to access the internet to talk to Foursquare and Google.VIBRATEThis enables the haptic feedback when clicking the number buttons. The permission is granted on installation.
When starting up the app, a list of nearby places will appear automatically based on your current location. The places are provided by FourSquare.
Select the place you're at and you're ready to submit an expense. Places that have been used by you are stored on your device and will be suggested at the top next time you're near. You can recognize those places by the little star ★ symbol.
You can delete locally stored ★ places by long pressing on them and confirm the deletion.
If you can't find what you're looking for, use the search at the top of the screen. It is used to request places matching what you entered. You will also get the opportunity to simply create a local ★ place based on your input.
By default the search for places is restricted to nearby locations. Swipe down the list to increase the search radius. Repeat to further increase the radius.
The moment you save your first expense, TheCashster will create a new Google Sheets spreadsheet for you. Your installation is then associated with this spreadsheet and all expenses will be logged to it.
Because the spreadsheet is identified by an internal ID you're free to rename or move it. You can also edit the formatting, rename the column headers or add additional sheets. You can safely remove rows if you accidentally tracked a wrong expense.
You should however not change the order of the columns and you have to keep in mind that data is tracked on the very first sheet of the document.
There is currently no way to associate TheBankster with an existing spreadsheet. This means whenever you reinstall the app it will create a new spreadsheet and there is no way to have the app on two devices track to the same spreadsheet. Support for that might come later.
TheCashster is Open Source and licensed under the MIT License
Copyright 2017 Andreas Gohr
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This App uses the Google Play Services to access your device's last location and to connect to your Google Sheets account. This app has no access to any other private information.
Crash and usage data may be transferred to Google.
Your location is sent to Foursquare to get a list of nearby places. No personal information is sent with that request.
None of your personal identifiable data is transferred to to me, the author of the application. I may receive anonymous usage statistics through Google.
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