May 2004 Archives

After considerable work, i have decided that it's time to let loose my latest creation. Much time has passed since my last project, and i've learned a lot more about programming in Cocoa since then (listens for sighs of relief).

SpendThrift is a personal finance tool, designed for simple day-to-day use, but incorporating a number of useful features that one might ordinarily need more expensive stuff for.

Incidentally, sometime when i was about halfway through this project, i saw an article in Macworld that went over many such programs. It's important to point out that any similarities between this and those are utterly coincidental, as any look at the source code will make abundantly clear. Here i was, patting myself on the back for working on software that Apple themselves hadn't already made unnecessary, but i obviously underestimated the extent to which others had.

All that said, i think that SpendThrift in its initial incarnation has a lot to offer:
- Tracking of day-to-day expenses
- User-defined, dynamically updating categorization
- View by category
- Easy roll-back view to earlier dates in account history
- Scheduled transactions
- Interest scheduling
- Bar Graph views
- Report generation
- Export to spreadsheet

So, try it out. You might like it, and at worst, hey, it exports to Excel. Nothing lost, right?

Downloads:
SpendThrift 528a: SpendThrift, version 28 May 2004
Source Code: Source code in Project Builder format (available soon when it's less embarrassing)
Read Me: Read Me file

Screenshots:

Questions, suggestions, comments, compliments, or complaints are abundantly welcome. Tell me how much it sucks.