Our Budget Book

Mavi Software

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About this app

Easy income and spending management for your family with "Our Budget Book": Keep an eye on your money in self-created categories. Create monthly bookings. Use the report page to see a graphical overview of your finances. Synchronize several installations of the app on different devices via Google Drive.

All features:
• Plan your personal finances and keep track of your spending
• Free categories for income and expenses
• Material design for Android 2.3 and higher
• Synchronization across multiple devices with Google Drive
• Various color themes
• Report page with several diagrams
• Optional Pin protection
• Optimized for use on tablets

How to use Google Drive Sync:
When you hit the synchronize button the first time, the app creates the file "BBSync.bin" in your Google Drive. The file will be used for further synchronizations. You can move the file to another folder on your Google Drive and share the file with your family members so they can edit it and use it for synchronization too.

The permissions are needed for the ads and the synchronization.

Ratings and reviews

Works well enough and is simple once you get used to it. Has some guidance as to what functions do what but with trial and error you get there. My first gripe is the repeat transactions. It's hit or miss on how it works. Some apply correctly and others apply them into the future and also forever into the past, skewing the data. 3* update: sharing app with husband, synchronization hardly works. Have to force sync sometimes 15 or more times before it shows changes.

I gave this app 3 stars because it looks promising, unfortunately it seems to be missing a calander mode which is extremely important. Other budget apps could learn a lot from the budget calander app, it's simple but by far the most useful of all the ones I've tried. Also, after entering my first transaction, an ad popped up and I have about 100 transactions between me and my GF to add on a budget app, no way I was going to deal with 100 ads to see if I want to buy the app.

I really love this app and will likely buy the paid version. I would like to see a way to add a category to transfers, so that they show up against my budget. Right now I'm using paired expense/income entries and it is a bit akward. Also it would be amazing to have sub catagories for accounts, so that I can see my total savings vs what I have put aside for hockey/emergency/etc. Again I am using multiple accounts, but then I don't have a subtotal of my savings. Otherwise , it's amazing!

What's new

New in version 7.6
* Google has tightened the security rules for accessing Google Drive.
* It is therefore no longer possible for the app to access shared content from other Google accounts.
* If you want to continue sharing the app, you need to use the same Google Account everywhere.
* You can also create a new shared Google Account for this purpose.
* Furthermore, the update fixes problems with CSV export and HTML export on Android 11.