GnuCash

GnuCash

About this app

GnuCash is a mobile finance expense tracker application for Android.

It is a companion application for GnuCash for the desktop and enables flexible tracking of expenses on-the-go which can be exported to QIF or GnuCash XML formats.

Some of feature highlights include:

• An easy-to-use interface.

• Chart of Accounts: A master account can have a hierarchy of detail accounts underneath it.
This allows similar account types (e.g. Cash, Bank, Stock) to be grouped into one master account (e.g. Assets).
You can also import an existing account hierarchy from GnuCash desktop.

• Split Transactions: A single transaction can be split into several pieces to record taxes, fees, and other compound entries.

• Double Entry: Every transaction must debit one account and credit another by an equal amount. This ensures that the "books balance": that the difference between income and outflow exactly equals the sum of all assets, be they bank, cash, stock or other.

• Income/Expense Account Types (Categories): These serve not only to categorize your cash flow, but when used properly with the double-entry feature, these can provide an accurate Profit&Loss statement.

• Scheduled Transactions: GnuCash has the ability to automatically create and enter transactions.

• Export to GnuCash XML, QIF or OFX: GnuCash can export your accounts/transactions in different formats for use in other programs. Also, scheduled exports to 3rd-party sync services like DropBox and Google Drive can be enabled.

• Reports: View summary of transactions (income and expenses) as pie/bar/line charts

• Homescreen widget for quick access to your accounts and recording of transactions


NOTE: that the app does not offer full compatibility with GnuCash for the desktop. You cannot synchronize between the desktop app and this one. But you can import your accounts and transactions from GnuCash XML files.

Ratings and reviews

Great companion mobile app to the desktop application. Easy to track finances on the go. It is a bit buggy and lacks some features that would benefit quality of life, but unfortunately seems not to be receiving any more updates since 2018. Hope that changes someday, but the dev has not been heard from by anyone since then.

It's a good starting point in learning to track and manage finances. Areas to improve: 1. Have option to backup via Google drive. 2. Have option to take pictures (eg receipts, invoices, bills etc) and attach them to the transaction. 3. Have an option to link between Mobile and desktop versions.

Love this app. Been using for more than 2 years and I've been able to keep a track of all my assets and expenses quite well. One thing I'd like to see is a calendar view of the transactions to easily navigate to certain transactions knowing the date. More visualizations would also be cool. There's a lot of data that can spin some really nifty views!

What's new

Adds CSV export
Fix scheduled transactions crash on Android 8
Fix compatibility with Gnucash desktop (v2.7 and up) XML files
Fix crash during QIF export due to higher fraction currencies
Fix backups taking up too much space