A new personal finance, budget and expense control app. Simple, powerful and constantly evolving. Track your money the easy way, make better decisions and have a healthy financial life. With Finansi App you have a complete view of your personal finances.
Hi everyone!
3 YEARS plus making on the free time and the product has finally been launched. There still is a lot to be done, but it is already OK for use.
The story is: I work in tech and wanted to study some technologies. One option would be to simply read stuff over the internet. Another one would be to go further than reading and starting coding examples. But I wanted to do something real while learning, so what would it be?
I've always been interested about finance and it is an important subject for everyone's life. The apps that I had tried for Personal Finance had many flaws: wrong calculations, slow, many bugs, excessively complicated interface, not good for multiple currencies, not good for family sharing, etc.
So why not study while trying to make my own Personal Finance App? 3 years later, here I am and Finansi App is ready.
"Disclosure": I'm not a new developer. I'm 32 now and have been programming since I was 12. In 2019, another app that I made was awarded by Google as the best overall app of Brazil.
The goals were:
- Have full offline support
- Have full internationalization support
- Have no delay while using
- Have family and friends sharing
- Be full serverless
Technologies:
- Flutter for the app
- Python/Django for some backend stuff
- Node/TS/Firebase Cloud Functions for some backend stuff
- 2 databases: Amazon Aurora, Firebase Firestore
- 2 local app storages: SQLite and Secure Storage
- 2 cloud storages: Amazon S3 and Firebase Storage
- Crashlytics and Bugsnag for bug tracking
- Firebase Cloud Messaging and OneSignal for pushes
- Firebase Dynamic Links plus another custom implementation
- Firebase Authentication for some things, custom JWT following security standards for other stuffs
- AWS SES for emails
- AWS + Serverless.com for some infrastructure stuff
There is still a lot to be done, mostly regarding charts, transactions analytics, forecasting, etc. I have pushed hard to avoid bugs but as it still has few users, you might encounter something.
This might not be the fanciest designed app and look simple, but it will work smoothly and does the job masterfully. You can also export everything to Excel by the way.
Feedbacks are greatly welcome. I only work on this on my free time, it will be evolving but not as fast as I would like.
Thank you all!
Some feedback -
1. Don't make me create an account without letting me see / experience the app first. Let me move around the app first and then tell me to create an account if I want to "save data on cloud" / "sync data" etc.
2. I'm still not sure what's the difference between free and pro subscription. OR is there no free version beyond the one week trial?
3. Animations are very slow.
@vicky_buddie Thank you very much for having a look and taking your time to write about it!
1. You are right, I will see if there is a way to work around this since I didn't technically build the app to handle this scenario. This could be a big effort, I cannot guarantee that it will be implemented any soon.
2. Good to know, as I'm familiar with it I did not notice. I will build a better paywall for the next versions. To answer, the free version has no end. The difference is that in the free version you are limited to 4 accounts, 8 categories, 4 subcategories per category, have no file attachments and cannot share accounts/categories with family or friends. The premium version has no such limitations.
3. I suspected they were slow but did not have much feedbacks about this. I will make them a bit faster in the next releases.
2. and 3. are easy to solve and on the way, thanks again!
@vicky_buddie Hi! I have just sent for deploy a version enhancing the paywall, fastening the animations and improving some other aspects. It should be available on Google Play in the next hours and in App Store in the next day, because of the Apple Review time. Thanks!
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