iPhone app that includes synchronization (cont'd)

Sean,

Thanks for replying!

Wow! That would be great!

Can't wait! Any ETA?

I want MD to kick Intuit's sorry bottom, and I believe this just might do it.

Hi Sean - MD of iPhone would be AWESOME!!! I have a short list of things that would make my iPhone perfect...and now that a syncable eWallet is out, MD is on the top of my list. Keep up the great work!

David

Hi, I'm new here. I've been looking to replace my MS Money (2004) and really miss a synchronisation to a mobile device (my Ipaq died three years ago)

I will move to MD and buy the ipod touch app too if you can get it launched. I'm also keen to buy a linux web book (asus 901) so would probably end up buying a linux version too.

As mentioned by other posters, full synchronisation is the key, I already have .mac so please feel free to use that!!

please keep us updated, and as a programme manager building contact centre systems, I fully understand why you don't want to publish a date until you are ready...

Mooseman

Will I be able to use the app on my iPod Touch when I don't have an active internet connection and just sync it at a later time?

Like Mooseman, I also used to use MS Money 2004 on a PC and the mobile app on a Pocket PC and, now that I have decided to give up on Microsoft products and dump all my money into Apple related products, I got an iMac and am looking for a similar program I can use on it and also on an iPod Touch.

I'm an iPod Touch user, and providing you come up with an app that synchs via iTunes update I would switch from iBank in a minute. For example, I use the Things GTD app (which is what convinced me to get an iPod Touch) and it synchs when I plug my iPod into my Macbook. I have no plans to get a Mobile Me account so that option would be of zero interest to me.

I'm interested it this, too. I'm not sure I would like all of my MD data on my iPhone, but I would like to be able to enter a transaction on the phone and have the transaction added/imported to the MD data on my desktop when I sync.

Maybe this functionality would be good for an "initial release"?

Add me in as another Moneydance user eagerly awaiting the iPhone app!

Hi Sean - are you still working on an iPhone app? Thanks, David

Yes, I'd love to be a beta tester too. However, I'm not sure if there is a mechanism in place for that. If there is can a couple of us try it? In the past I've used Quicken, MS Money, and Kiplinger's Simply Money. Moneydance beats them all...and to have that on the iPhone will be AWESOME!
Thanks, David

I volunteer!!

I'd like to do some beta testing.

I would love to beta test, too. If it matters, I have worked professionally in QA. I know how to write up a bug with a thorough description, how to test for repeatability, etc.

Id beta test as well

I'd be excite to beta-test when the time comes. *Please* utilize the "large-number/phone-style" keypad for inputing numbers, ala Pennies. This is key and I cannot believe why every finance app doesn't do this!

Hi Sean, Any update on the status of the iPhone app?

I'll volunteer to help test the beta version.

Glad to hear that the iPhone app is coming along, and please count me in as a beta tester.

Hi, i'd like to beta test too. Ta moose

Waiting anxiously for the beta test!

Too cool...so glad I "asked" this question again on this forum. Can't wait to beta test it. Keep up the good work, Sean. I'm a developer too and can't imagine all of the hooks you have to work out to get it to sync with the iPhone.

I'll be a beta tester as well.

I'm keen for the Iphone version as well, and would love to beta for you.

I would love to be added to the beta program as well!

Thanks!

I would like to be added too

I would be happy to beta test an iPhone version of MoneyDance.

add me to the moneydance iphone app fan/looking forward to the iphone version/please please add me to your beta user list ;) great job with the app, Sean and i'm happy to wait as long as it takes for you guys to get it as right as you got the desktop version. thanks so much for all the hard work—you guys made a user-friendly, mac-friendly, wallet-friendly program to manage money—who knew it could be done?

I would gladly switch from Q to MD and beta test too!! I am not thrilled with Q's decision to charge a monthly fee for their upcoming service.

I'm a little late to the game here, but I've been using (and liking) MD since April and also a recent iPod Touch owner (loving it).

Rather than a full blown financial app, have you considered modules? You could offer incremental functionality now - some mix of both free and paid. Perhaps you could build a suite of mini-apps on your way to offering a master app. Maybe the apps could integrate as you add them - so there is one app on the device building towards the master app. Or maybe this could be parallel to the master app. I'm sure there are not insignificant technical issues to make this work.

Free apps may compel folks to try before they buy - helping with beta testing and de-bugging along the way. I see MD branded calculators, a stock ticker, account balance query and transaction search; whatever you have working now.

Its an awesome platform. Do you think Apple would let you do something like that?

This forum is weird.

Hang in there and keep up the good work!

Mr. Reilly, keep up the good work. I look forward to the day when a MD app is available for my iPhone so that I may add transactions on the go. And I too would like to be considered for beta testing.

Count me in for beta! I'm very excited about this.

Hi,

Add me to the list of people that would buy MD when the iPhone app is ready. It is key for me. Although, I must say the fact that there is current progess reports on this forum may get me to buy MD earlier, knowing the iPhone app is coming.

Hi Sean. I would love to be a beta tester also. Heck, I'd even give an alpha version a go, if you wanted early feedback! ;)

Any updates on the progress?

I'm also happy to serve as a beta tester. I'm excited that you're making this a priority.

:bump: I think there is a lot of interest in this app. Is it still being developed?

Sean et. al.,
I apologize if this is a distraction, but I wanted to offer my services as a beta tester (which I also tossed on the blog) as well.

As far as syncing, I am currently beta testing icalc for Mariner software, and they are using bonjour to sync. I also use omni focus, and it uses the mobile me/ webdav sync. It seems to me the network sync is easier than cable as the restrictions on the SDK. You do not need Mobile me for Webdav. I know it is built into leopard and am running it on my machine. I think you can create a server for free on Windows as well. Though setting either up take some work, and a bit more than the average consumer I think. There may be issues with Bonjour and synced files. Calc just uses it to transfer them. Omni is working on Bonjour, but I do not think it is finished yet.

I started developing my own app, but as I have had no object c education (and limited java), I did not get much further than the tutorials I could find. Anyone want a blank blue app that says "Hello World" at the touch of a button? How about a calculator? No, I did not think so. Anyway, keep up the good work. Keep the faith, the one thing I have learned already is Apple is inconsistent when you need to update versions or users or whatever.

Thank you again. This product rocks.

Sean, I am glad I can help. This will be wonderful. There was a quandry in both previously mentioned products about pricing. The issue is, the development takes so much work, yet there are free or stripped down apps already out there. In both cases(and yours as well I think), it is about the value of the the app. I know I would pay 50 for a full version of excel, and after that, I will not have a problem shelling out some coin to track some. Sorry if I jumped the gun talking about price. Keep up the good work.

Been very very tempting to switch to squirrel or another app that has an iphone version. But, the continued development of Moneydance keeps me hanging in. Please give us a iPhone version very very soon, I would of course still love to beta test.

1 more quick query -- while we're waiting for the full app, is there another iPhone app that will allow us to enter transactions which can then be uploaded to Moneydance when we get home? Seems like this oughtn't to be too difficult ....

ok, fair enough, Sean! Just do please bear in mind that I -- and lots of other Moneydance users as well, to judge by the comments I see here -- don't need an all-singing-all-dancing Moneydance app -- just a simple tool for uploading new transactions would be just fine!

Kind regards,

Sarah

I would love to beta test as well for MD iphone version. please include me. and we are all waiting holding our breath....

Is there any word yet on when this might be available? I can not wait for a way to sync MD on the desktop with my Iphone.

I'd like to reinforce Sarah's point. And I think that a fancy sync'ing iPhone app has a high cool factor but a really, really low usefulness factor. There's a whole long list of MD improvements, mostly in the reporting area, that I'd like to see at much higher priority than an iPhone app.

The only thing I can think I'd like to be able to do with MD on my iPhone is to make a note of select transactions at the time I make the transaction - for example, if I'm paying in several cheques at the bank it would be handy to enter them on my iPhone while it's fresh in my mind who they're all from. Little things like that - but even then, I suspect it might be more trouble than it's worth. In general I'd much rather wait until I get back to my computer than fiddle with the iPhone.

And just so's you know, I'm not a Luddite, I really go for cool stuff, especially on the iPhone - and in particular I could rave for hours about the EasyTask app with iPhone sync because that's actually very, very useful. It's just that I'm pragmatic about what I think would be useful for MD on the iPhone. No point in doing a lot of coding for something that people don't actually use except occasionally to show off to their friends between the beer app and the coffeeshop app.

I also want the ability to synch with the iPhone. I'm currently a Quicken user and am about to switch to MD by recommendation from a friend. iPhone access would be the tip of the iceberg for me! Any updates?

Sean, I'm a QA Engineer at AMD for Driver and BIOS development. I would love to offer my QA experience in fettering out any bugs on the iPhone version of this app.

Its quite a list already but I would be keen to hep out with any testing

Can you provide us with a timeline for the iPhone app. Reason I ask is that I have started looking at moving over to Cha-Ching on the Mac, something I've been playing with for a while and they have now just released their iPhone client. I don't want to lay down the cash for that if the MD iPhone app is imminent. And anyway, my preference is MD!

Featurewise all I personally need from an initial release is the ability to enter transactions on the go and see current balances. Work on the bells & whistles once we've got something functional in our grubby little hands!

Hope to hear something soon.

I was facing the same decision and, in the face of uncertainty, I just decided to take the plunge. I'm in the process of setting up Cha-Ching 2 (still beta) and have two iPhones working with it so far (Cha-Ching Touch).

At some point in the future, I'll likely switch back to MoneyDance when a mobile version is released. To everyone else contemplating this decision, I wish you the best.

I find the lack of a comment from Infinite Loop a bit disappointing, even if to say "we're still working on it, hang on!". There's been nothing regarding progress for 2 months on this thread. Oh well, looks like I'll be moving fulltime to Cha-Ching - goodbye Moneydance....

@Sean - apologies, my Apple obsessed mind combined with the fact it was only 7.45am got my infinites mixed up!

I'm not sure I am doing this right. I was told to post to this thread regarding my volunteering for the iPod Beta program for your product.

If I can be of any help in developing your iPod Touch software, please let me know and I'll be glad to do so.

So, how do you know how to reach me if You're interested in taking me up on this offer?

Any news on this? I am thinking about buying one of the apps out there that just let's me enter transactions on my iPod and export them to QIF, since this is all I'm looking to be able to do (as I suspect most people in here want.) Please let me know if this might be ready any time soon before I buy another program. (Although I, probably like most of us, am losing faith since I thought this would be at least ready for beta testing over 6 months ago.)

You're not really expecting it, are you?
I love Moneydance but if you find an application that will sync to a desktop version, and it isn't SplashMoney, let me know, too.

Sean,
that sounds great! I'm really excited for this! :-) I like how you provided "proof" too.

Excellent! Is there any sort of official spot for private beta signup or is it just everyone in here or something?

Shucks, now I have to actually post to this thread rather than just following it. :)

If beta testers are still needed, I would love to help.

Wow, this is wonderful. Thank you. It is an incredible looking app.

Sean this is great news I am glad to see that you are getting real close to releasing a private beta. As stated before I am ready and willing to help out.

Very good! I would love to be a tester. I have worked professionally in QA and know how to track bugs down as to repeatability, etc.

I would love to help test this as well.

I would like to be part of the iPhone beta as well. Thanks!

Add me to list of beta testers as well! This app is one that I have been waiting for. I can test on an original iPhone and iPhone 3G. I will probably get a 3GS in August as well.

I'd really like an iPhone app to synchronize with my desktop Moneydance. Then I could enter my data during downtime at work and never lose a transaction.

If you've still got room, I would love to beta.

Just making sure I'm on your mailing list for beta-testing the new app!

If there's room, I'd love to to beta test the app.

I'd like to beta test the new moneydance iphone app. I'm @masonatkinson on twitter

I volunteer to purchase the program if it's (a) ever released (b) good and (c) reasonably priced.

I'd like to help test the iPhone beta.

I'm interested in beta-testing the iPhone app!

I'm interested in beta.

I'd love the beta!

I'm Interested in the beta as well.

I'd love to help test the beta.

I would love to beta test the new iPhone software. I use Moneydance everyday on my Mac.

I would love to help out with the beta!

I'd like to take part in the beta too if at all possible.

Not wanting to be a wet blanket but I'm still very annoyed that Infinite Kind continues to waste time on this frivolity when the basic functionality of the app, which I have ALREADY PAID FOR is so woefully lacking. I like gadgets as much as or more than the next guy (I've got my iPhone 3GS already!) but how about some more attention to table-stakes functionality?

Yo Howard--dry your blanket, mate. Whatever issues you're complaining about should be posted as other items. You're in the wrong thread.

Sign me up for the Beta.

sign me up! i love me some steamy hot iphone accounting action

I would love to help with beta-testing

I would love to help with beta-testing

sign me up for beta.

Please sign me up for the beta.

I would love to help with the beta. Sign me up!

Please sign me up for the beta. I'm looking to move to linux and would love to get away from Quicken.

OMG OMG OMG.

Please sign me up for the beta! I’ve been using QuickBank on my iPhone up until now. MoneyDance likes the QIF files it generates just fine, but a seamless sync experience would be sooooo much better!

Hi Sean, I also would love to beta test the Moneydance Iphone app. if you still have space. Thanks,

Gene

I'd love to beta test for the iPhone app.

I would also like to be a beta tester. Sign me up! THANKS!

Hi I would also love to be included in the beta if possible. Thanks!

MMmmm.. Beta testing... hook me up :D

Please add me to the beta. Thanks.

I'd love to be involved in the beta. I'm a Mac user with an iPhone 3G.

Count on me. Love to participate in the beta.
I own a 3G iPhone.

Please sign me up... I have an iPhone 3GS.

Please sign me up as well. I have iPhone first gen

I'd like to beta test also

Please sign me up for the beta.
I own a iPhone 3GS in France.

looking forward to testing the beta...

I'd like to beta test also

Please sign me up...I would love to beta test. I have an iPhone 3GS.

I'd love to be a part of the private beta program for the iPhone app. jeffreymichaelulrich@gmail.com. Thanks! Jeff

I'm a 3gs guy who'd love to beta test. Thanks!

I too have a 3GS & a little experience with testing - I would lve to e a part of this. Thanks. -k

hey, i have an iphone, macpro, and macbook. i'd love to be included in the beta. now that i'm visiting more client sites, it'd be nice to document on the road. (if i could only figure out how to make my iphone battery last longer...)

I would very much like to participate in the private beta test program for the iphone app. I am using Mondeydance on both an iMAC and Windows Vista PC.

I have a 3G, am a knowledgeable MD user and computer technician. Additionally, I have a robust home network and am hoping the iPhone app will access my XXX.MD file from my home server..?

please sign me up for the beta testing!

your beta announcement (on the blog) isn't allowing any email to be sent to signup@moneydance.com, it bounces back with error " it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further information about the cause of this error. The error that the other server returned was: 550 550 5.1.1 <signup@moneydance.com>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (state 14)."

I'm interested in the beta, too

Great news!

That's awesome, I love the app. Any idea when it will go public?

Please add me to the list of beta testers for the iPhone app. Thanks!

Per my request 6 months ago, I'm still interested in helping with the beta test. But nevermind all that, would you consider embracing the open source notion of "Release Early, Release Often" so anyone interested can use the software? A small disclaimer indicating its a beta release and there might be glitches, plus a link to forums or a blog should suffice.

Would be 100% behind participating in a beta test! Live on my iPhone (1.5 charges a day) and spend a lot of time with input into moneydance (on a tight budget), have desperately been awaiting the possibility of syncing!

I would love to be a beta tester.

Great news- I'd also like to be a beta tester.

Please sign me up as an iPhone beta tester as well!

I'd like to be a beta tester too!

So this is my pig-ignorant question about the upcoming iPhone app, entirely based on the two screenshots you posted:

For me, the essentials in entering a transaction are:

Account (yup)
To/From (I'm sure that's one of the fields I can see)
Amount (yup)
Category (not sure I see that field?)
Memo (???)

Will it be possible to select a category for the transaction?

Also, will it be possible to enter a brief description of the transaction, so that by the time I upload it to my computer (possibly a couple of weeks later if I'm traveling) I can remember what the heck it was I purchased? I'm sure I could reconstruct the category if I could enter a description on the go...

Thanks for your awesome app and all your hard work on an iPhone companion :)

I would love be test the beta!!

The Apps should include a sync between mac and iphone

I'm signing up!

Very exciting. I ditched MS Money when I heard it was discontinued. I came across Money Dance and it sounded cool. Then I read about an iPhone app on the blog. That sealed the deal. I have never found a really solid PDA app that would sync with a desktop since my old Palm V with an app called UltraSoft Money about 10 years ago. I look forward to getting a solid sync solution for the iPhone. Most of the sync apps are overdone making entree to involved. Judging by Money Dance's simplicity I have no doubt they can pull off a nice slim easy to use iPhone App. Yipee. :)

I really would like to be added to your beta program !!!

Been a MD user on pc for 1 year plus now, just got a ipod touch and were looking ard for a finance app until i saw this thread, its like a dream come true.please add me to the beta program!!!

If you would like an additional beta tester, sign me up. Thank you.

Hello , a french user also very interested to decome a beta tester , please sign me up too

...looking forward to seeing the iphone version of MD. I'm moving from Treo/Palm/pocketquicken (great sync, but outdated tech)...

I am interested in the Iphone app.

I'm very very interested in the iphone app and to test it in a beta stage.

I've an iphone 3GS 16 GB not jailbroken.

I used a lot of OS for mobiles (windows mobile, pocketpc, palm) and a lot of personal finance managers both for pc and mobile (like Microsoft Money, Quicken for windows, SplashMoney for windows/mac and for windows mobile/iphone, pocket money for iphone and so on).

I'm also available to translate it from english to italian (both mac and iphone version).

Best regards,

Maurizio

I'm interested in the iphone app!

John Parniak

I am interested in participating in this iPhone App beta test.

I'm also looking forward to the release of Moneydance for iPhone. I'd be very interested in joining the beta testers.