Best iPhone apps for personal finance
Posted
May 21 2009, 07:34 PM
by
Karen Datko
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How many ways is your iPhone saving you money? If you've overlooked its personal-finance potential, David at My Two Dollars lists 10 PF applications he's trying out.
David Weliver at Money Under 30 topped My Two Dollars' David with a list of his 16 favorite money-management iPhone apps. Banking, buying stocks and tracking your spending are just the beginning. The only finance activity these apps can't do is make money grow on trees. And many are free or dirt cheap.
(This brings to mind a Live Search apps competition we're shamelessly promoting. You could win a $10,000 prize by designing a Web-based application that helps people deal with the economy. For more about it, read this, this and this. There's also a message board thread about it here.)
Here are a few examples from David Weliver's post:
- Find the nearest ATM. MasterCard's ATM Hunter app could come in handy if you're in a strange city.
- Calculate the tip. He recommends Tipulator. (You're right, David, we should be able to do this in our heads. Whatever.)
- Compare prices. Save Benjis gets a rave review for its ability to compare the price of an item you're looking at with its price at other stores. "Actually, Save Benjis has garnered a lot attention for its ability to transform the way we spend," David says.
- For budgeting, he recommends Pennies. Once your budget is set up, you can conveniently record your spending.
MoneyNing also has a great list with recommendations, but keep in mind that it's nearly a year old. A more current list of 25 can be found at Resource Nation. Also, Trent Hamm at our partner blog The Simple Dollar posted about his 10 favorite iPhone PF apps.
For more lighthearted reading, see Andy Jordan's Wall Street Journal post about "crap apps."
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