Android, iOS

A veteran among financial managers, one of the most in-demand apps on iOS and Android in the finance category received a relaunch in 2014. The new version of CoinKeeper has changed its monetization model, looking more modern and matching the style of iOS 7 and Android Lollipop. At the same time, the developers continued to support the old version of the CoinKeeper Classic app for users with well-established preferences.

The most important difference between CoinKeeper and other similar programs is the original and very unusual way to keep financial records using gestures. To add an expense, you have to drag the account icon to the desired category and enter the amount. Admittedly, this is the fastest way to add a transaction – it saves the user from unnecessary actions and is suitable for other financial operations, such as transferring funds between accounts or depositing them. Gestures can also be used to organize categories on the screen. With this control, the advantage of the application is its interface, where all the main elements are on one screen.

An interesting feature of CoinKeeper is the ability to specify a monthly limit for each category. When such a limit is set, the category icon takes on a color fill that fills up as it is exhausted, signaling a possible overspending of funds. The manager’s statistics are not too detailed: this is general information on expenses and income in the form of a pie chart, a report by day and the basic dynamics of financial transactions in the form of a graph. All in all, everything looks very solid. The most significant disadvantages of CoinKeeper are the lack of multi-currency accounts and multi-currency transactions, and the ability to import your own data.

CoinKeeper is distributed on a subscription basis which opens up features that are missing or limited in the free version of the application. These include: unlimited accounts, expense categories, statistics for any period, adding a budget, exporting data, and synchronization between devices.