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Expense Tracker

I've created an Expense Tracker tool that me and my wife use, and I wanted to start a thread here to see what opinions or feedback people might have. The app is in the Android Market called "Expense Tracker" by teleknEsis.
It works as follows:
Register with email/password then login
Manage (Add/Edit/Delete) the categories for your expenses
Create Expense Periods for tracking by specifying Start Date and End Date
Add Income or Expenses inside an Expense Period.
Balance (Income - Expenses) is shown at the top with the total spent on any categories entered.
Click on a category to see an itemized view of the expenses for that category.
Long-press individual items to Edit/Delete.
What really makes this app stand out, in my opinion, is that you can Share expense periods with other registered users. Long-press an Expense Period and choose 'Share' then either pick a contact from your phonebook or manually enter an email address. Manage who is sharing the expense period here too. Other users will then see your expense period once shared, and everyone can make edits to it in real time! Great for family or shared expenses!!
Let me know what you guys think - I'm curious to get some feedback. Thanks!
-teleknEsis

[Q] Any note-taking app that can link to Google contact?

There are so many note-taking apps out there and I have tried many of them, but none of them has the feature that I need.
I want a note-taking app to be able to linked directly from my contact list. I want to take note of each transactions made for each of my clients, based on their contacts. There may be more than 1 transaction for each contact so contacts' "Note" field is not sufficient for this task.
Does anyone know of any app that can do this?

How about this particular app?
Bubble - note Bubble Notes - Android Market
Bubble is a blast of brilliancy - notes show up when called like a live notepad.
Remember to share and ask everything you planned with your friends, family and colleague workers? Sounds like an advance task? Sounds like you need some sophisticated organizer for that? Well, Bubble application is a great product that can help you remember those thoughts.
Bubble is a note reminder app. Notes can be attached to your contacts and Bubble will display those notes on your incoming call screen enabling you to remember what you wanted to talk about in a very effective way.
Use Bubble to improve the productivity of your conversation: just choose your contact from Bubbles Contact List, read the list of notes and call straight from the Contacts Menu.
With Bubble have all your subjects ready for use whenever you get or make a call. Now you'll never forget to ask things you planned for example: how was the test of your date or how the job interview of your friend went. You can also use it as a diary at meetings – just look at the Contacts Menu and update it live during the meeting.
Three ways of organizing your contacts:
- Alphabetical order – regular order.
- Bubbles first – showing the contacts that have notes first.
- Last calls – so it is easy and convenient to add new notes to contacts you just spoke with.
Features:
- Contacts arrangement.
- Create and edit text notes for each contact.
- Bubble editor - choose the color of the notes and organize the notes order of a contact.
- Notification settings.
It is so easy and intuitive writing those notes and using this effective product for your memory, let Bubble help you remember and be more organized with your contacts.
Your memory, in bubbles.
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Thanks for the suggestion, though I would pretty much prefer an app that doesn't change my incoming calls UI, and a longer note (I don't need to see the note when they call, only when I open the app).
I was thinking if there's any app that can be integrated/linked inside contact like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, etc.

VOIP For expatriates, multi-country presence, & escaping carrier-bound phone numbers

VOIP For expatriates, multi-country presence, & escaping carrier-bound phone numbers
VOIP for Expatriates
The bottom line turned out to be, there is no good way to have worldwide phone connectivity unless all of the numbers you use are VOIP numbers, and the SIM/wireless provider simply becomes a wireless ISP. This started out an analysis for CallHippo, which I tried out for a month, but it branched out. So far, I've only worked with CallHippo, RingCentral, and Google Voice, and looked at GrassHopper and Phone.com. I've highlighted the other's differences in red. You might be able to somehow use MagicJack in the fit too. One thing to keep in mind is once you leave the SIM or standard PSTN, VOIP often requires 10-digit dialing. That many not matter to you, but it might to those calling you. 7-digit dialing requires a relationship between the PSTN provider and the phone company for your area.
Cost: The only CallHippo plan that makes any sense is the $15.00/$18.00 plan because the number is free, you get 800 incoming, and 200 outgoing minutes after which you pay a penny a minute. Additional numbers are $6.00/mo. from ~200 different countries.
Advantages:
1. The call quality and latency are good.
2. The call recording is good, and without the intrusive nonsense of, "this call is being recorded". It just works, and they back them up as well as your call logs. The advantages of this cannot be understated. Unless you are doing contracts over the phone you don't want that. Most people just want a note taker so you don't need to interfere with the conversation to write things down, especially while driving. It keeps track of time on calls for invoicing purposes. In most cases, it is not possible to know ahead of time if you will need to play it back later or they will be giving you numbers to write down etc.
3. Very flexible with multiple people using the same number at the same time and ring through to other devices, and using devices like extensions. This is different from something such as RingCentral and Phone.com which can use SIP devices because it assigns it a number on the PSTN. With Grasshopper, the device must already have a number in the PSTN to forward the call to, to use it as an extension, which must be Internet accessible, and has it's own voice mail and greetings per extension. Nothing is more feature-rich than RingCentral and it includes MMS, never-busy FAX number, video and call conferencing, and can manage and access everything from a soft-phone on a computer. Phone.com can do nearly as much, but no MMS. A big advantage of systems that can use a SIP device means you do not need to pay for cellular PSTN number to forward to, which requires the additional expense, and something that needs to change every time you change SIMs. With GrassHopper, every time you change SIMs or let your SIM lapse somewhere, you would have to reconfigure because you would lose your number to forward to. You can still forward, and you aren't counting minutes. If the end point for the number will be a cell phone, then CallHippo might make more sense.
4. It only costs $6.00/mo. for each additional line, which can be from ~200 different countries, giving you local presence in multiple countries from anywhere. RingCentral requires a $34.00 plan for the US plus a $44.00 plan plus a 2-year commitment. With Phone.com I can get 1 US line and 1 foreign line for $14.99/mo. by the year or $19.99/mo. by the month. You get 500 minutes and $.039/min. after that or you can buy a bigger plan. If they had Colombia, I'd go with it.
5. The overall combination of good call quality, call recording, flexible use of lines, and local presence in other countries for $6.00/line set it apart. Phone.com also supports a limited number foreign countries at a very practical cost, and would be by far the better way to go IF they support the countries you need.
Disadvantages:
1. Their web site is a confusing hodge-podge of pages that indicating it was built without a plan and pages added to piecemeal to add a capability. Signup was and getting things going was cruel and required multiple chats. RingCentral is very well done. Phone.com seemed like a bit of a put-off because it seems they want you to get a quote. However, it is actually by far the best. A real-live-American will assemble the features you need so it doesn't need to fit anything, and give you a quote where you are getting everything you need and nothing you don't, and at a better price than any other.
2. Competent support will not be available when you need it. This has been true in all but one case. RingCentral's support is good, and Phone.com's is off the charts.
3. CallHippo cannot dial from your Android contacts, nor does it's sync to contacts work. If you enter the numbers into CallHippo's directory by hand they will work but then you cannot use those CallHippo contacts anywhere else. If select a Contacts from Android Contacts to dial, it will return an error that the phone number not valid. This is the problem:
__a. In Android Contacts when you enter a phone number 1234567890 into Android, it will automatically format it to (123) 456-7890.
__b. The CallHippo directory stores contacts like this: 1234567890.
__c. The CallHippo Contacts is designed to work worldwide numbers. For numbers stored as US numbers, it will prepend a 1 and dial 1123456789.
__d. When you select a number from Android Contacts, it receives (123) 456-7890 from Contacts, for the US it prepends a 1 for 1(123) 456-7890 and returns an error that the number is not valid
4. Like most VOIP solutions, it only has SMS, not MMS. RingCentral Supports both.
5. The combination of the poor support, poor website layout, not-well-thought-out contact access
*RingCentral has no problem here nor does Phone.com.
Summary:
- What sets CallHippo apart is the combination of call recording and local presence in multiple countries for only $6.00/mo. That make the penny a minute make sense. Phone.com can do this better if you can live with the much smaller country list they support.
- CallHippo costs $15/mo. for Silver which gives you 800 minutes of free incoming and 200 minutes of free outgoing. If you do the same for RingCentral Essentials it will cost $30/mo. but it will be unlimited free calling in both directions. If you have two people, RingCentral's price goes to $20/mo. each, making it compelling unless you need foreign or multiple lines per person. For that price CallHippo gives you automatic call recording while RingCentral will make you remember to hit the * key unless you get the more expensive packages. If you add $5/mo. to RingCentral you get fax, audio conference and video conference. CallHippo allows you to add numbers for $6.00/mo. including in foreign countries. RingCentral only works with US numbers and it would cost another full monthly service charge. Google Voice is free, but it is only a US number and you must give them a US number for confirmation. I'm not sure if you will need a confirmation number at any point in the future but I do know that if the number is no longer available, the service does not stop. Call recording for inbound calls only and does an announcement. This enables free calls to from anywhere to anywhere in the US for free, and makes you reachable from anywhere in the US. This does not enable free local calling to and from a foreign country from anywhere. The way I can see this working is if you don't care about call recording, and you got a VOIP number in the foreign country. Otherwise, when you were out of country, you would not be able to be directly contacted from that country, and you would have multiple VOIP provider apps. You hear a lot about GrassHopper. It is more feature-rich than CallHippo, but the problem is it is more of a forwarding service. That means you need to have a number to forward to that you are maintaining from another service. Thus, GrassHopper's fit is for a US-based business using other phones as extensions. It doesn't do call recording, every time you change SIMs the number you forward to would have to change, and anything foreign would be at long distance rates. It is clearly not a fit for international use. Phone.com makes a ton of sense if their limited non-US country list works for you.
- CallHippo's poor website layout, poor support, and not having something as basic as dialing from Contacts working, indicates an amateur operation. RingCentral and Phone.com excel in all of these categories and even sharing a contact list. Not being able to dial from you Contact list? People's expectations of a dialer goes beyond that. They expect to be able to paste a number in from a web page and have it dial.
- I believe CallHippo has a lot of potential but it seems like it's in the alpha stage. Will it even exist tomorrow, and what happens to your ported numbers then? The attraction is there isn't anything with this level of functionality and price for doing frequent coordination in multiple countries.
- Defining the market for this service is a bit of a challenge. As a VOIP IP PBX system, it is much more limited than most. It doesn't work with regular SIP hardware for inside of an office. If you use your cell phone as your desk phone, you still cannot share a company telephone directory, nor can you use its Contacts to dial from because their sync does not make the telephone numbers available in a format that CallHippo can use, nor is there any other way to import or export Contacts. It cannot sanitize numbers copied from web pages. Ideally, as an expatriate, you want your domestic and foreign numbers to be VOIP numbers so when you switch SIMs, nothing changes because the wireless provider does not host your number. He is simply providing Internet access for the numbers. CallHippo's main detractors are the Contact list situation, and no MMS support. So it seems like the only market fits for CallHippo are for a single expatriate, or a one-man business that needs local presence to call other businesses in foreign countries.

[APP][4.4+] Location Chat 1.2 (messenger with map and location tracking)

Hi all,
I'd like to invite you to try my app:
Another chat? Yes. No. Wait! Did you ever hang with friends in downtown and wanted to split? But hesitated - how will you find them again? Sure, you can agree to meet in an hour in certain spot. But what if you are late? Or what if they see some fun place and want you to come there? This app can help! You see yours and your friends’ locations on the map in real time. And you can text them – the map and chat share the same screen.
Do you like hiking in parks and want to share your location with relatives at home? Are you an avid fisherman and want your buddy to get to this real good spot you just found? Do you have guests coming to your cottage but don’t want to call them to check how far they are? With Location Chat you save time and have piece of mind that you are connected!
Location is updated with the frequency controlled by the app settings (10 seconds to 5 minutes). You have full control of whether you're sending your location updates. Disable it at any time or let the timer to turn it off. Your location is shared within the chat. Contacts in other chats will not see it, unless you choose to enable it there.
Share a place of interest on the map: simply add a marker with the icon of what it is, e.g. "Picnic Site" or "Cabin", and your friends will see it too. And of course all normal functions of a messaging app are included: group and individual chats with text and picture sharing, forwarding and replies.
You can use Location Chat on smart phone or tablet with a data plan. Just register an account and you are ready to go. No personal information (phone number, email, etc.) required.
Features include:
- Simple, familiar interface with chat and user lists.
- Chat screen with integrated map. Upon turning on location sharing, other chat members will see your location on the map.
- Private (one-on-one) and group chat.
- Marks that can be published on chat map and shared with chat members.
- Take and post photos, share with other chats or messaging apps.
- Chat messages can be encrypted with password.
- Read and dismiss messages inside Android notification.
- XMPP standard is used as protocol
If you have a feature request or a suggestion – feel free to share with us! The app is in active development and we would welcome any ideas!
Get it on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.p4rp.messenger

What's New
-more public servers available
-long click on map to see distance and save as mark
-forward mark to another chat
-share mark info with another app
-integration with SmartOut
-preview image before sending

[APP][5.1+] Gentlemen’s Assistant Beta 0.9 – Smart SMS, Calls and Email (with Promo Codes)

Since we are beta testing our app, and to make certain we are on the right track, for the top 50 people that provide the most valuable and MEANINGFUL FEEDBACK to the short questions at Mod Edit: Link removed, we will happily be sending free upgrade promo codes!
The app may be downloaded from Mod Edit: Link removed
Without further ado:
Gentlemen’s Assistant – Smart SMS, Calls and Email – Free Upgrade Promo Codes for the Top 50 People!
Gentlemen’s Assistant is a smart device automation tool for SMS messages, calls and email that’ll help you stay in touch with loved ones—and it’ll be there for you through life’s many distractions.
Let’s face it—girls (and some guys!) love lots of attention and most men can’t keep up. Rather than forgetting to give your better half the attention they deserve—perhaps you’re in a conference call or very busy with work—Gentlemen’s Assistant (GA) will, cleverly, send text messages of your choosing to, and smartly prompt you to call and email, your significant other to remind them that they mean a lot to you.
Some people are, very much, against automation technology like this, but we believe that anything that can help keep communication high between loved ones is, in the long run, a good thing. GA, by default, will not take any action and largely act as a helpful reminder, and we recommend this type of use.
Warning: GA works well when used sparingly with simple messages—perhaps too well. While it’ll give your significant other the attention they need, they’ll be inclined to reply back and, at this time, GA is not intelligent enough to reply in context—so you’ll need to reply back yourself.
Features
Automatically send custom SMS messages, with scheduling and opportunistic randomization
Automatically start a call, with reminders, near the end of the period selected
Automatically start a prepopulated email, with reminders, on a regular basis
Won’t automatically send a message if:
You are in a call with this person
You recently missed a call from this person (configurable)
This person recently sent a message and you didn’t reply (configurable)
Won’t automatically start a call if you:
Are in a call with this person
Were in a call with this person and didn’t end the period selected with a missed call
Modern Android design with a dark theme
Supports multiple people (when upgraded)
Won’t repeat the last message sent
Set a maximum number of messages per day, week or month
Notifications for upcoming messages (configurable)
Notifications populated with recent conversation history and favorite messages (favorites are currently available on Android 9.0 and later)
Time zone aware (it’ll do the right thing regardless of where you are)
Upcoming messages can be easily edited, disabled, postponed, skipped or quickly changed to other frequently sent messages
History of what messaging actions were taken and why
Tentatively planned features
Won’t automatically send a message if:
You recently sent one (configurable)
You’re at a loved one’s place (configurable)
Biometric authentication to open app
Display actual MMS pictures/content in notifications
Enhanced Artificial Intelligence and machine learning
Helpful Hints
GA can be used to regularly touch base with anyone you care about, not just loved ones!
Use short and sweet, but generalized, messages. Sending a simple “I love you” once a day is far better than sending “You looked amazing in that black dress!”
More varied messages tend to work best.
Disable messages when you and your significant other are together—or select Not Today when notified. While you can schedule messages outside of times you’re likely to be together, you don’t want messages to be sent when you are, for example, sitting right next to them at breakfast.
Don’t wait for GA’s automation! If you are feeling extra loving, let your loved one know in the moment!
Known issues
RCS support is incomplete. RCS messages will not be displayed properly in notifications and messages will be sent as SMS.
Email reminders are still a work-in-progress and we plan to have this completed soon.
Please give us your feedback at Mod Edit: Link removed
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