My sincere thanks to Saved for sponsoring my writing this week. It’s a simple personal finance app for your iOS 7 iPhone or iPod touch, with a clean interface.
Saved is crafted by the small passionate team at Snappymob, and is a unique take on personal finance apps. The Saved team has also started chronicling their experience of making it.
Saved is built on the belief that lots of people want and could benefit from some basic financial awareness, but don’t want to have to think about another complicated tool. Saved is built for the 80%. We believe the biggest bottleneck in personal finance apps are the overwhelming number of concepts and configuration choices you often face when starting out. But once you get into the habit of using a tool like Saved, it becomes second nature and rewards you with useful data. With that in mind, we’ve designed an product that eschews many of the complexities found in other apps such as account setup, syncing with financial institutions, and complicated budget setups.
Saved is meant as an unreasonably effective app you can understand and use immediately. Our goal is that within a week, the app would have paid for itself (+ a cup of coffee) by revealing details about your spending patterns that you would otherwise be oblivious to. Even if you’re fortunate enough not to need a personal budget, having some quantitative visual data about your spending habits is pretty awesome too if you ask us.
There are many features Saved deliberately omits – at Snappymob we embrace a philosophy of simplicity. We have a healthy disdain for features that overwhelm the user and we won’t add a feature unless we can get it right from a user experience perspective.
That certainly doesn’t mean we are satisfied. As it stands, Saved is far from our eventual vision for it. Still, nothing makes us and our users happier than delivering an update that delivers just what they were waiting for which is why we’re working on version 2 of Saved as we speak. We are improving some big things and some little things which have been driven largely by listening to user feedback. Look for it in July. Finally, thanks to those reading this who are already Saved users. You are awesome!
Saved is available for iPhones and iPods running iOS 7+ and is available for $2.99 during the mattgemmell.com sponsorship period. Download it from the App Store.
If you’re interested in sponsoring my writing for a week, and reaching my audience of tech-savvy, curious, creative thinkers, you can find more information here.