BudgetCalculator

Keeping track of your finances and ensuring that your income/expenditure balance stays the way you like it, will require an attentive approach towards spending and the overall financial aspects of your earnings. Aside from relying on traditional, pen-and-paper, or Excel methods, users can also rely on dedicated software, such as BudgetCalculator. This application was designed in order to provide users with the means to add, edit and monitor their income and expenditure items, and quickly calculate the available balance.

The application features a truly simple design, which keeps a clean interface, and lacks any clutter. All elements are legible and readily available, and keeping visual track of the added elements is effortless.

However, where BudgetCalculator makes for through simplicity, might lack in efficiency, as we found the item and label input features to be quite cumbersome to use. Especially since their functionality could have been incorporated in the context menu of the main list view.

Having added all the required elements, both for earnings and expenses, one can then proceed to calculate the financial balance, and this is provided instantaneously. However, no clipboard implementation is offered, meaning that users will have to manually copy the resulting figures.

After defining an income/expenditure list set, one might prefer to save it for later use. But this is not possible, as the application lacks any exporting features, which we feel could have been quite beneficial to have around.

All-in-all, BudgetCalculator can prove to be a good asset to possess when wanting to be able to quickly calculate your financial balance with regard to income and expenditures. However, its functionality could be further aided by extra features, which are lacking in this current iteration.