Cromberg

All financing experts recommend keeping track of your budget in one way or another. By knowing the exact amount of spent and received money, you can figure out ways to reduce spending or even find new income sources.

If you're looking for a simple application to do this job, you can try your luck with Cromberg. It's easy to use and has no complex features like other applications.

Although you immediately reach the main window after double-clicking the .exe file, you should know that the tool is not portable because it creates files in the User\AppData and Windows\Prefetch directories. Your settings are remembered on exit.

It has a plain appearance and well-structured layout, where you can toggle the income, balance and settings by clicking buttons on the upper-right corner.

The income tracker is initially empty, and you can get started by adding entries for each time you received money. Information about it includes the date of transaction, month and year, sum, type (if you want to use categories, for example), person to contact (name or email address), as well as description.

It's possible to add as many entries as you want. Data is automatically processed by Cromberg, which shows your monthly and yearly income, average income by year, along with statistics (sum, average, best and worst month).

In the balance section, you can enter a place for storing your budget and add balance entries by month. Graphs can be inspected for both your income and balance. As far as settings are concerned, you can ask the tool to remind you each month of your balance and write your email address to send reminders automatically. Also, you can change the default database folder, backup folder, and interface language.

Although Cromberg is a bit rough around the edge and its interface needs more work as far as appearance goes, it has a good idea behind it, putting emphasis on simplicity when it comes to budget tracking.