Neptuo Money

In a consumer-based society, where advertisements can be found everywhere, eager to convince people to buy products they may not even require, tracking your expenses could be a great opportunity to resist the urges of impulse spending. One way of doing that is through Neptuo Money, an expenses manager that follows Microsoft’s modern design language for a pleasant user experience.

When launching the app, the user is greeted by a simple two-pane layout displaying the monthly spending summaries, categories of expenses and currencies on the left side for an easy navigation. In order to get a better idea of how much you spent in the course of the year, the right side features a bar graph coupled with a pie chart for visualizing how costly the various aspects of your life truly are.

Each month’s payments are laid out in tabs for quickly comparing the rise of the costs of living or the lifestyle changes that may have taken place. Expenses can be sorted by category alphabetically or by amount, in order to instantly find out where moderation needs to be exercised.

When adding costs, multiple pop up windows appear for the user to insert the amount, category, description and day in which the spending occurred. By default, the statistics are grouped in categories, and clicking on each one reveals the individual elements that the user spent money on.

Heading over to their dedicated menu, the user can find options to generate any kind of category they wish, with the app molding itself according to one’s hobbies, lifestyle and habits. When creating a new entry in this menu, its title, description, color and icon can be customized for adding visual cues when visualizing the expenses.

The app can be used in all parts of the globe thanks to its support for various currencies and exchange rates, which can be useful when traveling or when tracking long term changes to the value of the local currency. Categories and their subsequent costs can be fully edited after insertion, in case of user errors. For archiving purposes or mobile setups, data can be exported and imported easily within the Settings tab.

Finally, the app could use an extra feature in the form of a monthly budget option to have a clear overview of how much one is supposed to spend, along with the implementation of a notification in the bar graph view for times when spending goes over the budget.

For those looking for a clean and modernly designed application that makes managing expenses a breeze, look no further than Neptuo Money, an open-source, easy-to-use utility that could make some users rethink their spending habits.