Checkbook HD app review: monitor your incoming and outgoing payments

Checkbook HD Free - Personal Finance by iBear LLC enables you to keep track of every aspect of your finances by monitoring your checking and savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and even the content of your wallet. It was updated June 22, 2013.

Introduction

Checkbook HD Free - Personal Finance by iBear LLC enables you to keep track of every aspect of your finances by monitoring your checking and savings accounts, credit cards, loans, and even the content of your wallet. It was updated June 22, 2013.

User Experience

With this app, it really couldn’t be any easier to watch your finances. Checkbook HD Free is so easy to use, and you can also pin-protect all of your information to ensure the utmost security for your financial details.

Features

This app features extensive accounts management tools to help you monitor the balances of your various bank accounts, credit cards, and other finances. You can track your finances in multiple currencies, see the difference between your balances and cleared balances, and even split everything up into handy categories and subcategories. Recurring transactions can be set and scheduled payments will be marked as either cleared or not cleared, plus you can fully customize the frequency of all of your payments.

Equally useful is the way that you can view all of your financial data in graphical format in the form of various graphs and charts which can also be split into categories and subcategories. This makes it incredibly easy to accurately keep track of your income along with all of your outgoings.

In-App Purchases

For $2.99 you can unlock a feature allowing you to use unlimited transactions. This feature is available via in-app purchase.

Update Info

Checkbook HD Free - Personal Finance is currently running on Version 4.1.3. The latest update included various bug fixes, including issues with iCloud, backup, crashing, and other minor problems.

Customer Ratings and Feedback Comments

Checkbook HD Free - Personal Finance currently has 7 customer ratings with an average rating of 2.5 out of five stars.

Customer feedback has generally been quite positive, although some people are reporting that crashing has become more frequent since the latest update was implemented. Another user remarked that syncing is very temperamental, with the app synching everything even if you only submit one or two entries.

Personal Comments by Reviewer

The latest update seems to have riled a few users of this app, but overall I’m very impressed. Checkbook HD Free has a great user interface with a visual theme that vaguely reminds me of the classic board game, Trivial Pursuit, but there’s certainly nothing trivial about this app.

 If you’re looking for a way to monitor all of your payments, both incoming and outgoing, and want to be able to track your entire financial prospectus with one single tool, then you absolutely must try out Checkbook HD Free.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Easily monitor every aspect of your finances, including bank accounts, mortgage payments, and credit cards
• View financial information on graphs and charts
• Pin-protect your details for privacy and security

Cons

• Possible issues with syncing content
• Possible issues with crashing
   

For: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later. Checkbook HD Free is optimized for iPhone 5.