A Great New Tool to Track

In an effort to keep track of my expenses, I was using expensr.com. I liked it because it was simple, and showed me these nice pie graphs. Plus I could add as many custom categories as I wanted. But they were puchased a few months ago by moneyStrands, so my account was transferred over to them.

Except that I don’t like moneyStrands. I found the interface confusing to use, and the whole thing was unwieldy. After using it for three days, I closed my account.

Now I was stuck. I didn’t want to have to create my own spreadsheet because I’m lazy, and I haven’t found any pre-made ones out there that I liked.

TextHog to the rescue!

The big selling point of TextHog is that you can email or tweet your expenses to the site and it records everything for you. This is great because if I’m out and about and bought an ice cream from an ice cream truck, I can record the purchase. And it makes those pie charts I like too. The one thing I’d like is customizable categories, but they hit all the major ones, and let you tag each transactions as you like, so it’s definitely workable.

Have any of you used TextHog yet? I’ve been at it for a week, and absolutely love it. TextHog’s still in beta, so I’m hoping that they’ll continue to roll out the features each week and/or month.

So let’s hear it readers, have you tried TextHog yet? What do you think?