I'm very disappointed with Mobile Checkbook. I have tried several apps for keeping a little ledger of my daily expenses -- Mobile Checkbook, Light Wallet, the Wallet app from BB App Store, etc. -- but only one does the obvious simple things. I need the app to do this:
1. Allow me to input transactions quickly and easily in a familiar manner that doesn't re-invent standard accounting procedures.
2. Allow me to export these transactions into a QIF file in a manner that WORKS RELIAIBLY, so that I can then draw on those exports for my "main' accounting document on the laptop.
3. Allow me multiple currency functions (so I can keep accurate record of expenses in Euros, expenses in Dollars).
4. Allow transfers between accounts (so, when I withdraw from the ATM, my bank account balance diminishes and my cash wallet balance increases).
I have only found one application that actually does all of this, though it's not ideal. I am not really HAPPY with the app, I'm just STUCK with it as the only option thus far. It's really really klunky:
JABP Lite
It is a java-based program and it has a desktop/laptop version as well as a smartphone version. You can coordinate the two if you'd like, essentially running a little user-managed synchronization, but since I'm familiar with Quicken and MS Money I'm unlikely to change my desktop/laptop procedures just to accommodate the smartphone app.
Some day there will be a sensible way to coordinate my Quicken files from laptop to smartphone, so that when I'm out "in the field" I can enter a few transactions and then later just synch them to my main Quicken accounts doc in some manner other than the current necessity, which is to export the smartphone transactionos into a QIF and then use the laptop to import the QIF. That's like sending yourself an email with notes in it ... or just writing it down with a pen and paper. I mean, I COULD just write it down, it's not like I don't know how, but then, why have technology?