We aim to make the Toshl Finance apps, as well as easily managing your personal finances in general, accessible to everyone. A large part of that effort is also making sure that Toshl is translated well into the languages of Toshl users worldwide.

 

Today, we’re happy to announce that all Toshl Finance apps are now available in the Italian language.

 

If the system language on your Android or iOS mobile device is set to Italian already, the Toshl Finance app will switch automatically the next time you open it. If you’re not using Italian yet, change the general system language setting and Toshl will adapt as well.

 

In the Toshl Finance web app on toshl.com, we automatically set the language for people just signing up based on location. If you already have an account, you can also change the language in the General Settings of the web app.

 

We now support 10 languages on all platforms with Toshl 2.0 apps. Italian thus joins English, Slovenian, Chinese – simplified, Chinese – traditional, French, German, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Spanish in our rooster of languages.

 

Translations can be a tricky business sometimes and there’s always room for improvement both in accuracy and the tone of the language. If you’re a native Italian speaker and see a translation that could be improved upon, please send us a suggestion to support@toshl.com so we can check and hopefully make the Italian translation even better in the future.

 

Viva l’Italia!

The 2.0.5 version number might not look like a big leap, since we still consider these updates to be part of the core 2.0 functionality, but this Android update packs some seriously big improvements and important new features.

 

Expense and income graphs

Two important new graphs, both for expenses and incomes. One is the “donut graph”, displaying categories and their proportions relative to your entire spending. You can also tap on the parts of the graph to see sums for individual categories or a few of them together.

 

Below the donut category graph, is the bubble tag graph that displays the sums of the tags and their relative proportions in your spending. You can tap on an individual bubble to get more details about the tag, such as the percentage of total spending, average spending per day in the time span etc. As with categories, you can select multiple ones to get a sum of them together.

As everywhere in the app, you can filter the sums in these graphs by time span or financial account.

In times of extreme financial distress, feel free to grab a tag bubble and toss it around a bit to relieve yourself of stress, at least a little bit. Especially the big bubbles. May they pop soon!

We’ve prepared a tutorial to get to know and use these graphs better: Expense and Income Graphs (Android)

 

Sums by tags in the expense list

This has been a highly sought after feature and for good reason. When looking at the expense or income list, you can now see the tag sums in addition to the category sums.

Just switch the expense list to “by category” by swiping to the right, then tap on a category. All the tags used on expenses together with the category will open up and you can see their sums on the right.

Tap a tag row and you’ll see the individual expenses nested inside it.

 

New widgets

Many, many fun widgets. With monsters.

With the 2.0 version we added a more minimalistic Android home screen widget for adding expenses incomes and transfers between accounts. Just a + in a round circle. The monsters would have none of it.

They loved parading around on your Android home screen and no circular lesser monstrosity would take that away form them. So the monsters are back. Back in force.

You can now choose between 10 different widget variations. 9 monsters and the 1 regular + button in red, green or grey.

Any monster can be configured to open the adding of an expense, income or a transfer between financial accounts, right from your home screen.

There are two sizes available for the widget, 1×1 for the smaller, space conscious monsters and the 2×2 for those who want to enjoy them in all their glory.

We have also added support for many of the Android OS variations where shortcut widgets weren’t supported, so the widgets will now show up on all Android devices.

 

Italian language

We’ve translated the entire app to Italian. That makes for 10 languages we currently fully support on Toshl.

It’s a new translation though, so if you notice any phrases that could be better put, please drop us a line at support@toshl.com so we can fix them. Viva l’Italia!

 

Bug fixes & minor improvements

• transfers between financial accounts are now displayed with their own icon in the “by category” list
• Monthly overview and budget graphs won’t interfere with scrolling anymore and the tap & hold lollipop comes up with a slight delay to make scrolling smoother
• a problem with calculating “remaining categories” in monthly budgets was solved
• budget graphs got lots of improvements and fixes for better precision
• much faster expense list and improved loading of long lists
• + button on Monthly overview which was missing before
• the River flow graph now displays the Saved portion correctly when used with custom time spans
• budgets are no longer filtered by accounts, it caused too much confusion, all are now always displayed as in other Toshl apps
• a bunch of errors and crashes fixed

 

Download the latest Toshl Finance app for Android on Google Play

Import financial data into Toshl

We have recently added a much requested feature to the Toshl web app. You can now import your data to Toshl from your CSV, QFX, OFX and QIF files.

This means you can now import financial data you have in other apps, or data that your online bank provides.

The importing process is pretty straightforward: open toshl.com in your web browser and click the Import data link in the main menu on the left.

Then you can simply drag and drop your CSV, QFX, OFX or QIF files and confirm to import them. The latter three formats will import instantly, since these formats are already well structured for financial information.

CSV (comma separated values) files require an extra step, since the format is more general and the data can be structured in any number of ways.

Worry not, we’ve simplified CSV importing as much as possible. You’ll be shown a preview of the data from your file and you can then choose which fields from the CSV files match which type of data in Toshl. For example, select which field is a date, an expense description or an amount. Once you’ve selected those from the dropdown, you’re all set and can continue with the import.

It’s wise to create a new financial account for the imported data, so it doesn’t mix up with the rest of the data and you can easily turn it OFF or ON in the accounts sidebar.

The import feature is available for both free and Toshl Pro users.

 

Updated Toshl Pro plans

We have also made some changes to features included in free and Toshl Pro plans. We needed to find a better balance to be able to continue to develop and improve the Toshl Finance apps. Features that have been moved to the Toshl Pro plan are adding of automatically repeating entries, reminders, exporting in formats other than CSV (which remains free) and locking the app with passcode/fingerprint in the mobile apps.

The price of the monthly subscription has increased to $2.99 per month, but the yearly plan will remain priced at $19.99.

While we realise that this might come as an unfortunate surprise for some of you, we hope you can understand that developing and maintaining apps such as Toshl takes significant resources and a good balance needs to be struck so we can continue to offer you these services long into the future. We can only hope that you understand the reasoning behind our decision and continue supporting the development of Toshl. To infinity and beyond!

 

Updated Android app (2.0.4)

The Android app received an important update recently. The search functionality has been added, so you can now search for practically any info you would find on an expense, income or transfer.

To improve ergonomics and ease of use, we’ve also added another large Save button to the bottom of all the Add entry screens. It should make things a lot easier, especially for those of you with larger screens, no need to stretch those thumbs anymore!

There are tons of other improvements and fixes, too numerous too list all here. For example, tag selection is no longer cut off on some smaller devices, pull down list to refresh now fetches more data, users in Hong Kong now get the traditional Chinese localisation by default, the expense lists now load much faster…

 

Download the updated app on Google Play

Today is the day! We have released Toshl Finance 2.0 for Android phones. It’s a huge update. The new app brings many new features and improvements. In fact, we’ve redesigned and rebuilt it from the ground up.

The first thing you’ll notice is the new visual style. While keeping with the Toshl aesthetic, it also blends much better with the newer Android OS style updates and feels like a genuine member of the Android ecosystem.

Among the features we’ve added are multiple financial accounts, adding of photos, locations, reminders, paid markers to expenses and incomes. We’re proud of our new data visualisations on Monthly overview, River flow, Budgets, Locations to name just a few. Budgets can now adjust automatically to your monthly incomes, the time periods for budgets can be completely customised and they play much nicer with other graphs.

 

You can add transfers between financial accounts, use a calculator for tips when adding an expense, sync works much better and faster… All the new improvements are truly too many to list, so better than reading this list, go and download the new Android app on Google Play.We have also introduced a much better structured system for categories, tags and accounts. We now suggest most of the categories and tags you’d ever need so you don’t have think up your own system if you don’t want to. But all of these are still fully customisable, if that’s what rocks your boat.

If you haven’t yet migrated your tags to the new system of categories and tags you can do so now. The migration wizard will start automatically when you open the mobile app after it has been updated to the new version. Keep in mind that you can also continue this migration or edit your categories at any time on the web app on toshl.com in Expenses / Edit categories and tags. A few more options are available when editing on the web app.

With all the new features and improvements, it can take a little while to get used to everything and discover all the nifty new details. To help you with your exploration, we have prepared a whole set of tutorials to guide you.

 

Mobile app tutorials

 

Web app tutorials

 

Top 3 to get started

How to Set Up Your Finances

How to Set Up Your Budgets and Control Your Spending

Left to Spend – The Gist of Your Finances in 1 Number

*While the screenshots in the tutorials currently feature the iOS app, the functions work just the same and the interface is very similar. We’ll be adding many new tutorials with Android screenshots in the coming months as well.

 

In case some questions still go unanswered in the tutorials, please contact us at support@toshl.com and we’ll be happy to help.

A big THANK YOU to everyone in the Toshl Beta community  who helped us Beta test the app in these final stages!

With the new 2.0 app we now have a new foundation to build on and will be able to add new features and improvements to the app more frequently than in the past. We have much in our plans and we’re already looking forward to the next steps on our Android roadmap.