Category: Announcements

Live tiles in Toshl for Windows Phone: Sum Up Your Finances From the Home Screen

We’ve have a new update of Toshl Finance for Windows Phone for you with new goodies that we’re sure you will love. To get all the new goodies, you will have to re-download the Toshl Finance app from the Marketplace.

Live tiles

The most important thing we’ve added in this new release are live tiles. You can pin them on your home screen and they’ll let you know how your finances are standing with a simple glance of your phone.

Sum up
See your current balance and how it’s been changing in the last week.

Budget
Pin any of the budgets you have made as a live tile on the home screen. You’ll always know how much you have left to spend on those coffees and snacks this month.

Add expense
Pin the add expense button and make expense entry extra quick. Tap the live tile, amount, tag, save aaaand you’re done. Adding expenses has never been quicker.
How to get the new version:
1. Make sure all your expenses are synced to toshl.com
2. Uninstall Toshl Finance
3. Go to the Windows Phone Marketplace and install Toshl Finance
4. Log in, your expenses will be automatically synced


Why?
We’ve been changing our publishing accounts on the Windows Phone Marketplace so we can finally have control over publishing. Sadly it’s not possible to move an existing app to a new account, so we had to remove it first and create a new one. A side effect is that the Toshl app you downloaded before will not update automatically. All updates after this one will be available automatically. We’re very sorry for the inconvenience, we wouldn’t have done this if it wasn’t absolutely necessary.

Thank you for your patience and we hope you’ll enjoy the new live tiles!

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Toshl Finance Joins 500 Startups

The Toshl team has been very busy lately, lifting our anchors and setting off for San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, while a few members stayed in Slovenia to guard the fort. We didn’t move just to collect some airline miles. Toshl has been joined the 500 Startups family.

500 Startups is a startup accelerator that brings together learning from the best people in the industry, an awesome co-working office space in the 12th floor heights of Mountain View, an investment, large discounts for startup services and most importantly the access to a network of top professionals and investors from the tech industry.

Another cool thing is we get to hang out, work and party with 25 other startups in this batch of the program. With so many great people around it’s easy to learn from one another and have a great time. Check out all the great teams from our batch.

We recorded a video of the current 500 Startups batch teams, because it’s fun acting silly for a change and because we’re shameless whores for press. The video is called The Funding Games, a parody on The Hunger Games movie with some geeky startup funding humour sprinkled all over. See it below. Right now! :)

How did we get into 500 Startups?
There is no official sign up process with an online application or anything like that, so the only way in is by getting referred to the 500 Startups team by someone in their network. We were fortunate to meet some really nice investors which referred us to Dave McClure and Christine Tsai, as well as startup founders which helped with our application.

What’s next?
We’re working in Mountain View and San Francisco until the end of July, innovating the hell out of Toshl. Demo day will also be coming up very soon. We’ve got some really nice things in our plans, think automatic tracking and bank data, but more on that once they’re ready to launch.

Press
There’s a few news sites with a bit to say about Toshl and the current 500 Startups batch, check it out below.

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What we’ve been up to, WP7 heatmap and some upcoming fixes

So, what have we been up to lately? As you know we’ve recently launched Toshl 1.7 with a bunch of new features for the Web, iPhone and Windows Phone. We’re now working hard to bring you all of those goodies to Nokia platforms and Android as well.

On Android, we first need to take care of some old debts as well. Repeating expenses have been malfunctioning for some users and could even produce huge faux sums. We’re testing a release which will fix all that for Toshl 1.6 for Android and hopefully keep those issues resolved going forward.

If you’ve been suffering from those problems or would like to try the fixed version, please help us test it. Download Toshl for Android 1.6.8.
If you’ve been having problems with repeats, please delete the old repeats and set up new ones. It should be smooth sailing from then onward.
If you encounter any problems, please tell us about them, write to: info [at] toshl.com
Right after the fix is completed we’ll refocus our efforts on 1.7 with incomes for Android.

Toshl 1.7 for Symbian^3 is also nearing completion. We’re doing some internal testing at the moment, but we will start with public beta testing soon. Write us at info [at] toshl.com if you would like to participate.

We’ve also moved with most of the Toshl team to San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, where we’ll be creating during the summer. Great times and opportunities ahead, more on that a bit later.

For the end of this post, a little more eye-candy we’ve been playing around with. Heatmap of added expenses based on just the Windows Phone Toshl GPS geolocation data.
Toshl Finance Windows Phone users around the worldSee it in full size

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Toshl Advances to 1.7! Incomes, Sum Up, Monsters!

Making your finances easier to handle is what we love to do and today that got a lot easier. We’ve just released brand new versions of Toshl Finance on the Web, iPhone and Windows Phone. Toshl monsters are shy no more and they’ve brought tons of new features with them.

Toshl Finance has Incomes!

Incomes

Finally! We’ve all been wanting this natural part of keeping personal finances for a long while and they’re finally here. They work just like budgets enter the number, tap the tag. done! Multiple and repeating monthly incomes are only available to those with Toshl Pro, though. The Toshl monsters have to eat something…

Add and edit for free on toshl.com

It used to be available only to Toshl Pro users but now it’s free for all! Manage your finances on the phone while you’re out, do it with the comfort of a big screen and keyboard when you’re home.

Sum up

Wouldn’t it be great if you could just glance over your current financial state on one screen? That’s exactly what Sum up is for, plus there’s a cute monster to help you explain it all.

Planned

Expenses coming up in the future get a special treatment now and help you think ahead. All the repeating expenses are better marked too, so you’ll never be confused when they’ll be coming up.

Rollover budgets

You want to rollover the remaining budget funds into the next month? Budgets for all tags except the ones you don’t want? Your wish is our command.

My financial month & custom timespans

When you get your paycheck is when your financial month starts. You tell us when that is and we’ll adjust accordingly. If you want to see any date range in particular, no problem, set up a custom time span.

Toshl Pro

Get the best out of Toshl with multiple budgets, automatically repeating incomes, search on the web, more formats to export… Check out all the benefits! Plus you support the Toshl team so we can work on more stuff to make your life easier. Now it’s possible to pay directly with a credit card, with an in-app purchase on iOS as well as PayPal. Sign up for the 3 year plan and we’ll send you an awesome T-shirt too!

What about Android, Symbian^3, MeeGo?

Don’t worry, we’re hard at work updating the apps for all those platforms too. It will take us a bit longer, but we really want them to be properly done once you get them in your hands. Soon!

We love to hear from you

Do you have some comments about Toshl, ideas for improvements, bugs to report? Please let us know. We’re always trying to make Toshl work for you the best we can.

Warning from the Toshl Sarcasm Department: DO NOT download the Toshl Finance app, DO NOT log in to toshl.com and whatever you don’t do, keep all of this a SECRET. ;)

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Toshl in Start-up Now guide

We had an awesome ride at Seedcamp New York, summer 2011. Learned a lot, met awesome individuals and teams, worked a lot as well. And a small chunk of what we learned has just been published in Start-up Now guide.

Seedcamp is an early stage startup program with long history of activity and success. Basically they are there to help great teams with awesome ideas to get even greater and better at what they do.
And since they are good guys (and gals, of course), they share this profound experience and knowledge everywhere they go, using all means possible. As a result of that, they just published a quick overview of shared experiences across many applicants of Seedcamp, including Toshl, in a slideshare eBook.

A must read for all future-to-be seedcamp companies and startups in general.
Go get it now!

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