Today, we’ve added a few new crypto currencies in Toshl with fresh exchange rates provided by Coinbase.
This brings the total to 289 currencies supported in Toshl. 170 fiat currencies, 103 crypto, 4 commodities (e.g. gold) and 12 deprecated currencies. Deprecated currencies are no longer in active use, but historical exchange rates are kept for archival reasons. Ever heard of the Slovenian tolar?
We try to track customer demand for new bank connections which we don’t yet cover. With about 15 000 connections to banks and other financial institutions around the world, we connect to quite a few. That being said, with all the financial services globally, we cannot connect to every single one instantly.
When we sum up all the requests for new connections to particular banks, a clear winner shows up – Monobank Ukraine. As we get a not-so-preverted sense of pleasure from fulfilling our customer’s wishes and requests, we’re quite giddy to announce that connecting to Monobank is finally available to everyone in Toshl Finance.
Instructions to connect:
Mobile app (Android, iOS)
Step 5 is the crucial one, it’s the only thing you’ll really have to do manually other than tapping next/confirm, or similar.
Web app (toshl.com)
It sounds longer than it really is, the whole thing shouldn’t take more than a minute. The transactions coming in should also be categorised, provided that there was enough information in the transaction description. Also keep in mind that the transaction categorisation automatically learns from your corrections and transfers between accounts will also be detected.
You’re saving an expense. You got the amount and category noted in two taps, just tap Save and you’re done. But the receipt is right in front of you and there’s so much more information there; exact items purchased, company, time, location, salesperson etc. You know that you can take and save a photo of the receipt, but then the content wouldn’t be searchable…
There’s a better way. With iOS 15, you can tap into a text field use the camera to instantly scan text and insert it into the field, right from the app. Best you see how this works for yourself in the videos below.
This way, you can add lots of extra info to your expenses, incomes and transfers in a second or two. The text remains searchable and if you want the full photo, you could also save it in the photos tab.
While this excitement comes hot on the heels of the iOS 15 release, Android users, fret not. A similar feature has been available for a while on Android devices, albeit through the Google Lens / Camera app.
To use it, tap the Google Lens button on the top right corner of the camera app. Select the text you need in the camera app and copy it. You can then paste this text when adding the expense in Toshl.
It’s one thing to say; “My budget and I, we go waaay back”, but how much do you really know about your budget’s past? I’m not talking about that one time they experimented with tags and financial account filtering back in college. I mean the real nitty gritty stuff, the budget’s historical performance.
We’re all a bit optimistic when we first set up the budgets. Yet the real trial of your budgeting resolve, comes when you see the results of past budget periods and decide what you’ll do about them. Sometimes your spending or the budgets just need a little re-adjustment, sometimes a whole new strategy is needed.
We’re introducing a much improved budget history graph to help you with that.
There’s been a budget history graph in Toshl for a while. You could just open any budget’s details and scroll all the way down. The budget history is still there, but the new graph tells you a lot more.
Before, you’d see how much you spent in total in any given month.
Now, you’ll see:
You’ll notice that monthly budgets feature a bit more info still:
The budget details are already featured above the history. So the graph doesn’t show exact numbers by default, but you can easily dig into more detail. As with other graphs in Toshl, click and hold on the graph column to show the details for each column.
As with this yearly budget history, you can see exactly how much was spent in a particular period and how that compares with your budgeting goals.
Toshl adapts the graph scale based on the results, so you can see the differences in your budget’s performance between periods. Making those differences clearly visible, also means sometimes cutting off some outliers – columns with spending so far out of proportion with the rest of the periods, that they go over the graph’s scale. In those cases, you’ll see that as a dark red column being cut-off, to signify it goes over the graph’s scale.
See that dark red column above, going out? In the immortal words of Flight of the Conchords channelling Bowie; How far out are you man? I’m pretty far out man! Worry not, click on it and you’ll know exactly how far out that budget overspending really is. Though, I hope your bank account can handle what the graph’s scale can’t.
We’ve been gradually releasing this feature across the Toshl apps on the web, Android and iOS, so you might have already seen this in action. If not, make sure you’re updated to the latest app version, tap a budget and take a trip down the memory lane of your finances.
If you have an Android device which does not support Google Play services, cannot access Google Play in your country or would simply like to download the Toshl app directly, you can get it here. The app is available for download as an APK file, just open it on your phone and install. You might need to confirm that you allow the installation of this app from an outside source.
Most of the app is the same as the version available through Google Play. However, some features which rely on Google Play services are excluded;
Popular devices without Play services
Countries where Google Play cannot be accessed
We’ve also added a more permanent page where you can always download the latest Toshl Android app APK without Play services. The linked APK file is updated with each new release that goes on Google Play, but with Play services excluded.
