Deep inside the secret development facilities of Toshl an app has been brewing for quite some time. Our developers toiled away on the solutions, making the app super friendly for its future users, squashing bugs in the process and replying to e-mails from PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) that the bugs we are squashing are of the software variety and that no animals are being harmed in the process.

In fact animals had the least to be concerned about, for the app was not meant for them, but for robots. Androids to be exact.

All the thousands of hamsters that you had hired to organize your finances can now enjoy their well earned rest with peace of mind, for the new Toshl Finance 1.6 for Android is finally available!

Toshl liberates you and your hamsters from doing your finances by hand, making it super easy and fun to track your spending and control it with budgets.

With version 1.6 we went all out and rewritten the app from the ground up, which is also why it took a bit longer than usual.

What’s new in Toshl Finance 1.6 for Android?

All new design, now featuring Toshl monsters
The color scheme is new and in sync with the whole Toshl ecosystem. The Toshl monsters bring some fun spirit and the app is gentler on the fingers and the eyes in general.

Budgets
It’s easy to get carried away on spending, so it’s good to have a buddy tapping you on the shoulder when you’re going overboard. Toshl can do just that, set up a monthly budget for spending and get reminded to stay in budget. If you go Pro, you can even set up budgets for specific tags and weekly and daily timespans, so all that alcohol spending doesn’t go unnoticed. :)

Foreign currencies
When you go traveling it’s not easy to keep track of all your spending in another currency. Toshl makes it easy. While adding an expense, simply choose another currency to enter the expense. Toshl will already know the correct exchange rate for the day, but you can change it to your own if you wish. You can then add expenses in the local currency. Toshl will remember the expense and calculate it to your main currency as well. When you come home, all your expenses will be noted, gathered & converted to your home currency without the hassle.

Recurring expenses
We all have those pesky monthly bills to think of; rent, gym, electricity, internet. Some of them just keep coming up week after, week, month after month. Now you can add them to Toshl right from you phone and they will automatically get added each week, month or year so you can put your mind at ease in advance.

Passcode locking
Now you can keep the prying eyes away from your finances. You can set up a 4-digit code to lock the Toshl app so only you have access to it. Simply set it up in the settings and Toshl will demand the code each time you open the app.

Export from the mobile app
Toshl keeps the data you collect handy and available in a plethora of formats. You could always export your expenses into CSV files – with the free account – and to PDF, Excel and Google Docs with Toshl Pro. Now you can export those expenses right from the Toshl mobile app. Just tap the formats you’d like and Toshl will send an e-mail with the linked exported attachments right away.

Still not convinced?
Get Toshl Finance on the Android Market right now!

If you like it, please rate it on the Market and write a comment. We appreciate it a lot!

Thank you beta testers!
We would also like to thank everyone that helped with the beta testing of the Toshl app. Your feedback helped us find and eliminate many bugs (again, PETA, not what you think) and enhance the little details that make Toshl so much nicer to use.

Existing Toshl Android users
Everyone who has been using the previous Toshl app for Android, we recommend that you sync to toshl.com for backup before upgrading. Your data in the old app will of course be migrated to the new version, but with so many differences in the app it’s possible that something might go wrong and it’s best to be on the safe side. If you encounter any problems you can then just do a clean install of Toshl and sync your data from the toshl.com.

Wind in our sails, seas of plenty ahead
We’re already working on developing the next Toshl Finance for Android with lots of new functionality. Now that we’ve got this new foundation to build on we can focus on getting our loyal users more new functionality while keeping the app simple. No resting on laurels, full speed ahead!

So, how do you like the new Toshl for Android? We love to hear your feedback, let us know!

The stage is set. The murmurs of an awaiting audience fill the ether. They know something is about to unveil itself, yet are unsure of what. Ever so infrequently they refresh their gaze of the stage with a stoic anticipation.

This stage is no ordinary stage. This audience is no ordinary audience. The stage faces no particular direction, it’s turned towards anyone who wishes to partake in it’s wonders. The audience floats around in perpetuity glancing now here, then there, looking for a stage of interest to focus their attention on.

Then it begins. The red velvet drapes slowly and smoothly slide away as if they were never there. In fact they never were. The smoke now filling the stage gets slightly confused by the sudden non-existence of the red velvet drapes behind of which it was supposed to emerge. To add insult to injury, the smoke realises it has sprained forth on a stage in the metaphoric cloud, making the point of smoke rather moot.

The star of the show appears, seemingly unfazed by this whole existentialist commotion. The enclouded audience gasps with bewilderment. Is it late? Is it part two? For the year is 2011, yet this black monolith appearing on stage looks exactly the same, but not quite, like the monolith of Space Odyssey 2001. It earns the “but not quite” distinction with it’s slender, curvy figure, perhaps reminiscing of the Kubrick’s monolith’s younger, more attractive days.

As if this wasn’t enough for an audience to take in and decipher in a day, the front of the monolith lights up with the power of an exploding supernova. The beam of light acquiesces to a bit of moderation, letting the title in the monolith’s center shine through. Nokia. The people of the cloud now watch with bemusement. They recognise the name of the dynasty, the monolith seems clearer now. But what is the purpose of all this?

Then another flood of light fills stage. This time the aim is clear. There is no more confusion, no more bewilderment as to the purpose of this thing. A wonderful sense of clarity about the present and the future fills the audience. They can feel their financial worries disappear, accounts getting sorted, budgets met and they can finally relax with a feeling of security and financial freedom.

The monolith shines brigthly: Toshl for Nokia N9

So, humanity, you’re welcome. ;) This heavenly duo of Toshl and Nokia N9 is so powerful, exclusive and unique that we have decided to limit its use to no more than 92 000 Nokia N9 devices. After a deep and thoughtful consultation with Stephen Elop we feel that is the only way we can prevent the breaking of space/time continuum. So happy users of the one and only MeeGo Nokia to reach the safe harbours of people’s pockets: download away. If you don’t download Toshl right now, we cant guarantee the safety of the space/time continuum later on.

Screenshots of the financial saviour’s goodness:

But here’s how the screenshots look in the Nokia Store. They seem to have a fetish for landscape screenshots, even-though N9 is mostly portrait oriented. The publishing process could be a bit more polished, like the surface of the N9 for example…

Written by Matic Bitenc

We have just released Toshl for Nokia E6. It follows the release of Toshl for other Symbian^3 phones a less than a month ago. We have adapted Toshl especially for E6, so it now looks great on the high-resolution widescreen display of the Nokia E6. The controls were another area of special attention as Toshl is now comfortable both with touch and keyboard controls.

Naturally it has all the cool features of the Toshl ecosystem like budgets, repeating expenses, export into a plethora of formats and sync to the web so you can organise your financial life from the comfort of a web browser set on toshl.com.

So all you Nokia E6 owners out there, give Toshl a spin and tell us how it feels.
Get Toshl for Nokia E6!

From the depths of Toshl development facilities, here comes a video of Toshl running on an upcoming Nokia N9 smartphone running the MeeGo operating system. It’s such a top secret and bleeding edge technology that our hands couldn’t help but shake when recording. ;) Porting from Symbian is going surprisingly fast. Thanks to QT only a few graphics glitches needed to be taken care of.