Do you want to get your finances back in order, but the simple idea of doing your accounts or following a budget makes you break out in a cold sweat? This free, easy-to-use software could be the solution.
The holidays are over, you have just returned to the office or started the start of the university year, and you have made a big decision: this year, you will seriously stick to your budget. A beautiful resolution, which will undoubtedly bring you serenity on a daily basis and will allow you to effectively prepare for your future. Finally, if you hold it for more than a few weeks.
Because managing your personal finances with rigor is not a fun activity for anyone, apart from a few accountants suffering from severe professional deformation. Establishing a forecast budget, methodically recording each expense and each income, anticipating monthly deductions or annual regularizations, and taking stock of them each month can quickly become a purge.
Fortunately, there are computer tools that can greatly facilitate this work and help you keep your accounts accurately, all (almost) effortlessly. To do this, you don’t need to be an Excel expert and spend hours building dashboards full of complicated and illegible formulas. Specialized applications exist, and some are even free.
Among them, one of the best known and most popular is Microsoft Money, software that used to be paid for before being made freely available to everyone after the Redmond company completely stopped its development. If this solution remains viable today, we must admit that it has become a little dated. Another application, just as effective but more modern, deserves a look: Money Manager Ex.
This budget management and personal finance software, completely free, offers all the tools necessary to keep your accounts in order and has many qualities. First of all, the application has a simple, clear interface in French, as well as complete documentation… also fully translated into our language!
The application offers all the functions expected to effectively track and manage your money: recording and reconciling expenses and revenues, creation of recurring operations, budget planning with measurement of achievement gaps, ready-to-use graphic reports for easily analyze your finances, everything is there and easy to use.
Money Manager Ex is also multi-platform, and can be used on Windows as well as macOS or Linux, and even Android in a version adapted to mobile device screens. The project is also in active development, supported by an involved community, and regularly receives updates that add new functions or correct bugs.
If you’re looking for a powerful, easy-to-use, and free personal financial management app, then Money Manager Ex should give you exactly what you need. And who knows, maybe you’ll finally keep your back-to-school resolution, and even end up finding accounting fun… or not.