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Chronicle - Bill Organizer
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Many financial apps aim to organize and automate every aspect of your monetary life. But if your biggest budget concern is simply making sure to never miss a payment, Chronicle Pro is for you. The app stays refreshingly focused on one thing: ensuring your bills are in order.
Chronicle Pro gathers your recurring bills in one place, letting you see when each is due, what you owe, and how your income compares to your outlays. The app’s system-wide menu makes it easy to check on upcoming bills and set reminders so you don’t miss a payment. You can pay bills online using the app’s built-in browser—and save your confirmation number or a PDF of the receipt right in the app.
What we love: How simple it is to track your bills, subscriptions, and other regular payments. When adding a new expense, choose a category, set a due date and the payment interval, and optionally add the URL for online payment. Chronicle will notify you when each bill is due and incorporate those payments into your forecast and history. (The at-a-glance overviews of your monthly and annual expenses are especially useful.)
Quick tip: Don’t miss Chronicle’s planning features: Enter your salary and other income and the app calculates what’s left after your bills are paid each month; the Forecast view shows your costs and income and lets you know how much you can spend if you want to splurge. And sign up for a Chronicle Pro subscription to sync your data across devices so you can view, add, and edit your bills on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Meet the creator: LittleFin founder Mike Dattolo learned to code by using AppleScript to automate tasks. Early versions of Chronicle (originally released in 2008) were written almost entirely in AppleScript, using scripting integrations with the Finder and Calendar for features like reminders and attaching receipts. His favourite Chronicle feature is Amount To Save, which looks at expenses that occur only occasionally (for example, an annual car tune-up) and calculates how much to set aside each month to cover them.