Your expense analysis is now simplified!

The latest version was released on 20-Jan-2023. Major changes released on this version are:

• A new search icon added to the main menu. Now users can easily find expenses very quickly by typing an item, category, or remarks.

• More navigations are added to the dashboard summary. Now users can tap on the total expense, total income, or comparison results to see more details about them.

• Users can save their expenses or income details in advance for one month. For example, if January is the current month, users can input advance expenses for February as well.

• Stability and user experience improved.

1. What is the Expense Daily app is all about?

Expense daily is one of the simplest expense management apps available in Android. It’s a category-based app, where you can add expenses against a category, and later you can see all your expenses that occurred in that category. This will help you to understand how much you are spending on a category and you can reduce the expenditure next time.

2. From where I can download the app?

Expense daily is available at Google Play Store and you can also download it by visiting this link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.expensedaily

3. What are the core features available on this app?

• Add daily expenses.

• Upload images of bills to expenses.

• Get a detailed overview of your expenses on the home page. You can see details as Pie Chart and as Cards.

• Search for expenses in various ways.

• Download expense reports in PDF and Excel formats.

• Add income details.

• Manage expense categories.

• Reminder for adding expenses.

• Backup your expense details in multiple ways such as Google Drive™ and in offline.

4. Do I need the internet to work with this app?

No, Expense Daily do not require an internet connection to work. But, if you choose the Google Drive backup option, then you need the internet connection for some time, to backup your data, and while restoring them.

5. Is this app free to use?

Yes, it is! Expense Daily is completely free to use and also ad-free.

1. What are Expense Categories?

It’s something where you can group your frequent expenses. For example, Food is one category, and you can add your expenses towards team lunch, breakfast, Friday outings, etc., with this category. Later you can see how much you spent on Food, easily on this app.

2. How can I add a new category?

From the right-side menu, choose Expense Categories. You will be navigated to the expense categories page, where you can see all your categories. On that page, you can see a ‘+’ button. Tap on that button, and you will get a prompt to input your expense category. After that, tap on Save to create it.

3. How can I modify a category?

Tap on the category that you wish to modify. You will get a prompt to modify the category.

4. How can I delete a category?

You can delete one or more categories at a time. For that touch and hold a category. Then, the color of that category will be changed and then you can select other categories if you want to delete them too. Then on the right top corner, you can see a delete button and tap on it. You will get a prompt to confirm the deletion, and after you confirmed, the selected categories will be deleted.

Note: If any of the selected categories have expenses against them, then you will not be able to delete them. You need to delete the attached expenses first to delete such a category.

1. How to add an expense?

You can add an expense easily on this app. In the app's toolbar (located on the top side), you can see a '+' button. Tapping on that will allow you to navigate to add expense page.

2. What are the details I can input while adding an expense?

You need to input the date on which expense occurred, what is the expense category (for example, transportation), what is the expense item (for example, train journey), what is the amount paid (for example, 250) and, optionally you can input remarks (for example, from Mumbai to Trivandrum).

3. Can I upload bills to an expense?

Yes, you can upload images of bills to an expense. For that, tap on the Upload Attachment option while adding expense. You can capture a photo or can browse and upload an image.

Note: You can upload a maximum of five attachments to an expense.

4. Can I add multiple expenses at a time?

Yes, you can input multiple expenses and can save them together. For that, while adding an expense tap on the 'add more' button shown on the add expense page. Then you can input another expense on the same page and save all of them together.

1. How to view/search my expenses?

From the menu, select the Expenses option. On this page, you can easily search and view all your expenses.

2. What are the things I can do on the Search Expenses page?

You can view your expenses, modify an expense, filter expenses based on your wish, sort the results, export results to PDF and Excel reports, and delete an expense.

3. What are the ways I can filter my expenses?

You can use various filtering options such as date-wise filtering, category-wise filtering, filter by item name, show expenses with attachment only, filter by remarks, and more.

4. How can I edit an expense from the search page?

Tap on the expense record you wish to modify. Then, you will be navigated to the edit expense page (similar to add expense), and you can then update the expense.

5. How can I delete expense records?

You can delete one or more expense records at a time. For that touch and hold an expense record. Then, the color of that record will be changed, and then you can select other expenses if you wish to delete them also. Then on the right top corner, you can see a delete button and tap on it. You will get a prompt to confirm the deletion, and after you confirmed, the selected expenses will be deleted.

6. How can I create expense reports?

From the search expense page, you can see a download option. You can download the report in two ways. One is as a PDF file, and the other is as an Excel file.

7. Can I sort the expenses?

Yes, you can sort the expenses in various ways. Such as by the expense date, amount, category, and more.

1. Can I add income details in Expense Daily?

Yes, you can easily add your income details to this app, and later you can see a summary of how much you spent compared to your income. For adding income details, choose Income from the options. You will be navigated to the income page, where you can view and manage all your income details.

2. How can I add an income detail?

On the income page, tap on the '+' button. You will get a prompt to input your income details. Such as income date, item, and the income amount.

3. How can I edit an income detail?

Tap on the income record you wish to edit. You will then get a prompt to edit that record.

4. How can I search for a particular income detail?

You can easily filter or search your income details. For that, tap on the Filter option shown on the income page. Then, you can filter your income details by date and the item.

5. Can I download the income details as some reports?

Yes, to download the income details, tap on the download button. You can download income reports in PDF and Excel formats.

6. Can I sort the income details?

Yes, you can sort income details in various ways. Such as by the income date, amount, and item.

7. How can I delete income records?

You can delete one or more income records at a time. For that touch and hold an income record. Then, the color of that record will be changed, and you can select other income records also if you wish to delete them. Then on the right top corner, you can see a delete button and tap on it. You will get a prompt to confirm the deletion, and after you confirmed, the selected incomes will be deleted.

1. What is all about Expense Daily's dashboard page?

When you open the Expense Daily app, the first page you see is the dashboard page (also known as the home page). This page helps you to get a summary of your expenses and income details, based on a month or a year. By default, you will get details of the current month. You can easily change the date by tapping on the date picker available on the dashboard.

1. I started to use Expense Daily and added some of my expenses. Is there any backup option available for my data?

Yes, Expense Daily have convenient backup options. The backup option helps you to safely keep your expenses, and restore them when needed. For example, when you buy a new mobile phone and wish to move your expense details from the old phone to the new one. To configure backup, choose the Backup option from the menu.

2. What are the ways I can backup my data?

Expense Daily offers two ways to backup your expense details. The first one is an online-backup option with Google Drive. And the second one is a manual offline option.

3. What is Google Drive™ backup?

Using this option, you can safely backup your expense details in Google Drive. The Google Drive backup requires an active internet connection. To configure it, tap on the Enable Backup option. You will be requested to choose a Google account, and on that account, your expense details will be stored. After that, you can see backup is enabled, and later point in time you can see the latest time on which backup performed as well.

4. How can I restore my data from Google Drive?

When you install Expense Daily on a new device and open it for the first time, you will get an option to restore the expense from Google Drive. Here, you need to choose the Google account, which was previously configured and backup data has been kept. You can then proceed with the backup restoration, and after that, you can see the restored expense details on your new device.

5. What is this manual offline backup option?

The offline backup is a manual way of backing up your expense details, and it does not require the internet. For that, at any point in time, you can tap on the Export option shown on the Backup page. As a result, you can see a file is generated on your device. This file contains your expense details. Now, as a next step, copy this file to your new device, and open the Expense Daily app installed on that new device. Then, on the Backup page choose the Import option, and browse this copied file. Once the restoration is done, you can see the imported expense details on your new device.

1. What is this Reminder option?

The reminder option is a very useful feature available in Expense Daily. The app will remind you to add daily expenses based on the time you choose. For example, you would like to get a reminder every Sunday at 9 PM so that you won't miss a chance to input your weekend expenses.

2. How can I set up the reminder?

To set up a reminder, from the options choose Reminder. From there, enable Add Reminder option. You can then select the time and the days where you would like to get the reminders. By default, the app will select all days and the current time.

For example, you would like to get a reminder every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 9 PM. First, choose the time as 9 PM. Then, tap on the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday buttons, and you can see the color of those buttons get changes, indicating the selection of days.

3. I added a reminder, what is the next step?

Once you added a reminder, the app will give you a notification on the configured time. By tapping on the notification you will be navigated to add expense page.

4. Can I turn off the reminder option?

Yes, you can. On the reminder page, you can disable the Add Reminder option, to stop getting further reminders.

We Expense Daily is committed to protecting the privacy of your data. Data that you input into this app shall not be used for any other purposes. When you enable Google Drive backup, we completely adhere to Google policies, and your data shall be securely stored in Google Drive as per Google security policies.

To use this app, you need to mainly provide the below permissions:

• Permissions to list Google accounts available on the device. Required when you enable Google Drive backup.

• Permissions to access device storage. Required when downloading reports, browsing bills, etc.

• Permissions to access the device camera. Required when to capture bills while adding an expense.