After putting many many man hours of work into the now named Pocketbook, we finally managed to ship this week.

What is it and what are we doing?

Trying to manage one’s own finances is hard at the best of times. It is none the more evident during tax time when your scrambling around trying to find invoices and receipts to work out your deductions. In Australia, we passed the end of financial year a few weeks ago, so it was out of this that Pocketbook was born.

We are trying to make managing your personal finances less painful. And without having to be a rocket scientist. The goal is to make it a frictionless and pleasant experience.

We are starting with connecting with your bank. Banks generally don’t do a great job at giving you insights into your spending. Some banks give you monthly statements giving you a very generic overview – but this has quite a limited use. Pocketbook is much much more powerful with features around auto-categorisation & tagging, searching and bill detection.

Currently we are supporting the major banks in Australia including Commonwealth Bank, Westpac, ANZ, NAB and St George.

If you want to give it a try, just go to our website at Pocketbook and signup.

This is just the beginning and we plan on bringing some innovation into this space.

Happy 0′th Birthday Pocketbook!