App ReviewSpend Stack — Beautifully Crafted

I love every­thing about Spend Stack… espe­cial­ly the back­sto­ry. If I ever do build my Elephant’s Paycheck app, I fan­ta­size that I’d have a sim­i­lar sto­ry and approach.

Spend Stack is an app you can use with fam­i­ly mem­bers to track lists of things where you care about the total cost — a shop­ping list, a bud­get for a birth­day par­ty, or the exe­cu­tion of chores towards a sav­ings goal.

Go get it.

I’m excit­ed about Spend Stack because it sits square­ly at the inter­sec­tion of my top inter­ests: tech­nol­o­gy, per­son­al finance, and crafts­man­ship.

Jordan, the devel­op­er, talks about work­ing on the app for five years. Adapting it as they used it. Deeply under­stand­ing their own habits, and the way iOS works. Amazing.

Just look at the result. It’s beau­ti­ful. Look at the way he uses shared lists for col­lab­o­ra­tion; at the speci­fici­ty of how he deals with tax­es and dis­counts on pur­chas­es. Hear how excit­ed he is as shown by how he could­n’t help but talk to his friends about it… and of course take their feed­back and make it bet­ter.

Finally, look at how proud he talks about the var­i­ous fea­tures that show his atten­tion to details. The abil­i­ty to undo trans­ac­tions, the abil­i­ty to use iCloud to share lists, and more.

I’ve got some ideas just read­ing the Spend Stack back­sto­ry and hear­ing sto­ries like Jordan’s is huge­ly moti­vat­ing.