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Budgee 1.5 will be available in the App Store early this next week unless there are unexpected delays during the Apple review process. There are two major features which are entirely new in this release:

Multiple Budget Support

One of the limitations on pre-1.5 Budgee is that you are always working with a single budget. If you wanted to keep budgets around from previous periods, you couldn't. If you wanted to track other projects, a kitchen remodel for example, you couldn't do that either - not unless that was the only budget you tracked. Starting with this release, Budgee will now support multiple budgets. If you want to delete a budget after you've exported it, you can still do that, but Budgee won't force you to do that if you don't want to.

Multiple Budgets

Budgee Web - an alternative to CSV export

Until now, the only way to extract budget info was via the CSV export to email.  Over the last two months or so, I've been getting more reports of CSV export to email failing for users.  I've released several fixes that attempted to work around the issues.  In the end, there is a bug within the core iPhone/iPod Touch itself that is causing these issues and there isn't anything I can do about it until Apple fixes it (there is an open bug report on the item).  So CSV export to email will remain in Budgee, but you'll get a popup notification if your particular data runs into the Apple bug.  With Budgee Web, all of those issues go away.  In a nutshell, Budgee Web is an internal web server built right into Budgee.  It only runs while you have the Budgee Web screen open and it is only accessible while on a Wi-Fi connection.  It allows you to browse to your iPhone/iPod Touch and download CSV data right from your PC/Mac using Safari, IE, Firefox, Chrome, or whatever you'd like.  Right now, Budgee Web only supports downloading transaction information in true CSV format, but the CSV data that was previously exportable via e-mail is also an option (just not as a .csv file).  This is simply the start for Budgee Web - it's one of the features I would really have liked to hold off on until 2.0, but I'd rather put it in place early so that anyone having CSV export problems can easily work around the email bug.

Budgee Web

Version 2.0 of Budgee will have several upgraded features as well as at least one new major feature. The "under the hood" components of Budgee are also being re-written to support future features and to greatly improve application performance & stability. The 2.0 release is currently targeted for on or before May 1st. Between now and the 2.0 release, there will be a series of minor updates to further improve existing Budgee functionality.