Top 5 FREE Finance Apps
Here are five essential finance apps for your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch that can help you manage business and personal finances effectively. From monitoring commodity prices with **BlackGold** to calculating mortgages with the **Mortgage Calculator**, you can keep all your financial data in one place using **Pageonce Money & Bills**. Instantly settle payments with **Venmo**, and track your portfolio seamlessly with **Wikinvest Portfolio Manager**. These apps will help you stay organized and informed while managing your money on the go.
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The top five finance apps for your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch cover every angle of business and personal finance. Check out these apps that we found on Forbes.com. You can manage all of your bills in once place, check the latest prices of commodities, or control your stock portfolio with unbelievable immediacy and accuracy.
1. BlackGold
Watch the prices of crude oil, gold, gas, natural gas, and heating oil to stay on top of every commodity fluctuation, bullish or bearish. The in-app upgrade provides silver tracking, state-by-state gasoline tracking and an updated user interface.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
2. Mortgage Calculator – FREE
Download the number-one free mortgage calculator, a tool that iTunes calls “the most comprehensive, trusted, and downloaded mortgage calculator in the app store.” Whether you’re a realtor or a client, this app will calculate a mortgage in the most basic way possible.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
3. Pageonce Money & Bills
Pageonce Money & Bills allows you to track your finances all in once place, receive reminders for bill due-dates, monitor your credit card transactions, and even track your frequent flier miles and rewards. You can also add an unlimited number of accounts and track your mobile minutes, text and data usage – a staggering amount of information, at no additional cost.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.0 or later.
4. Venmo
You could say that Venmo is the crown jewel of all finance apps. Link your credit card or bank account to your device, and instantly pay your friend back for dinner while you’re still sitting at the table. Find Venmo-users in your address book and send direct payments to their bank account, via text-message. “Take advantage of Venmo’s rich reporting interface,” with no transaction fees whatsoever.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later.
5. Wikinvest Portfolio Manager
Track your entire portfolio in the palm of your hand. Automatically import your brokerage holdings and stay on top of market news with an app that simplifies your investments on the fly.
BONUS: Download the Forbes Intelligent Investing app and Forbes Investment Guide app for the latest in prime investments and in-depth coverage of the markets.
Become money-wise and master the markets – all before the closing bell.