I review a lot of apps on iPhone J.D., but often after I review the app, I don't use it again — not because the app isn't good, but because it addresses a need that I do not have. But then there are some apps that I find myself loving even more than I did when I first reviewed the app. A perfect example of the latter is NotifyMe, an app I reviewed a few months ago from PoweryBase that you can use to quickly send yourself reminders. NotifyMe was updated this week to version 1.5, adding the ability to edit the categories and some bug fixes, and a new version 2.0 with even more features (a free update) is in the works. Maybe it is because I always have a lot of things going on at once, and maybe it is because I forget things more than I would like, but NotifyMe has saved me countless times from realizing that I just forgot something that I really wanted to do. So when the folks at PoweryBase offered to send me a free review copy of their latest $1.99 app Bills ~ On Your Table, I said yes right away. It is clear to me that PoweryBase has created yet another useful and beautiful iPhone app.
Unfortunately, I haven't been able to give this app a rigorous testing because a year or so ago, my wife took over the responsibility for paying bills in our family. (Thanks, honey!) Instead, I just played around with this app to get a sense of what it can do. From what I have seen so far, if you are the bill payer in your family, I think you would really like this app.
To make use of this app, you will want to enter all of your monthly bills. For each bill you can select a name, category, average price, due date, whether the bill repeats and if so in what interval, whether you want an alert one or more days (or weeks or months) before the payment is due, and other optional information such as a note. With this information entered, the main screen of the app will then give you a listing of what bills or coming up and which became past due.
As you pay your bills, just tell the app you have done so, or it can mark them automatically when they become due. You can easily view a calendar to get an overview of what is coming up, or view bills by categories.
It appears that this app does a nice job of helping you to remember your bills. When you start the app, you see what bills are upcoming, plus you can have the app send you push notifications to remind you what is due (a feature that reminds me of NotifyMe). The app also includes a payment log, and you can even secure the app with a password. You can also sync with a server so that you can manage your bills either online or on the iPhone (another feature that exists in NotifyMe).
And besides being useful, the app's interface is so attractive that you might even find it pleasant to keep track of bills, strange as that may sound.
The current price is only $1.99, but PoweryBase says that this is just an introductory price and it will cost more in the future. Unless I become my family bill payer again, Bills ~ On Your Table isn't an app that I am likely to use, but if you have a need for this kind of app it looks like an app that you will really enjoy having, perhaps as much as I enjoy using PoweryBase's NotifyMe app.
Click here to get Bills ~ On Your table ($1.99): 
