Install the Pocket Nerd beta on Android
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Pocket Nerd how-tos
Log spending, check your daily target, and find your way around Pocket Nerd.
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Set a spending period
Set the dates and amount for one spending period. This example starts with $700 over seven days.
Log a purchase
Subtract a real purchase from your spending pot. The example is $12.34 for groceries.
Record money received
Add money back to the pot when you receive a refund or other money. This example records a $25 store refund.
Find, edit, and delete
Find an entry, correct its amount, and remove it when it no longer belongs in the pot. This example changes Groceries from $12.34 to $15.34 before deleting it.
Set your comfort zones
Personalize the greeting and choose the gauge thresholds that suit your own spending plan. This example uses Alex and thresholds of 80, 50, and 20.
Read your daily gauge
Switch between the daily target and the total remaining, and expand or collapse the period progress.
Switch among four themes
Preview Simple, HUD, Tranquil, and Campaign using the same spending pot.
Choose a character and dice keypad
Pick a Campaign character and try the optional dice-pip keypad. Dice pips still enter ordinary digits.
Fire at the moving target
Use HUD's target game for a $12 example purchase and watch the firing animation.
Try the coin-flip game
Use Simple's coin flip for a $12 example purchase.
Ask the Daisy Oracle
Use Tranquil's Daisy oracle and wait for the petals to finish.
Roll a D20 and log a choice
Roll Campaign's D20 for a $12 example purchase, accept the result, and explicitly log the purchase.
Record an earlier purchase
Record an $8 coffee purchase and change its date to an earlier day in the active period.
Find pairing and sync controls
Find the code-pairing, automatic-checking, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Dropbox controls.
Review app notifications
Read app messages and clear the demo inbox after reviewing them.
Send an entry to LedgerKeep
Send the $8 Coffee entry from Pocket Nerd to LedgerKeep on the same Android phone.