I want to give everyone a quick update on how things are going. iBank 3.5 and iBank Mobile have been in beta now for about two-and-a-half weeks. Here’s a little insight on how the beta progressed:
We started with a pool of people selected at random (more or less) from all of the people who wanted to help out. To this group we sent a questionnaire to be sure that we had a diverse group of testers. Based on the responses, we chose a very small subset to start the beta. Then the bugs started coming in…
These ranged widely: a particular operation was “slow”… some wording was “misleading”… it “crashes.” The first few days were spent triaging the issues – several were bad, so we worked on fixing those first. Most of them were fairly easy to find and fix, and the beta stabilized quickly.
At that point, we started adding more users. We have now tripled the number of original testers and are continuing to add more. So far things are looking good; there are just two outstanding issues that we have to fix before submitting it to the App Store. There are also a few teaks that would be nice to get done. All in all, it should be about another week and we’ll be ready to go. I do want to give special thanks to everyone in the beta. You have been giving great feedback and really helping us make the product better.
Otherwise it has been really busy here at IGG. With the iBank Mobile beta and the launch of iBiz 4, everyone has been working very hard. Kudos to everyone who worked on iBiz 4 – it looks great! For myself I took Memorial Day off with my family to go to my dad’s house for a BBQ, and a few hours off to see Star Trek (I liked it a lot). Other than that it has been work, sleep and eat since the beta started. So I hope you believe me when I say that we all want to get iBank Mobile out the door.
Hopefully, the next time you hear from me will be when we have submitted to the App Store.
Thanks,
James
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YA!!!! thanks for the update looking forward to it
Thanks for the update I look forward to dropping Cha-Ching and finally having great financial software again.
Now that’s a good update. Tons of useful info. Thanks James.
Sorry i didn’t match the criterias for the beta…
Sounds great though!
Any idea on the time it takes for the app to be approved once submitted?
Did you manage to find a retail price?
Hooray. I switched to a Mac over a year ago and have still been teathered to my PC because of Quicken and Pocket Quicken on my Palm. I have everything else converted to Mac and an iTouch. When iBank for iTouch / iPhone is done, I will convert to iBank and, hopefully, never look back!
Yes!!! I’m having a difficult time trying to patient. This is going to be a very well used app on my iPhone along with access to my bank via iPhone.
Hopefully we will have access to this on iTunes before the middle of June. As Nco mentioned: Any idea on price and release date?
Thanks!!
It is well worth it. Hang on a bit longer fellows. The wait is well worth it!
KJ
What about iphone OS 3.0? Will ibank mobile take advantage of the new features? Will it be compatible??
Apple sent out a memo to Developers saying anything submitted to the app store as of May 1st or something must be compatible with 3.0!
@Nicode70 – I am a beta tester for IBank Mobile and I am running 3.0. Works Great!
KJ