Financisto App

[stealthpaws]

I've been using this expense/budget app for years. I noticed I was getting back-up errors re drop box, which I don't usually use, so I went poking around to see what was going on. It wouldn't back up to Google Drive or Drop Box, so I went to Play Store to get an email address to contact the developer (as suggested by the Google error note).

It's gone. Not listed on the Play Store and not even included in "installed apps" on my phone.

My only clue is languages listed are English & Russian. Is it possible Play Store took it down because of a Russian based developer? I know that sounds really "out there", but it's not been that long ago it updated. Why would it just disappear? I've searched to see if there's any mention of it being removed, but can't find anything. There are still active links to it on Play Store, but they return a "not found"-type page. Anyone know anything?

 

[ocnbrze]

what is the app called?

it could be that they stopped developing it or the company or developer went belly up.

 

[mikedt]

Apparently Financisto is open source, and it can still be downloaded from here.
https://financisto.en.softonic.com/android

...and here's the github page for the app's source code, if you want to have a go at building it yourself.
https://github.com/dsolonenko/financisto

I'm not sure Google would remove and ban a dev just because they're Russian?

 

[The_Chief]

No, but Russia is one of the countries that have long been identified as cesspools of malware and spyware. I don't know that the particular app you're talking about is one of those, I would be very wary of anything coming from Russia, Vietnam, or China.

 

[ocnbrze]

just an fyi, you can get the financisto app on apkpure:
https://m.apkpure.com/financisto/com.bluecatsoftware.financisto