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Know Your App Spending
Recently Michael tossed an informal poll asking how much anyone budgeted for the month on iTunes purchases for both music and Apps. Quite frankly I don’t even surpass the $7 mark in a month and the expenditures that are made derive mostly from Apps and I was curious in knowing how much I had invested in them. They’re addicting and convenient little buggers that can get out of hand if you don’t pay attention to how much the prices add up.
Surprisingly enough, there is a free application that tells you just that. It’s called App Store Expense Monitor and it sits discreetly on your status bar.
Upon initial launch, it scans your iTunes folder for “.ipa”-files, extracts the contained information about it and displays the total amount of money you spent on the App Store.
The inventory of Apps that it catalogs is not just limited to purchased ones but it equally displays free Apps that you downloaded as well.
If you’re an organization freak like me, you’ll even appreciate being able to export your entire list of purchased Apps straight into a spreadsheet (.CSV format) to be opened and styled with the Numbers.app for archival purposes.
