Free Expense Monitor tells you just how much you spend on apps

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If your New Year’s Resolution, like mine, is to budget more frugally, thus sparing your kneecaps another loan shark shattering, you might want to download the App Store Expense Monitor.

if you spend as much on apps as I do, you might not: I had previously been unaware that mere numbers could punch their way through my solar plexus.

What the App Store Expense Monitor does is scrutinize your iTunes library, locating all of the apps you bought through all of the iTunes accounts on your computer, and then adds up the total based upon their current price. If the current price isn’t the same as what you paid for it, you have the option to edit the prices, which is a nice feature.

A handy if depressing little program. I had no idea how much all of those little $0.99 cents purchases could add up. Apparently, if I’d never bought an iPhone at all, I could have afforded to pick up that kidney transplant I had my eye on… and that was just in 2009.

[via Lifehacker]

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