Over the past few weeks, many of our users have asked us if our product works on the iPad and/or iPhone.  While support for iPhone is on the way, I’m happy to say that inDinero works quite well on the iPad.  In fact, I find myself using inDinero equally as much on my iPad as I do from my laptop.

When the iPad was released back in April, we made some intentional design changes to accommodate future iPad users.  We decided to drop Adobe Flash from the application completely, in favor of html5/canvas.   For example, if you’re a frequent user of our Trends functionality, you’ll notice that we have a lot of interactive graphs, and that none of them are in flash.  But up until the iPad was released, we had been using homegrown Adobe Flash charts.  In any case, they’re all gone now.

I’m confident that over the 18 months or so, other financial apps on the internet will migrate away from Adobe Flash, if only to appeal to passionate iPad users.  The only problem is that so many popular finance sites (Google Finance, Yahoo Stocks, Mint.com) have interactive graphs that are powered by homegrown Flash code — and if you’ve invested years into developing on that platform, it’s hard to just throw it away.  At inDinero, we were  originally reluctant to throw away months worth of engineering time, but we found it pretty easy to migrate everything over to existing javascript libraries that worked equally as well.

Props to our friends at Freshbooks for having an iPad compatible product too.  Keep on the lookout for the inDinero+Freshbooks integration

Jessica Mah (ceo@indinero.com)
Founder/CEO, inDinero.com