If you are looking for a simple but effective web app which helps you keep track of your spending, then The Birdy is the right one for you. This web app lets you save your daily expense via email and helps you track your expenses over a period of time.

It allows you to add tags to your expense so that you can know what it is that you spent your money on. You can also send in multiple entries if you spent money on more than one item. All you need to do, after creating an account, is to configure the web app to send reminder emails so that you can reply to it in the following format:

$ 100.00 car #gas
$ 10.00 catfood #pets

The Birdy

The expense gets recorded automatically into your account along with tags. If you are living in the US, you can send in the same via SMS. Just register your number and start using it. You can also do this by logging into the account and recording your expense.

The Birdy also provides you with quick comparison of your expenditure month-over-month. This tells you whether or not if your expenditure is going up or down. The pie-chart tells you if you are over spending or under spending on some of the things that you buy.

The story of how this web app came into being is quite interesting. The creator, Corey Maas, has tried some of the existing online web apps to track his expenses. But they were either too complex to use or too boring. He also realized that since he is logged into his email inbox most of the time, he decided to use his email to track his expenses as well.  Thus, The Birdy came into existence.

Its really a cool app and do give it a try. If you have already, do share in your comments about the app.