Category : Finance
Enjoying this so far - it has the best graphic interface of similar apps and is very user friendly. My phone (Pixel 3a, Android 9) is set to English, so the interface is all in English. A great option is the ability to change settings to display station names in English or Japanese. It also displays a pie-chart-like breakdown of money spent between train travel, vending machine purchases, and shop purchases. Purchases are grouped on the main screen and I can't see which is which, though.
Does exactly what you expect and even more. When I was in japan it scared me going to stations to check my balance, but with this it's so easy, it uses near field tech to scan the card to get the balance and even tells you where you used it, as well as if you used it more on a bus or train, and you can even see where these cards are used most in Japan too if you like stats, it's packed with stuff and the dark theme is nice.
July 2019 - This app was super useful while traveling around Tokyo. Your balance is displayed when you swipe your IC card at stations, but we were also using our IC cards for vending machines and station lockers, so I used this app frequently to check my balance before heading to the station. It was accurate and worked very easily and quickly with my Galaxy S8. I only have a basic plastic case on mine, so I'm not sure if a more hefty case like an Otterbox would make it harder to read your card.
So handy! Really helpful for keeping an eye on our spending as the card can be used for transport, drink machines, convenience stores and some restaurants. I love the little graph that shows how much total you have spent in each category. Also little tip, scan the card at the end of each day as it only holds up to 20 most recent transactions.
Great app! I already enjoyed it for reminiscing about private vacations, but it has proven even more useful for business expenses, what with decoding of station names and export to CSV. I ran into a problem when switching to a new phone and I could not bring the data over, but after contacting the developer about it, he fixed the problem and published an update right away!
It's good, but sometimes slow, however it's free so can't complain. Edit: When I say slow, I mean sometimes it takes 1-2 days before the transactions show up, but sometimes it's instant. I'm pretty sure it's not the apps fault but the system it gets the information from. Edit #2: Thanks for replying so quickly!
Best train card reader. Spent 250¥ to upgrade to ad-free ~video ads were really obtrusive in the free version (have paid for 2 phone apps in my life). Displays multiple cards BUT you can't control the order; seems newly scanned cards display by default when you open the app, not the most used. App report spending categories (train, bus, vending machine)- great (but "e-money" "restaurants" "misc" would be better description) WIDGET is the best feature. Turn off the "World Statistics" option.
Nice reader for the suica cards so you can see remaining balance and history, which is useful. The app can't let you load more money on your card, and scrolling through the history could be a little bit smoother. But what it CAN do is still super helpful and makes this a must-have app for travelling around in Japan.
This easily has to be one of the top 10 best deigned and nicest looking apps I've seen in the Play Store. Hell I'm rarely in Japan and I gladly paid $5 to get ride of ads it was that good. It makes me wonder what the developer could come up with if they put their mind to making a tide chart app that doesn't look like every other garbage tide chart in the store. Now that I would pay $10 for.
Very good app for taking a quick peek at your train card balance. I have only tested it on the suitable, but it works very well. I especially like the widget icon feature of the app.
Works very well and the design layout is nice. I like how it shows the lines of the trains and the colors that correspond with the train lines. If I had a suggestion I'd ask if purchases made on the IC card could be shown as purchases. Great app overall.
Everything you need for your IC Card. Fast and reliable app to NFC scan and check your card history. Statistics page is interesting, but could be extended with the company names if possible. More detailed information of the transactions would be great as well.
works great and is really useful! i don't mind ads normally but the ads from this app would pop up on my phone even with the app closed! became very annoying to try to use my phone with pop up ads! sadly had to uninstall.
Definitely worth buying this app to export all the transactions, especially for company expenses. I only wish it better classified purchases at stores, or at least classified taxis and buses separately. That kind of bit me..
It looks very nice and works quite well even on a non Japanese phone. The full screen ads are a bit intrusive, but worth putting up with.
I loved having this app while traveling for vacation in Tokyo. Can't comment on the features a resident might use but for my purposes it was great. Could easily see how much i had left on my card using nfc on my phone.
Really useful. It was conforming to check my suica card to make sure I had enough money before going on the metro or using it for purchases. Also if you're going to Japan, getting a suica card is highly mandatory. You can get them at any of the major JR train stations.
Great app made it extremly easy for a foreigner to manage my spending without a JR Pass. would recommend. no idea what the competition is like but I see no reason to try anything else. will definitly reinstall if I come back to Japan.
Very useful app but it needs a quick button to turn my NFC reader off again after reading my card. I keep my card in my phone case and the NFC reader is very annoying if left on.
When you place your ic card close to your phone. This app automatically detects card usage. And saves it automatically, so you don't need to open this app everytime you used trains, or bus, etc. I'm usong pasmo (icoco) card.
Really great app, I love it. It is really handing for checking the balance on my ICOCA card. I have the free version, there is a little advert banner at the bottom of the screen on the free version and a while screen advert banner pops up every so often, but i don't mind as these are Japanese adverts in Japan 😁
This is the second app I've used for my pasmo card. By far its the best one yet. Not only does it show your past transactions, its even got the different transit line colors. You can export your data, which can be usefull if you get reimbersed for your travel. Plus you can check your ballance in a snap! Nothing like an app that works well and has a good user interface.