ClearCheckbook started as a simple solution for some basic money management and has grown into an industry player for financial management.
ClearCheckbook began as a simple solution to a frustrating problem - an application developed by a web-savvy college kid, in order to manage his finances and balance his checkbook. Brandon O'Brien created a website that ran locally on his computer, so that he could differentiate between what money he thought he had in his checking account, and what money he actually had in his checking account. He learned very quickly that the money he was seeing "live" in his checking account, wasn't clearing with the actual money he was spending - writing checks, paying bills, late nights out, etc. Brandon took balancing his checkbook to the next step - online, real-time, and with greater functionality than Microsoft Excel, and cheaper (read: free) than Quicken, or similar products.
After a little over a year of using this site only for himself, Brandon began sharing his checkbook balancing skills with interested and like parties. Brandon posted a few screenshots to an online blog as an example of what was helping him manage his finances, and he was astounded with the response; so many people wanted to know where to access his easy and user-friendly checkbook balancing tool. Brandon spent about a week coming up with a name for the site, layout and updating the site to allow for anyone to use. ClearCheckbook went live to the world on May 20, 2006 and became an instant success. Since that day, ClearCheckbook has grown rapidly through three major versions and continues to update and enhance the site capabilities regularly.
Brandon strongly believes that everyone should have an easy and accessible tool that allows them to be in control of their own finances - for free. ClearCheckbook is a site that is easy to use, understand, and interact with for everyone - regardless of technical ability. Brandon believes that managing and taking control of your own finances should be a right, not a privilege. Knowledge and ownership of one's own finances should be effortless for everyone. ClearCheckbook continues to exemplify and adhere to this objective as a tool that enables the user to control and have ownership of their finances - easily, inexpensively, and without headache.
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View Press KitHere are some of ClearCheckbook's major milestones and updates over the years.
ClearCheckbook.com Launched
ClearCheckbook's userbase grows and we build new features and improve our hardware to keep up with demand.
We launch the second version of ClearCheckbook which features an overhaul on the UI, the start of the Reminders / Recurring Transactions tool, Importing and Exporting Transactions, Auto-complete and more. We also pass 1 million stored transactions and over 10,000 users.
ClearCheckbook is moved to it's own private server that we purchased after the site's growth combined with our old hosting solution limitations caused a lot of long load times.
We release a mobile friendly version of ClearCheckbook that quickly gains a lot of traction with iPhone users.
ClearCheckbook v3 is launched which includes another site redesign and the Premium Membership upgrade. This upgrade introduces many of the features still visible today such as the Account Dashboard and the ability to add transactions from any page.
Brandon gives his resignation to his previous job in order to pursue managing, developing and supporting ClearCheckbook full time.
We build and launch our first native mobile applications for Palm WebOS and Android.
The native application for iOS is launched.
ClearCheckbook 2.0 for iOS is released.
The ClearCheckbook app for Windows Phone 8 is released.
We're managing over 50 million transactions
The fourth version of ClearCheckbook is launched. This update includes a responsive design for all screen sizes as well as dozens of new features and updates to existing features. The site manages more than 300,000 users and over 60 million transactions.
While America was celebrating Independence day by blowing up fireworks, our server was doing some blowing up of its own. The amount of data the site was handling combined with the age of our server was causing the site to get overloaded and was down on and off for a few days. We took this as a sign to start looking for a better hosting solution.
ClearCheckbook is moved from our old server to a new hosting solution in the cloud. We now have the ability to scale our hardware based on demand and provide a much more reliable service than ever before.
ClearCheckbook v3 for iOS is released. This is a completely rebuilt app that takes the latest design guidelines into consideration for iOS development.
ClearCheckbook is managing over 90 million transactions from over 350,000 users.
ClearCheckbook MoneyManagement 2.0 for Android is released. This is a completely rebuilt app that takes the latest design guidelines into consideration for Android development.
We launch the ClearCheckbook Affiliate Program to help spread ClearCheckbook to people who might not otherwise hear about us.
We start the initial planning for the largest re-write of ClearCheckbook in over 10 years and will be known as Version 5. This new re-write will see ClearCheckbook moved to a new, more robust, framework which uses all the latest technologies available to us.
ClearCheckbook registers its 400,000th user.
We start work on new versions of both the iOS and Android apps to help provide faster and more user friendly mobile experiences.
We launched an entirely updated version of both the iOS and Android apps. Version 4 of both apps uses the same codebase which will help streamline updates and provide a similar UI across all devices.
ClearCheckbook Version 5 is released! Version 5 was built on an entirely new development framework and includes over 100 updates, new features and bug fixes.
We added the ability to connect ClearCheckbook to over 10,000 different financial institutions so your transactions are automatically downloaded each day.
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If you're not a member of ClearCheckbook yet, we encourage you to watch some videos that showcase the main features of the site on our finance tool tour page.
After taking the tour, you can go to our register page and create a FREE account!
November 20, 2024 - Bug Fix
posted in our Support Forums
November 18, 2024 - Update
posted in our Support Forums
November 16, 2024 - Bug Fix
posted in our Support Forums
November 13, 2024 - Miscellaneous
posted on our Blog
November 10, 2024 - Bug Fix
posted in our Support Forums
