Joe can see clearly now, soon his debt will be gone

Snoop's latest update has given me the tools I need to really dig into my financial data and push me further to better utilise some more of the app's handy features.

Hitting the 'View your spend analysis' button on the Snoop home screen, I saw some major improvements to the way my spending is visualised.

Tracking month-to-month costs may not be the most fun task, yet it's easier than ever to do with Snoop.

There's a handy line graph that shows the total amount spent in one month compared to the previous month, keeping me on-budget and accountable to my spending limits.

One extra feature I find incredibly useful (that this month came especially in handy) is seeing the monthly cost change for each category under the line graph.

For example, this month I saw there was a small decrease in the amount I spent in the month of July in the Shopping category, letting me know that I had a little more money left over.

I noted the amount I had left over from this category, double-checked my budget and then used that money to pay extra towards clearing debt.

Thanks to Snoop I could easily find these numbers at a glance–no paper-printing or highlighting bank statements in sight!

I’ve often used Snoop to filter by categories, though I have underutilised the ability to filter by merchants.

This is useful to see a breakdown of multiple purchases made at any one given company throughout the month.

For example, if I made two purchases at Amazon for £10 each in July, Snoop would show me that I had spent £20 at Amazon throughout the month.

This helped me with larger figures and balancing out how much needed to be accounted for with merchants that I hadn't yet processed a transaction with, but that I knew were coming up - especially for supermarket retailers!