Pageonce's updated iPhone app brilliantly combines all your online accounts into one app
Quick disclosure: Pageonce recently provided refreshments at a CrunchGear meetup. I wasn’t at this event, though, and didn’t know about it until after I wrote this article.
Unlike Mint, which only focuses on financial accounts, Pageonce pulls information from six different types of accounts: Travel (i.e. frequent flyer programs), Finance (bank accounts), Social, Utilities (bills), Email and Shopping (Amazon or eBay). It is amazing how many different accounts they fit into those six buckets. Netflix? Check. Starbucks card? Check. LinkedIn? Check. YouTube? StumbleUpon? DirecTV? Allstate? Gmail? Check, Check, Check, Check and… Check. There’s no point in getting individual apps for each account anymore. As soon as Pageonce adds a few more features (more on that below) and allows you to wholly interface with each of these accounts from their site/app, it will serve as the primary hub to your various online identities.
Though, honestly, I was sold from the beginning. Setup was a breeze. I just logged into Pageonce on my laptop and punched in my account information for everything I could remember off-hand. It even provided suggestions in each of the aforementioned categories of accounts, so I didn’t forget much. But, for the account or two I did forget to add, I could easily add the information from the iPhone app directly. There were a few hiccups, though. Facebook and a few of my bank accounts required additional steps to verify that I wasn’t some hacker trying to post nude pictures on my Facebook account.
Also, due to the fact that Pageonce aggregates all of your accounts, there were some limits in functionality. For example, though I could see a “summary” of my finances (the individual balances on my credit cards and bank accounts), Pageonce did not add them up to me to show me what my cash flow was like nor did it provide me with an estimate of my net worth. Honestly, though, that is just a matter of time, and I expect Pageonce to provide the financial tools that Mint does very soon.
Pageonce effectively combines all your accounts into one, and has created an accompanying iPhone app that will truly transform the way you interact with your online user accounts. Nobody wants to log into 15 different websites every time they are at a computer (or on their iPhone), and Pageonce has solved that problem wonderfully. If you have an iPhone and more than 3 online accounts (so, everybody who has an iPhone), buy Pageonce’s Personal Assistant for $6.99. You can thank me later.
What we like:
- The Value Proposition. Sometimes a company makes a product that just plain provides value. Pageonce has done that, and I can’t imagine the value proposition to the user being much better.
- Ease of Use. The UI is simple and clean. It gives you everything you want, when you want it, and nothing you don’t.
- Access to everything. I was extremely hard-pressed to find an online account that Pageonce doesn’t allow you to access. Pageonce even reminded me of accounts that I didn’t even remember I had.
What we didn’t like:
- Some missing functionality. Frankly, I don’t feel right making this complaint, but I will anyways: tweeting was a bit hard and I couldn’t write great e-mails from within the app.
- A summary of my financials. Again, I’m just nitpicking, but I didn’t get a full picture of my net worth or the ability to balance my budgets like I can with Mint.