My Data Mine is another personal project developed by taking a Google Sheets spreadsheet and making it into a mobile app. The app is very simple. The current version of the app collects vehicle stats for purchases with a specific focus on fuel costs and distance driven. The app displays stats and graphs of fuel efficiency and distance traveled over time.
About
Currently you can collect basic stats for your vehicles to track costs and fuel efficiency and the distance traveled over time.
There are four really important features of this app:
- It’s free.
- No ads.
- All your data is stored on the device (no external hosting).
- You can import and export your data (a text based format called JSON). There is an additional feature to import CSV data.
- You can delete your data (by uninstalling the app).
Why
I personally use the app. There are (likely) other apps out there that collect this kind of information so I (probably) didn’t have to write my own app, but I wanted to keep the information for myself. I also didn’t want to have an app with ads and I didn’t want to pay for an app. Why not stay with the spreadsheet? I’m tired of my spreadsheet and I wanted something more robust.
The app also serves as a way for me to advertise my work.