Changes in V6 are a step in the wrong direction

At this point you should save your money and not buy this app.

I owned V5 which I paid $10 for and for that price and the functionality V5 had, I think it was worth it.

V6 takes a few steps in the wrong direction

For starters the screenshot on the app store showing 4.5 mice from macworld is misleading, that review was not for version 6 of the app.

The removal of color as an indictor of when bills are due is an unfortunate change - the color coding was a great feature, I cant understand why youd have a feature with value, then remove it.

Whereas you used to be able to glace at the color of the icon in your menubar to see if you had any bills upcoming, this feature has sadly been removed in this version.

As other reviews have commented the icons used to represent each bill have also gone to monochrome, which really just makes no sense.
Some people may long for the days of the black and white Macintosh SE, or the first NeXT cube, but most of us do not, and happily use color as an aid.

Ironically, Every single development tool uses color coding to help the developer during development - I wonder if this one found that he did better with all black text?

At this point this point the app is just a step above a free todo list manager like wunderlist and I can no longer reccomend it.

In addition the price increase to $20 seems just wrong to me - I understand the logic "If it saves you one late payment..." but still, the app doesnt do /that/ much, and now with V6 it does even less.

As an alternate, consider starting with the free program wunderlist - you can make a list of your bills, set recurring reminders, and wunderlist syncs with your mobile device, all for free.

If the developer lowers the price and brings back color in the menubar icon, then Id rate this as 5 stars, but for now, I just dont understand the direction the app is going in, its certainly not better for the customer, and for that I have to give it one star. I hope I can change that soon!

(If you have any doubt about this, please click my user ID and look at my other reviews, most of them are positive!)

Basementjack about Chronicle - Bill Management, v6.0.1