The Future of GFolio
TL;DR: There isn’t one. Probably.
I have ceased serious development on this app about 10 months ago, and I have just pulled the app from the App Store. The Google Finance API (the main data source that GFolio uses to sync your portfolios), has been officially deprecated since May 26th, 2011, and service will be cut off on October 20th, 2012.
I am not sure what the future will be for the app itself, but it’s not looking good. I have investigated the possibility of making a portfolio service myself, but it’s not looking very hopeful. If I do decide to go through with making a new portfolio service, it will most likely be a different product from GFolio.
I would like to thank my loyal customers for these years of continued support and usage, and I hope that you’ll be able to use my new portfolio service (if it does decide to materialize).
Keita Kobayashi
GFolio 2.5.1
Obviously, I haven’t been updating this blog very regularly. I plan to do this more often from now on.
There’s a lot to catch up on: First, I have lowered the price of GFolio to $2.99 USD. Second, coinciding with the price drop, I have decided to stop selling the free version of GFolio.
Third – this is a big one – is news from Google. Google says that the Google Finance Portfolio Data API – the way GFolio accesses your financial portfolios – has been deprecated. Immediately, there will be no effect – Google has no plans to shut down the service; they have just decided to end development. This means that GFolio will function as expected for the time being.
I am currently investigating the possibility of starting a GFolio API to manage portfolios. If I do choose to take this path, your portfolios will be transferred seamlessly and continue to work as expected even in the event that Google decides to shut down the Google Finance API.