Currencies is a simple and straightforward currency converter. It is not intended to be used for realtime financial business, rather to be a handy companion e.g., on vacations.
- The app supports all relevant currencies. You can choose between several exchange rate providers:
- frankfurter.app with over 30 currencies, provided by the European Central Bank
- OpenExchangerates: contains over 160 currencies, with hourly updates
- InforEuro: provides the European Commission’s official monthly accounting rates for the euro and over 150 corresponding conversion rates
- Bank of Canada provides about 23 currency rates of the Canadian Central Bank
- The Norwegian Central Bank Norges Bank lists some 40 exchange rates
- The Russian Central Bank Bank Rossii gives probably the most reliable data of exchange rates to Russian Ruble. Some 44 exchange rates are listed
- The UI is simple and pure Material 3 Design.
- Exchange rate history: Check out the chart for the past year, to see how the currencies have developed.
- Historical rates: You can use rates from prior dates.
- A major feature is the included calculator. Useful e.g., if you want to split up a restaurant bill.
- Fee calculator: optionally add a customizable foreign exchange fee to all calculations.
- Currencies is written for Android in Kotlin, targeting Android 13 and supporting light and dark themes.
- The app is ad-free and doesn't spy on the user.
Check out CONTRIBUTING.md, if you are interested in participating.
Copyright 2020 Maximilian Salomon
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.