On Wednesday, the App Store welcomed the arrival of a "simple, minimal and beautiful" finance manager for iOS called Balance.

Ahead of the app's launch, MMi caught up with the visionary behind Balance, Joshua Lee Tucker, to see what inspired his latest creation.

"I really do like to look after my finances, and I obviously like to do so using my iPhone," Tucker says. "However, lately I’ve been using Notes.app to do it - as every single finance management application is just too complicated for my usage (and I’m sure they are for other people