Closed test

Xtracto is already uploaded to Google Play, but you cannot download it yet: it is in closed testing, so only accounts enrolled as testers can install it. That is not our choice. Before it lets a personal account publish an app, Google requires 12 people in the test for 14 days in a row, and it checks that they actually used it. Until that is done, being a tester is the only way to have it.

If you are already enrolled

Accept the invitation, then install it from Play:

Join the test

Two things that throw everyone off:

Until Google finishes reviewing it, Play shows it as app.xtracto (unreviewed) and not as “Xtracto”. It is the same app: the real name appears once the review is approved.

Install it with the same Google account you accepted the invitation with. If you have several on your phone this is the most common slip, and what you see is the store saying the app is not available.

And if you follow the link and Play says the test is not available, nothing is broken: your account is not on the list yet. Ask below.

What is expected of a tester

Not much, but two things are not optional, and not out of whim: the 14-day counter is Google’s, and someone leaving halfway resets it.

Do not leave the test during those two weeks, and open the app now and then: Google checks that it was used, not just installed.
When you open it you will see a red warning: grant it notification access. Without that it records nothing, because that is all it lives on.
In Settings, check that your bank is switched on. Only the apps you have installed show up, out of a catalogue of 216.
If your bank is not among the ones it recognises, the app is still useful to you: on the Movements tab, the + button records an expense by hand.
And what helps most: if your bank alerts you about a payment and it does not appear, the Captures tab has a “Share format” button that sends a template of the alert without any of your data. That is what it takes for the app to learn your bank.

Ask to join

Play enrols testers by email address: there is no other way to let someone into a closed test. It has to be the address of the Google account you use for Play on your phone.

This page does not send it for you. Type your address below and the button opens your own mail app with the message already written, so you send it yourself and see exactly what goes out. There is no server here, no captcha and nothing stored: the rest of this site asks for no data of yours, and this page is not going to be the exception.

Google account

It does not have to be a gmail.com address: any address can be a Google account. What matters is that it is the one you have set up in Play.

This is what will be written:

To: support@xtracto.app
Subject: Xtracto closed test — please enrol me

Hello: I would like to join the Xtracto closed test.
My Google account is: <your address>

If the button does nothing, your browser has no mail app associated with it; in that case just write to support@xtracto.app with that address, in whatever words you like. And if you write from that same account, you need not include it: it is already in the sender.

I read that email myself, it is used to enrol you in Play and it is deleted once you are in. There is no mailing list and you will receive nothing else. I do the enrolment by hand, so it may take a few hours: you will not get a reply, come back to this page and try the link above. See the privacy policy.