Zune has finally released their MSN Money application for Zune HD. This application is designed to help you keep up with stocks and currency. You’ll remember that this particular application was designed internally by Microsoft employees Mark Flores and Bryan Alger. They were interviewed on the Zune Insider podcast #71.

So go try out the app and let us know what you think!

Here’s a few things to note about the app:

• It’s pretty quick to start up, unlike most other apps
• The menus are: markets, currencies, articles and watchlist
  • markets: overall market conditions
  • currencies: how dollars match against each other
  • articles: stories from money.msn.com
  • watchlist: track your favorite stocks
• Put your finger on any stat to get more detailed information
• Turn your Zune HD horizontal to get a close up of the charts
• Turn your Zune HD vertical, while looking at chart to go back to stats page
• Slide your finger across the chart to see 1 year, 5 year, 3 month-style overviews
• If you want to read an article in more depth, you’re taken to the browser to continue reading

Anyone else find stuff about the app worth noting?

11:30pm update: Seems there’s another app in our midst. Going back to the Marketplace I discovered a game in the games area called Animalgrams, which seems to be a word game about creating words out of words. I’ll probably give that a whirl too, but it’s kind of scary that I’m more engaged in this money application.

It’s probably because I used to love just messing around with Microsoft Money when I was using that program back in the day. =)

July 30th Update: Neville has provided some video coverage of the two apps. Check them out below:

Animalgrams

MSN Money