I’ve used Mint for many years. It has never worked well, its budgeting tools are inaccurate, and the UI is garbage. I guess you can say I’m not too broken up about this. I do very well with an Apple Numbers spreadsheet every month. That said, if there are other better options out there, I would consider them.
Once they sold to Intuit, I was fine with them fucking right off.
I liked mint because of the trends that it could report over months of time. I’ve started using you need a budget which has been going well. It requires more user input, but i feel like it’s similar to balancing a checkbook ( I’m assuming, I never had to do that). I’ll have to figure out how to get annual reports out of YNAB, but it shouldn’t be difficult.
I really gave YNAB a serious go. I hated it. I talked regularly with their CS and just could not make sense of it. I found it maddening. Maybe it’s my shortcoming, but what a miserable experience.
I also spent a lot of time reviewing the budgeting process with their support team. It’s definitely a change of pace but it’s something I can accommodate. The best budgeting app is the one that works for you 🤷🏻♂️.
SAME. Confusing as fuck.
Tiller makes sense to me, on the other hand.
I used it years ago but I kept getting logged out of all the accounts it integrated with. It’s just got annoying having to reconnect each time so I stopped using it.
Google Sheets for me these days. Lol
The only features I appreciated were “free” and “can import data from (almost) everywhere.”
I’m willing to give up the former, but I’d really miss the latter - I use Mint mostly to track spending.
Many online bank sites have built-in budgeting tools these days. Have you checked if yours does?
I switched to personal capital years ago because of the better UI compared to mint. Linking to other accounts also seemed to work better. Empower bought them a few years ago, but hasn’t enshittified the site much yet. I would still recommend trying it. The service is free, but they will try to bug you from time to time to change your investments.
I tried it. They can’t sync with Apple Card.
Same here. The Personal Capital tools are amazing. I really hope Empower doesn’t mess it up because I’ve put a ton of work into getting everything the way I want it.
Mint was always such a pain to use, it literally felt like a better version of spreadsheets at times.
I haven’t used budgeting tools recently, but there was one called Emma I think, they’re based out of the UK. And I think there was one called TrueBill though I never used them myself.
EDIT: okay so TrueBill got acquired and are now ‘Rocket Money’
Can’t view article. Any particular reason why?
Seems like easy enough access of peoples data to easily sell and profit from. I can imagine creating and maintaining integrations with various banks or systems could be annoying.
I started using Simplifi, also from Intuit. It is paid, but much better than Mint.
Monarch is great They’re running a 60 day trial for new accounts right now too https://www.monarchmoney.com/referral/iufdeoug31
Looks intriguing but $100 USD a year is a lot for me
I understand My pro-tip is sometimes they run sales for 50% off so only $50.
Try during black friday this year
I gotta say its really good with connecting to financial institutions and categorizing expenses automatically so imo its been v helpful with tracking spending categories like groceries, gas, misc, eating out, etc. Better than mint when I used it
Doesn’t sync with Apple Card
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Definitely should report that. But they’re dev is really good and they have great customer support!
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