Mint Has Made Sense of My Financial Life
Mint is hands down the best online personal finance tool out there. I've been looking high and low for a way to organize my money and budget with a low amount of maintenance. Better yet, Mint is free!
It took only a week of using the tool before I was completely sold.
I've never been incredibly dedicated to tracking my finances. That said, they've never been terrible complicated. In the last few years though, things have got a bit out of hand. Like a lot of people, my wife and I have multiple credit cards, multiple bank accounts, a mortgage, multiple retirement accounts and a few scattered investments.
I've been looking high and low for a tool that tracks my cash flow, sets budgets and give me a view of all my assets at a glance. Being a Mac user, my options were few and far between. There were a few tools that looked promising: Money Well, iBank and Quicken for Mac. Money Well and iBank have there strengths, but lacked my #1 requirement. The tool must be able to quickly and easily connect to my bank accounts and pull down the data. I decided that I'd heed the advice of many internet posts, bite the bullet and purchase Quicken. The caveat here was that I purchesed the Windows version and ran it via Parallels Desktop. It ran great in Parallels and I was initially very intrigued by the new cash flow feature. In the end I still had trouble connecting to all my accounts, still had to manually categorize items and all my credit card purchases were mysteriously left out of the cash flow tracking.
I'd heard about Mint, but was skeptical about an online tool. My impression was that it would be slow, buggy and not secure. After reading about security on Mint's site and after completing the incredibly simple registration, I was starting to be swayed. In a few quick minutes Mint had connected to all my accounts and I was up and running. It took only a week of using the tool before I was completely sold.
I've been looking high and low for a tool that tracks my cash flow, sets budgets and give me a view of all my assets at a glance. Being a Mac user, my options were few and far between. There were a few tools that looked promising: Money Well, iBank and Quicken for Mac. Money Well and iBank have there strengths, but lacked my #1 requirement. The tool must be able to quickly and easily connect to my bank accounts and pull down the data. I decided that I'd heed the advice of many internet posts, bite the bullet and purchase Quicken. The caveat here was that I purchesed the Windows version and ran it via Parallels Desktop. It ran great in Parallels and I was initially very intrigued by the new cash flow feature. In the end I still had trouble connecting to all my accounts, still had to manually categorize items and all my credit card purchases were mysteriously left out of the cash flow tracking.
I'd heard about Mint, but was skeptical about an online tool. My impression was that it would be slow, buggy and not secure. After reading about security on Mint's site and after completing the incredibly simple registration, I was starting to be swayed. In a few quick minutes Mint had connected to all my accounts and I was up and running. It took only a week of using the tool before I was completely sold.
Top Five Things I Love About Mint
- Great User Interface - Scanning the list of transactions is a breeze when you can actually read them.
- Adding Accounts is Simple - Chances are if you have an online account at a financial institution, Mint can connect to it.
- Email Reminders - Mint allows you to set alerts which sent you an email anytime a big deposit or purchase is made.
- Weekly Budget - Even if your so lazy you can't hit "login", Mint will send you an Email recapping your financial week.
- Beautiful Pie Charts - I don't like to look at these charts because of what they tell me about my spending habits, but they're so darn good-looking it's hard not to!
New Investment Account Feature!
I haven't had the chance to explore this in depth, but it has already surpassed Quicken in terms of giving an accurate account balance for my 401k. Quicken connects to my account but has always given me an account balance of 0. I was forced to update it manually. Mint connected to my 401k account with ease, displayed the correct account balance and showed up as a net asset in the overview screen. Mint.com Reviews
Here is what some other folks are saying about Mint.
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- Piaw's Blog: Review: Mint.com
- Piaw's Blog Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Review: Mint.com
I was one of Mint.com's private beta users, so I'll give it a quick review now that the press embargo is over.The traditional approach to personal finance is epitomized by Quicken or Microsoft Money: basically, a double-entry book-k - Screenshot Tour: Is Mint Ready for Your Money?
- After just four weeks of their public beta financial management web site Mint is already boasting over members and managing
- Mint: The easiest way to manage your personal finances ยป VentureBeat
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- A MapQuest for Our Money - New York Times
- Review of Mint.com
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