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.

  • downpunxx@kbin.social
    252·
    1 year ago

    Holy fucking fuck this is GREAT news. Mint user for years, attached all my bank and credit card info, it gave me an overview of my finances like a real live human functioning adult, it was great. Then INTUIT bought Mint, and I stopped using it, I didn’t even detach any of my accounts for fear, anything I did would allow INTUIT more access or trigger something that would fuck me up.

    Now it’s closing down, you say? FOOOKIN BRILLIANT. Fuck INTUIT.

    Also, related, I used to use Credit Karma, for years I’d log in once a week to check my credit score and see if there was anything I needed to deal with, then fucking INTUIT bought that too, but I was so pissed off, I waited the 20 minutes to chat up a customer service person and demanded they close my Credit Karma account, and delete my data, and they did.

    Fuck fucking INTUIT motherfuckers, fuck

  • SeaJ@lemm.ee
    10·
    1 year ago

    Once they sold to Intuit, I was fine with them fucking right off.

  • ryan213@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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

  • kescusay@lemmy.world
    51·
    1 year ago

    Many online bank sites have built-in budgeting tools these days. Have you checked if yours does?

  • LennethAegis@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    Dang, I used Mint to get a nice overview of how much is in all my credit cards/bank accounts, a comprehensive list of all purchases, and reminders of when bills are due.

    I have signed up for a trial of YNAB, but I’m so dang confused about how to use it so far. I’ll keep trying, since I have 1 month, but its not a good first impression.

    EDIT:
    I’m trying out Empower and that one seems to be working for me as a good overview of my finances.

        • BlindFrog@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          Same. YNAB is more focused on where you assign/shift tasks for your money to do rather than just tracking where all my money’s gone. It’s envelope budgeting with an app to me, and I’m way more conscious now of whether I can afford things or not.

          The only thing I miss about classic YNAB is having a local desktop copy of my data, even when I had to sync through dropbox.

          Edit: was considering linking the subreddit, but just found we have a decent lemmy instance: https://lemmy.world/c/ynab

  • Brokkr@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Bri Guy @sopuli.xyzEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    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’

  • etchinghillside@reddthat.com
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Youthless@lemm.eeEnglish
    22·
    1 year ago

    I started using Simplifi, also from Intuit. It is paid, but much better than Mint.

      • doppelgangmember@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        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