Mint is a FREE financial website by Intuit (the folks who brought you QuickBooks). It allow users to connect all of their financial accounts and look at them in one place. You can't move your money through their site just view it. Bank accounts, credit cards, investments, student loans you name it you can link it.
Which makes it fantastic! Tracking your spending is easy as it's all there.
Want to make a budget? Make it right in Mint! It's reasonably easy to do and easy to change if you need to. Budgets also carry over monthly as well. You can even make a category for once or every few months.
I love that it shows you your cash vs. your credit card debt; the total amounts you owe in loans and credit cards (probably your mortgage as well I just don't have one of those); your total networth. It's nice not having to manually figure that all out.
There are a some things that I do have issues with though. The first is that when creating your budget it's all monthly including your income. Now some people out there do get paid once a month but what about the rest of us who get paid bi-weekly or even weekly? Being able to chose my own time frame would be nice. Also it would be nice if all of the budget categories had this option
The second thing that could use some improving is the alerts. It shows you when bills are due and how much is owed. I'd love it if I could do it for paydays. I was able to create my own alert but it wants you to put in an amount you owe. I just left it at zero.
Overall Mint is a great site for staying on track of your finances. It's easy to use, free, and will help you on your way to better finances.
I'd have included screen shots but I'm still figuring out GIMP (like Photoshop but free). I may come back and those at a later date.
Have you ever used Mint? Tell me what you think of Mint.
*I was not asked to review Mint. This is my own personal review of Mint. All praise and criticisms are my own*
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