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Trying to stick within your budget is no easy task when you're guessing at your balance. Mint.com's free personal finance service and companion mobile apps change that.
After giving Mint.com access to your bank, credit card, and investment accounts, the password-protected Mint.com app can monitor your accounts, your budget, and even your cash flow. The app presents your money matters in summary form, with the capability to drill down to the item level of a purchase. Follow the trail to the end to edit an item's transaction details or jot down notes or tags.
While previous versions of Mint were largely read-only, the app has come a long way. Now you can set up and mange budgets from anywhere. You can also add transactions as well as new banking and investment accounts to your Mint profile, right from the app.
Mint takes advantage of the Android platform's home screen widget and Live Folder features so you can view your assets without opening the app -- assuming you're not shy about keeping financial details within eyeshot of others. The widget gives you readings for cash and credit debt, and provides a shortcut to booting up the full app. It would be nice if it also listed out alerts and bill reminders, though that would, of course, take up quite a bit of Home screen real estate.
While Mint for Android phones is certainly serviceable, the app running on a tablet is absolutely stunning. It offers many of the visual elements of the full Web site, including charts of your spending, graphs for budgets, and attractive icons. And everything is beautifully laid out in a multipanel interface. Meanwhile, the phone version is largely text-based.
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Personal finance tools from Mint.com. Track, budget and manage your money on-the-go. Sign up for a Mint.com account, add your online banking accounts and access your personal finances all from your Android smartphone. Get started for FREE.EASY MONEY MANAGEMENTMint is the free and easy way to manage your finances on-the-go and see all your accounts in one place safely and securely. Set up a budget, do more with your money and take charge of your financial life. MANAGE YOUR MONEY ANYWHERE* See all your accounts together from checking and savings to credit cards, retirement and more.* Mint automatically pulls in and categorizes your transactions daily. No need to enter your own transactions. * Create manual transactions on the go when you need to track cash spending. * Mint can create a budget based on your actual spending, or you can create your own. Know how much you can spend while you're out.* Avoid late fees and monitor cash flow stay up-to-date with email or text alerts for budgets, fees, due dates, low balances, unusual activity and more.* Track all your investments, including your 401k, brokerage accounts and IRAs.SAFE AND SECUREYour app is passcode protected with a unique 4-digit PIN. If you lose your phone, or even temporarily misplace it, simply deactivate Android smartphone access from Mint's profile page. We've made it easy: with one click, you'll prevent unauthorized access to Mint on your Android smartphone.ACCOLADES* Android Market Editor's Choice and Top Developer* The New York Times Your Financial Situation, in the Palm of Your Hand (April, 2010)* Please note that Mint currently connects to US and Canadian financial institutions onlyWidget users, moving the app to a SD card will disable the widget. http://bit.ly/mintwidgetPlease note that we use a permission called "Directly Call Phone Numbers" which is used by the advice feature. When you read a piece of advice, some have the option to call Mint's financial partner so you can get more information. The Mint app will never make unauthorized phone calls.If you originally installed the Mint app from the Amazon Android Appstore, you will be unable to install this version over the Amazon one - you will receive an error saying the package is not properly signed. You will need to update the app from the Amazon Android Appstore when the latest version of the Mint app becomes available shortly.Recent changes:- Fixes a bug that caused a force close on some phones.- Fixes a bug that caused crashes when saving merchant names with single quotes- The app no longer requires the permission to dial directly.Content rating: Low Maturity
What's new in this version:
- Enhancements and Bug Fixes for 7" Tablets
- Enhancements and Bug Fixes Android 4.1 (JellyBean) Devices
- Bug fix for Settings issue with Nexus 7 devices Phone Recent Changes
- App does not show in recent apps to avoid showing your finances
- General Bug Fixes
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"Nice Idea, but too many problems to be useful"
Version: Mint.com Personal Finance 1.18
Pros
All your accounts, live, in one location.
Free.Cons
Missing transactions.
No way to force an update to get missing transactions.
Duplicate and Triple copies of some transactions. Don't get why.
Security Questions for some accounts are problems. Forgets some, locks up accounts if doesn't know them, no way to force learning them.
Customer support was responsive, but didn't read the issue well enough after two attempts to actually recognize the issue. Given this is a free application, I was impressed that I got a response at all though, so I'm certainly not going to complain about that. It's just too bad, because I was quite willing to work with them to solve.Summary
I think the issues I had could be resolved in a fairly reasonable way. Maybe They will read this...
1) Add transaction verification. Either an automatic run or a manually requested function. this could identify the missing and duplicate transactions. (I'm making the assumption that there will always be the opportunity for errors: bank changes system, session cut short, etc. - things that mean it can't always be done perfectly when the transaction update occurs - so verify.)
2) Create an account mode that never tries to log into the account accept when the user is logged in and requesting a connection. This could reduce the issue of account lock ups and security question learning. -
"Sleek but ridiculously rigid making it pretty useless"
Version: Mint.com Personal Finance 1.18
Pros
Beautiful interface.
Good and easy interfacing with many types of accounts.
Overall, good job at categorizing bills
Nice rendering of spending trendsCons
Way too inflexible:
- Very limited scope for editing categories. For instance, my mortgage, power bill and Ikea bills all appear as "home" spending, so in trends, I see one big undifferentiatied category including recurring and discretionary spending.
- My mortgage is from an insurance company. It didn't appear in Mint's list of banks and I have no login for that account, so Mint simply refused to add my mortgage. It is all the more annoying as it would be so easy to allow, so it is a kind of philosophy that Mint wants you to provide account information or you can go to hell.Summary
The bottom line is that I don't really see the use of Mint. If I can't take action as I can in the original providers' account (like paying bills), and if I cannot customize the display of those information in one single place, adding all information that I see fit, what is the point?
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"Great way to manage money."
Version: Mint.com Personal Finance 1.18
Pros
It automatically updates all your account transactions and balances--credit/debit cards, savings accounts, investments, debt, etc. It's also very user friendly and easy to use.
Cons
None thus far!
Summary
I love this app so much! Mint in itself is a very good idea, and I highly recommend making an account. The website helps you find good deals in terms of savings/checking/credit/etc accounts (you put your opening deposit in, and it lists all the savings accounts in order of interest rate). And with the application (which reminds you of bills you need to pay if you set it up) is just a lovely addition.
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"Left after 15 minutes"
Version: Mint.com Personal Finance 1.18
Pros
An online bank ledger is a good idea. I use multiple devices and it would mean I don't have to be slaved to my desktop to know what my exact balance is.
Cons
You can't set an opening balance. Apparently something you learn in Home Ec in high school is an "advance feature." It assumes the bank's reported balance (which includes pending transactions) is the Word of God and won't let you change that balance in any way to reflect the fact transactions were pending and need to be account for. Their official line was to call it an "idea for a feature." Sorry, that's not a "feature" that's basic functionality.
Summary
Don't even bother.
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