Fuck Intuit. I wish they never bought mint and I hope they go bankrupt

Wow, this is news to me. I found it so useful to be able to see all of my financial information in one place. I don't want to have to open up 4 or 5 sites all the time just to make sure my bills are getting paid and I don't have any fraudulent transactions.

For me, the killer feature of Mint is that it connected to my accounts and aggregated all my transactions automatically. I cannot and will not input transaction data manually, so things like YNAB are absolutely useless to me.

I've never heard of any other app, free or paid, that can do what Mint can do.

Mint was useful to me for a while until it started forcibly recategorizing stuff with no way to fix it. Tech support was aggressively worthless to the point that I fully shut down every Intuit account I had (they have their tentacles in some surprising businesses). Fuck Intuit and their data hoarding and their anti-taxpayer lobbying and their cold-blooded murder of what was once the only half-decent money tracking app.

My wife and I use Monarch Money. It's good, but not free.

There is a thread on HN about this (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38114512) which includes a link for https://ghostfol.io which I have not tried, but it is open source / self hostable.

Actual Budget is very good. I'm self hosting but you can host with pikapods or other public services and be up and running very quickly.

It's YNAB -esque in implementation.

I use YNAB (you need a budget) it's not free but it's GREAT for setting savings goals, paying back debt, etc.

It's also flexible if you need to break your budget for some reason. You can pull from another bucket easily (gas bill is high, pull from emergency savings or cut from gaming), or just overspend and it goes on a report to keep track and plan better.

The best part is peace of mind on big bills - when it comes time to pay taxes or pay for my 6mo car insurance I've already been saving 1/12 or 1/6 of that total every month leading up to it. I can put everything in auto pay and never have to worry about the money being there.

Seems like a stupid move to destroy such a popular platform, and highlights the risk of relying on cloud services.

Oh good. Glad I signed up 2 hours ago. Fucking A.

Wow fuck Intuit. I'll make sure I never give them another dollar in my life.

I use rocket money. Its free, automatically integrates with all your banks/cards and has great budgeting features. Its not FOSS or self hosted though

Ugh. I shared this with my wife and she is really saddened by the news. We have over a decade of historical data on Mint and she really values the insights it has been able to give to her in planning for a family.

Hopefully, the community can suggest some viable alternatives :|

My credit union has these apps as part of the account. They'll pay bills for you too.

Mint never worked well for me, would regularly fail to load the data from my bank and sometimes it would even create duplicates.

I just use a spreadsheet now. Pretty much all banks have an export feature, i setup a column with category dropdowns

I went from Mint to Money in Excel to Tiller. Tiller has been the best for me. Very stable and highly customizable if you know Excel or Google Docs.

Downside is that it’s $79/year

Upside is that it works really well, has a deep user community and they aren’t selling your data (which Mint definitely did).

I use Rocket Money. The free features seem fine. I'm certain it's not open source.

A little late here - but I adore YNAB. I'll talk about it all day but at it's base it functions off of a digitized envelope system rather than trying to match projected inputs to projected outputs every month.

YNAB has the automatic uploads of transactions (and does try to guess a category for you but you do have to review and approve).

It is fairly expensive. Although the family plan works if you have anyone you're open about finances with (or simply trust the family "owner" not to peek - like my younger sister decided to trust me not to look.)

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Intuit first acquired Mint in 2009, an app that has offered a free way for users to track their budgets, manage expenses, negotiate bills, and keep tabs on subscriptions.

On a support page on Credit Karma’s website, Intuit says “the new experience in Credit Karma does not offer the ability to set monthly and category budgets,” adding that the app instead “offers a simplified way for you to build awareness of your spending, and track your savings.” Intuit says it still plans on adding ways to view transactions, track spending, and aggregate financial accounts.

The Verge reached out to Intuit for more information about the features coming to Credit Karma but didn’t immediately hear back.

Earlier this year, Credit Karma added one of Mint’s key features: the ability for users to track their net worth.

Users can also download and delete their Mint data if they don’t want to move to Credit Karma.

This change seems to have been in the works for quite some time now, as Mint users across Reddit have seen prompts to migrate to Credit Karma over the past few weeks.

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