What was Mint?
Mint was one of the first personal finance services to show all your accounts in one place. It connected to your bank accounts, downloaded your transactions, and categorized them for you.
Mint was free. It made money by recommending financial products to its users, based on their purchases and their existing accounts. It launched in 2006 and was sold to Intuit in 2009, and for years it was the app most bloggers recommended first.
In December 2020 Intuit also acquired Credit Karma, and it later chose to put its effort there. Credit Karma earns money the same way Mint did: it recommends credit cards and loans based on a user's financial data, and receives a commission when the user takes one.
What happened to Mint users
Intuit announced that Mint would close and asked its users to move to Credit Karma. Credit Karma has some of Mint's features and is missing others, and the missing ones are mostly about budgeting.
When did Mint shut down?
According to Credit Karma, Mint shut down on March 23, 2024.
Which Mint features does Credit Karma support?
According to Credit Karma, you can still see all your accounts in one place, view transactions, track spending and cash flow, and see your net worth.
Which Mint features are missing?
Credit Karma does not support monthly budgets or tracking your spending by category.
What does Credit Karma add?
According to its website, Credit Karma lets you monitor credit scores from two credit bureaus and gives personalized recommendations for building credit.
Alternatives to Mint
Several personal finance apps have grown up since Mint first launched. Which one fits depends on which part of Mint you used most.
Weekly: if you want a simple budget you'll keep
Weekly is a budgeting app focused on tracking and managing your spending. It replaces category budgets with one weekly spending limit.
Weekly is free to start. Weekly PRO adds automatic bank syncing and is $7.99 a month or $47.99 a year. See pricing, or read the full comparison between Weekly and Mint.
Copilot: if you want net worth and every account in one view
Copilot is a good fit if what you valued most in Mint was tracking your net worth and seeing all your accounts together. It is a paid subscription.
YNAB: if you want to give every dollar a job
YNAB is built around a zero-based budgeting system, where every dollar is assigned to a category. It is a paid subscription.
What former Mint users say about Weekly
Finally. I used to use Mint, but I hated having to categorize everything. With this app, you track what's static and recurring and the rest is your weekly budget in one lump sum. I also love that it syncs with my bank and notifies me when new transactions come through. Its a great app with amazing customer support as well!
★★★★★ Phiners
Best budgeting app! Hands down the easiest budgeting app that actually works! I have tried mint, Dave Ramsey, and many others and this simplifies it down to what you really need: how much can I spend a WEEK (especially for tight incomes) vs A MONTH (more apt to loose track of financial expenditures/accountability). Weekly has been so much easier to use… than any other app I have tried!
★★★★★ Late Fees and Rejection
Game changer. My wife and I used Mint for over 8 years, but we always struggled to have money left at the end of the month. We've been using Weekly for several weeks now, and what's amazing is that we seem to have money left over each weekend to go out to eat, or do some fun family activities. The app is really well done and intuitive, and it's great that I can share an account with my wife, so we can work together to stay on budget.
★★★★★ Justin Carboneau
Please read. This is a phenomenal app…. it basically forces you to enter regular income and expenses. It then calculates a weekly budget of what is left over. This is very powerful… I found this to be the BEST system to date. I have tried YNAB, quicken, mint and a few others. Download it and try it. You can finally find your adult allowance. LOL
★★★★★ thepurists
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