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Seems like a stupid move to destroy such a popular platform, and highlights the risk of relying on cloud services.
It really does. I've been migrating away from cloud services this past year, wasn't planning on losing Mint but there's no time like the present, I suppose.
Wow fuck Intuit. I'll make sure I never give them another dollar in my life.
Doesn’t matter. They have a massive lobbying arm that keeps the US government from making taxes automatic. Unless that lobbying goes away (or politicians start caring about constituents which is much less likely), Intuit will continue making money hand-over-fist from tax software that it can use to fund other dumb shit like acquiring then closing Mint.
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.
That's for wealth management primarily, not budgeting
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 rocket money. Its free, automatically integrates with all your banks/cards and has great budgeting features. Its not FOSS or self hosted though
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I use it without paying and get everything i need.
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 :|
Be sure to export your data. I wouldn't be surprised if alternatives made a feature to upload old data, and at the very least you could pop it into a spreadsheet so it's not completely lost.
Almost every financial app I’ve ever interacted with allows you to export a .CSV file. Hopefully they allow that.
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
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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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.)