What are you moving to now that Mint is shutting down?

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November 3, 2023
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Wondering what folks are planning to migrate to now that Mint is shutting down. I've used it since 2009 or so... feels like my whole financial life is in there. It was never perfect, but I still found it incredibly helpful.

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Yat70b

So far, the only one that is free and comes close is Empower. It is definitely a different navigation and is geared to your retirement/investments as well. I also use Wave (which is free). Wave is geared more to small business, so is also not exactly the same. I like the actual financials to see my data in Wave. The categories are GL accounts and you can tag items. I also would have paid to keep mint. I have also tried Dave Ramsey's software and do not like the way it works. I find it harder to navigate and get my data. I used Mint while I got out of debt. Answer IMO that is free: Empower or Wave. Very disappointed Intuit decided to cancel it instead of offer at a price.

Twistof82

Beyond frustrating!

Ive tried Credit Karma and absolutely hate it! I do not need credit, creditcard, bank services etc. Credit Karma is more for people with bad credit who is looking to improve tier credit or people just starting out developing credit. I also tried Quicken, Quickbooks online, Monarch, to list but a few. None as good as MINT. Now I see Fidelity is offering Emoney connections and in FULL VIEW I can see and track all my accounts. Only problem is it is not available on mobile so will always need to check in on computer.

Grrrr!!!!

leathej1

Were you able to download your transactions? I made the mistake of migrating before downloading, and now I cannot access my data going back to 2008. CK support is about as much help as you might expect.

Twistof8

My mint won’t transfer to CK. The little bit I saw about CK is way inferior. I don’t care about my credit. I don’t need a credit card. CK is all adverts regarding the two. I am an investor on 5 or 6 platforms and Mint helped me keep track of all investment portfolios. I’ve tried Co-Pilot money, Monarch, quicken, QuickBooks online. None as good as mint. In the end I think best will be Quicken for those who invest and don’t care about credit or credit ratings.

lurquhart

Agreed. Nothing but ads.

CaptainTony

I just switched to Monarch Money and love it. A former Mint product manager and others worked on the Monarch product. It does cost $99 per year, but no advertisements or pushing of products. Apply promo code mint50 to get 50% of annual fee and a 30 day free trial before you are charged for first year. Just cancel before it is charged.

You can download transactions from Mint and load into Monarch, however I chose to just start with all new connections and let it pull in whatever transactions it could. I was surprised that the first sync pulled in many of my transactions from all of last year. I was most interested in seeing my Net Worth, but really seems to have all of the cash flow, spending, budgeting, goal setting you would want.

I did my research before choosing Monarch, just Google it, but with a 30 day free trial there is really nothing to lose other than the time it takes to perform the initial setup and syncing with all of your accounts.

lurquhart

I hate this and miss Mint. All I get are ads. Is there another good option?

tvinci1

Been following and commenting on this occasionally. Migrated to Monarch on the 30 day trial and 50% off 1st yr.
Took some time to create correct transaction category links. And like Mint a few problem financial institutions don’t link. Uploaded manually until the create that link. But generally it mirrors mint w account, transaction, budget and investment tracking. I don’t do investment transactions. Leave that to my financial advisor.
Able to transfer last year info set up budget for 2024. some things seemed to be missing. You need to open all the categories to check the individual transactions.
Happy I can monitoring things from my phone just like mint. I want to see about migrating my remaining data since 2010.

For a plan B may move things to Credit karma as back up to retain my historical data since it’s free as I understand.

tvinci1

Monarch using Monarch for 22 days. I have completed migrating my Mint Data going back to 2010. Had to synch in 3 batches but monarch makes this very user friendly with detailed but easy to follow instructions. Aligning transaction categories is easy but can be time consuming if you want accurate expense and net worth history. Regardless on the accuracy of past history, Monarch graphics provided are way beyond Mint. They show a count down clock on the 30 days free trial. And it’s worth it. Then $50 1st yr.

13yearsandcounting

i tried transferring to credit karma. all my transactions are gone except two credit cards.

make sure you download your transactions first. this transition is not being handled well at all.

lurquhart

I have tried the new Turbo Tax but it is horrible. Nothing but ads. Please bring back Mint.

Ecrot225

I’ve tried to setup an account with credit karma and having issues with credit history being lockout.
reading through people’s experience with credit karma makes me think twice of this is the right app to use or do I go back to using quicken, which I used years ago.
it would seem that since all of these financial apps are opened y intuit that there would have been a straight forward and easy way to switch over.
over 4 years of data on mint and what a hassle to download to excel and then reload to quicken.
what a mess.
if anyone is aware of a better financial management tool, would like your feedback.
thank you

Sandra_

As many others have said, Empower or Monarch are good. I tried Rocket Money, and it is pretty good. There is a learning curve, and it had trouble connecting to all of my accounts. But is does work, and it is free for me. It is possible to import your data into Rocket Money (only 3 years worth).

However, since my FA has coincidently changed their system, including a better solution for financial monitoring of my personal accounts in addition to the investments. So, this is what I am using. Much better way to get the big picture, and none of the others I tried could do this.

I have had Mint for years, and it was hard to move. 😕😕