Mint.com Personal Finance

by Intuit

Product Details

• ASIN: B004T2P7MQ
• Original Release Date: May 4, 2010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 24, 2011
Rated: Guidance Suggested This app may include dynamic content. What's this?

All Ages

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for all users and contains no objectionable content or advertisements.




Guidance Suggested

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is appropriate for most users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, infrequent or mild references to violence, profanity, or crude themes, or other content not suitable for all ages.







Mature

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for mature users. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, mild sexual and suggestive themes, nudity within medical, informational, or artistic contexts, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for mature audiences.







Adult

Based on information provided by the developer, the content of this application is only appropriate for adults. The app may include account creation, location detection, user generated content, advertisements, explicit references to or images of drugs, alcohol, tobacco, graphic violence, profanity, or crude humor, sexual and suggestive themes, nudity, simulated gambling, or other content only suitable for adult audiences.



This application contains content that is downloading real-time, based on inputs from the user or developer. The maturity rating associated with this application pertains only to the static elements of the application and does not cover any dynamic information (e.g. websites, friend postings, tweets). Dynamic content is defined as any content that may change within the application. Content can include animations, video or audio.
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (211 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,245 Free in Appstore for Android (See Top 100 Free in Appstore for Android)
  • #5 in Appstore for Android > Finance

Product Features

• See all your accounts together, from checking and savings to credit cards and retirement
• Mint automatically pulls in and categorizes your transactions daily; no need to enter your own transactions
• Mint can create a budget based on your actual spending, or you can create your own
• Avoid late fees and monitor cash flow, stay up-to-date with email or text alerts for budgets, fees, due dates, low balances, and unusual activity
• If you lose your phone, or even temporarily misplace it, simply deactivate your mobile device's access from Mint's profile page

Technical Details

• Size: 6.3MB
• Version: 2.6.1
• Developed By: Intuit (Privacy Policy )
• Application Permissions: (Help me understand what permissions mean)
  • Get notified that the operating system has finished booting
  • Open network sockets
  • Write to external storage
  • Access fine (e.g., GPS) location
  • Access information about networks
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

153 of 164 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great investment management! April 4, 2011

By Ryan

04/04/2011: Mint.com is owned and run by Intuit, a little company with some experience in the tax and investment arena. (TurboTax, Quicken, QuickBooks, business marketing and management, etc.)
The only similar website/app pairing in this department I've used is PageOnce.com, which focuses more on bill tracking and general web login aggregation. If you want something to monitor and remind you for all of your utilities, credit cards, ebay bidding, and that ilk, look at the PageOnce app. It has a free version and a paid version that allows more than a handful (5? 10? Haven't used it in a while, myself,) of tracked websites. The paid version is $15 IIRC, which is more than your average app purchase, but the website is free to use, which is the vast majority of the service.
Mint focuses entirely on the investment and credit end of finances. You'll provide your car loan account, mortgage, credit cards, CDs, and stock portfolios and mint will provide (very!) easy to use budgeting tools and inform you of a relatively wide range of customizable alerts, most of which are disabled by default.
There are a few features that I was particularly pleased about when I realized they were there:
- Mint tracks your property values via Z!llow, to compare with what you owe on your mortgage. Cringeful at times, but still good to know.
- Mint reminds you to obtain a current credit score on a regular basis; vital to watch out for identity theft or credit snafus if your credit/bank accounts don't do this for you already.
- Mint will guide you to invest for large future purchases with the "Goals" feature by guiding you to (advertised affiliate) high interest savings options based on the budgets you've set up for yourself.
- Mint tells you when you're spending too much on Amazon Daily Deals for your own good, -assuming- you've (easily!) set your budget limits.
- Mint gives you a good idea of whether your investments are paying off according to national averages as well as points you to lenders with better APR and lower fees. The "Ways To Save" tab on the website lists a solid collection of credit cards and bank accounts, organized by reward to cost; happily, Intuit always clearly labels which providers are paid sponsors vs. which are just better than your current rates.
The website (like the aforementioned PageOnce site) is the real meat and mead of the service, delegating the Mint.com Personal Finance app as a general income/expense real time monitor. Probably the best feature of the app is the Home Widget that provides at-a-glance Cash and Credit Debt totals for all of your accounts. Invaluable for dumb schmoes like myself that virtually survive on impulse buys. *Okay, I really want that, but it's outside my budget because I owe $2988 and only have $2232 as of half an hour ago.* By checking this widget any time I'm about to make a pricy mistake, I've saved myself bucket loads of pain down the line.
Mint.com gave me what I needed to dip my toe into actual credit instead of living on cash-in-hand for the decade since I moved out from my folks' place. It's easy to use, feature-rich, and never presumes you know the finer points of investment, credit, or how to tell the difference between an IRA, a CD, and a mattress full of ones.
It's free, from a reputable and established company, and genuinely useful. I'd recommend it to, well, anybody willing to read a recommendation, apparently.

02/16/11: Update! As Android development has continued apace, Mint.com has kept up in most cases. The app is still on my most-used list, the site is still excellent, and I would be emotionally damaged if I lost my now-long-standing relationship with the service. That said, the updates have been minimal and uncommon. That's both good and bad. It's good for anyone that watches their data usage (I don't) or values stability in anything with your entire life's savings at its fingertips (I do). It's bad because the app is still in Android2.1Interfaceville and hasn't kept up with a few of the design paradigms. That includes a resizable widget and a small handful of API references that would improve the user interface. So far as functionality, Mint.com remains rock solid. After reading through all that again, I realize I should mention that I'm unaffiliated with... anyone, really. I'm solely an OCD end-user that likes to read what he's written far too much.

3/5/13: Updateydate! The Mint.com app has, as of a couple of months ago, been fully updated to the delicious JellyBean interface standards. That includes three new resize-friendly widgets in addition to a modernized basic Balances widget. One new and delightful bug has also been introduced. When I first add a Mint.com widget to my (HTC Rezound, AOSP, CM9+, Apex) launch screen, the phone enters Airplane mode. I'm at a genuine loss as to why. It may be the fault of Apex Launcher as I don't recall Mint.com possessing the permissions to actually toggle Airplane mode. Nevertheless, this is the sole app to cause this exciting and initially disconcerting connectivity change. The app itself has only gained features and greater information control, so I'm certainly not going to complain.

50 of 55 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars For free, this is pretty awesome March 25, 2011

By M. Stefanko

Good app for budgeting. I haven't tried the other apps that do the same thing otu, so I can only comment on my experience with mint.com. Does a decent job of keeping track of your purchases for you. Not for everyone, if people are paranoid about their personal information elsewhere, they are going to be pretty against giving access to something like this to their finances. But it seems secure to me, i've always been comfortable. My major complaints with this service, occaisionally misses a purchase, for whatever reason, and that throws everything off. And it does take some manual work, the automatic categorization is iffy at times. As much as I'd like to consider drinks at a bar as "pharmaceutical," just can't seem to justify it when it comes to my finances.

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58 of 66 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars ok, definitely lacks functionality December 27, 2011

By anon

Amazon Verified Purchase

I love mint. However, this app leaves a lot to wish for. Trends are not available, which is very frustrating, given that on mobile devices trends are also not functional on the web browser due to flash issues. Budgets only show the current month and are difficult or impossible to customize on the app. My favorite part of the website is the graphics showing net income over the last several months, and that feature is nowhere on the app. Lastly, a general Mint criticism is that it only lets you budget for the current month. As we approach a new year, I would really appreciate being able to start making budget adjustmansts for January, since I have time off to review our financials now, but will not have time to plan when January starts.