Mint Is No More. Try One of These 6 Budgeting Apps Instead (2024)

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What happened to Mint the budgeting app? ›

The Mint budgeting app officially shut down on March 23, 2024, and users can no longer access their data on the app. Intuit®, which owns Mint and other personal finance platforms like QuickBooks® and TurboTax®, suggested users migrate to Credit Karma, which it also owns. But that's far from the only option.

In less than two weeks, the budgeting app Mint — which once had 3.6 million active users, including me — will shut down forever. According to its parent company, Intuit, Mint wasn't making enough money, so Intuit began the app's closure in January.

Mint, the popular budgeting app, shut down on March 23, 2024. In its initial press release, Intuit — the parent company of Mint — invited Mint users to transition to another Intuit service, Credit Karma.

Mint recently announced: “Reimagining Mint as part of Intuit Credit Karma will expand our capabilities,” which is them trying to put a positive spin on the fact that they're shutting down their budgeting app capabilities—and Mint budgeters won't be able to access their budgeting accounts or continue budgeting starting ...

Over the years, Mint obviously became less of a priority for Intuit and presumably wasn't making them money the way their other products were. So they decided to “reimagine” Mint by, frankly, getting rid of it. There's no fault in that as Intuit has morphed into something different than it was in 2009.

Mint, a budgeting app acquired by Intuit in 2009, is shutting down as of Saturday, March 23, 2024. Mint shows users an overview of their financial well-being by displaying the current status of multiple linked accounts on one screen.

I've now been using Monarch Money for seven months. In a word, it's great. It does everything I need and makes managing my money much easier. Monarch is better than Mint ever was.

Originally, the final date was going to be January 1st, 2024, but now, Mint will officially disappear on March 23rd, 2024.

Is Mint ending? ›

Mint, one of the earliest and most popular personal finance apps, is shutting down, and its owner, Intuit, is encouraging users to switch to Credit Karma, its platform that offers free credit scores and helps users track their money.

The reason for closing down the Mint app is the supposed consolidation of Intuit's personal finance products and to prioritize their focus on Credit Karma, which has more features and functions than Mint. However, some key features that made Mint what it is are said not to be available in Credit Karma, like budgeting.

The original personal finance dashboard, Mint.com's relatively meager ARPU of $2-$3 proved “they had the wrong business model”, said ex-Mint.com product manager and Monarch Money CEO Val Agostino—giving the product away for free and monetizing off referrals .

Intuit Inc. announced that it will shut down Mint on March 23, 2024. The company's decision to discontinue the popular budgeting app could leave millions of users scrambling to find a replacement. Here's what the news means for consumers and what to consider when choosing a new budgeting service.

It took longer than expected, but T-Mobile has completed its purchase of prepaid provider Mint Mobile. After gaining approval from the Federal Communications Commission last week, T-Mobile announced on Wednesday that it has closed the acquisition of Mint's parent company, Ka'ena Corporation.