Mint.Com Review [Free But Crappy Budget Tracking App?!]

Other financial and budget tracking applications have this feature except for Mint. Unlike applications like iMarketslive, it'd be better if the small business owners using this application have this option to ensure the growth of their money-making throughout.

According to Investor Junkie, he has found out Mint has a problem with synchronizing with the bank breaks, resulting in its inability to show accounts with modified transactions (after update). Further, the bank statements and Mint doesn't coincide most of the time.

Citizens outside the boundaries of the United States and Canada cannot access this application because Mint is intended for users within these areas.

According to PCMag, it'd be a better financial and budgeting tracking application if other citizens outside these specified areas can use and if Intuit improves some features as well. 

One reviewer wrote that albeit the decent, even impressive, features Mint has for its target users, however, they failed to satisfy them with their horrible customer support, especially when you face any trouble using the application.

This is the most obvious as Mint is created as an application to track the budgeting for the users, including the small business owners running online businesses as the bloggers do.

After filling in the information, installing Mint on devices seems easier as most reviewers highly appraised Intuit for it. Not only its seamless registration is well-applauded, but also the interface as a whole.

Mint is known for its tight security for the sake of its users. They value the trust given to them by keeping the confidential information as much as they can by means of putting that value into practice.

In that way, its target users can feel safe whenever they fill in the required piece of information, including money, on the platform.

Even the blogs with the high following, PCMag, for example, recommends this budget and finance tracking tool to their fans.

The fact it’s well-accepted to most influencers, there’s no doubt it’s a great platform for its purpose. As I mentioned earlier, every small online business owner, especially bloggers, need an application like this to keep their monthly expenses monitored.

Mint has been released for free public use for quite some time. So, obviously, we’re going to expect mixed and probably opposing views about this budget and finance tracking application Intuit developed.

With that being said, there are many walkthroughs I encountered as I went through the app reviews. The majority of them have no qualms on the lacks in comparison to Personal Capital and Quicken, which have been the leading applications today.

According to Peter Anderson of Bible Money Matters, he wrote, “I believe that Mint.Com is a fun and extremely useful supplement to what we do with that software.”

He added that it’s a great platform to have an overview of the finances, reminding us of our expenses and updating to where the money goes as regularly as possible.

Through the use of the overview tab, Intuit made it easier for the users to see the status of all accounts, including the net worth. In the case of updates, it alerts the users via email or SMS if:

• There are late fees;
• Over-budget on a certain category
• Reminders to billing
• Changes on rates
• Large purchases (regardless of what it is you spent the money for)
• Unusual spending (beyond your set budget in that month)

A reviewer on Site Jabber wrote that it’s the best finance and budget application he used so far because it allows you to monitor your accounts in one application.

In addition to that, the “no subscription required” attracted more users to use it in comparison to others without really compromising the security itself.

On the other hand, there are minor issues most of the users want Intuit to pay attention to for Mint improvements later on.

One of those includes inaccurate income and expenses and the inability to synchronize with their actual bank statements. 

Helen, one of the disappointed users, mentioned that it doesn’t keep accurate records of which bank accounts and which card the statement referred to.

“On occasion, they also display unsolicited offers for loans and supposedly ‘free’ money which are likely scams or [will] lead you to trouble,” she stated. 

With regards to the allegations of bad customer service, Elizabeth supported the claim by saying, “I was told [the customer service] cannot help me because they can only do 3 months back. I spent so much time sending screenshots of everything they ask for. But they always come back and say it is too late.”

Ruben mentioned a surprising truth upon using Mint as he revealed that this application cannot delete the date, unfortunately. “I have been assured all of my data was removed and I would no longer receive emails but [I] have continued to receive mails,” he said.

In spite of the decency of the application, there are many users, including the loyal users, have found out many bugs needed to be fixed. That applies to their horrible customer service, too.