Comments on: Mint.com to be Acquired by Intuit (Quicken)

By: What’s On My iPhone — Part 3 | 40Tech

What’s On My iPhone — Part 3 | 40Tech — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:28:44 +0000

[...] with Quicken is that the service, and therefore the iPhone app, may not be around for much longer. Intuit, creator of Quicken, acquired Mint.com and will be merging Quicken Online into Mint. That’s all well and good, as Mint is awesome [...]

By: chilyn

chilyn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:37:20 +0000

Hmm. My biggest concern actually comes as a (Canadian) Quicken Online user. I went to Quicken Online over Mint.com for the simple fact that Quicken (unofficially) supports Canadian banks. If the just port everything over to Mint, then that tiny but oh-so-important piece of technology may not be there anymore. I am not the only Canadian on the service. It seems we must prepare to once again be shafted by licensing and related issues -- e.g. Skype In, Hulu, Pandora, Last.FM mobile, imeem... even some YouTube content (was unable to watch the Ghostbusters release on YouTube or the recent Kanye West idiocy-apology on the new Leno show).

*sigh*

By: chilyn

chilyn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:37:20 +0000

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:30:35 +0000

Interesting interview over on Technologizer, where the founder of Mint says that Quicken Online will be a reskinned Mint: http://wp.me/pg9un-4sZ

By: chilyn

chilyn — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:27:31 +0000

Both Mint and Quicken Online are better described as Trending tools. They give you a snapshot of your accounts and money spending habits, and make suggestions on what you might do to improve upon those habits in order to reach the goals that you have set. Mint has a bit more freedom with the transactions than Quicken Online does though. It'll be interesting to see what comes up when the companies merge.

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:39:05 +0000

I've had problems with both Quicken and Mint. I was a desktop Quicken user for years, but I got sick of the “kill pills” they baked into their desktop software, which disabled the ability to connect with your bank after a couple of years. It was their way of trying to force you to upgrade. All it forced me to do was switch to a competitor's product. I switched to Moneydance, which is pretty similar, at least for what I use it for, and without the kill pill built in.

One of the several apps I looked at before switching to Moneydance was Mint, but it lacked some very basic functionality to serve as a true money management tool. At least back when I tried it out, there was no way to manually enter a transaction, so no way to know your true balance on a given day. For example, if I sent someone a check (either manually, or online via my credit union), I always enter that into Moneydance, so I know that that money isn't really available. With Mint, that will only show up after the check clears, meaning my balance could be off for several days, sometimes significantly so if I wrote several big checks. Mint also struck me as more of a planning tool, rather than a money management tool, unless something has changed since I tried it.