Mint tracks your spending, provides financial alerts, and includes free credit monitoring from TransUnion. Both paid upgrades are targeting mobile users, but will minimize ads via the web as well. For mobile users, Mint has $0.99 upgrade that eliminates ads, and on iOS you get extra features with Mint Premium at $4.99 a month. Mint’s services are free, but at least one feature – bill negotiation – has an extra fee, and you’ll have to endure a steady diet of financial offers. Part of Intuit’s stable of financial products, which includes TurboTax and QuickBooks, Mint has been around since 2006. Among those tools is the one that makes this one of the best budgeting apps we tested: The ability to create multiple budgets to view your spending across different categories. Intuit Mint provides a robust set of automated tools for tracking your personal finances. Read the rest of our Simplifi by Quicken review. Unlike its well-known personal finance sibling Quicken, Simplifi began life as a web-first service, and its graphical look and feel reflect that history. The service handles account tracking across banks, investments, and credit cards and payment services, and combines this with spending and savings plans, bill alerts, and trends analysis of your spending, income, savings, and more. Whereas Quicken is a full-scale personal financial package with desktop applications and online/mobile support, Simplifi pares things back to basics, and it does so with a fresh, visually appealing interface and logical workflow to tracking accounts, setting savings goals, and creating budgets.

Now owned by Aquiline Capital Partners, Simplifi comes from the same stewards of long-time stalwart Quicken. This cloud-based service makes it easy to track your money and budget wherever you are.

Simplifi by Quicken is, as its name implies, a simplified approach to personal finance. Lacks support for complex annual budgets or tax planning

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