Slant community chat on Discourse| 10 Recommended Products | Recommendations | Price | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|---|
| #1 Mint· · · | 2 | 1 | – | Apr 20, 2017 |
| #2 GNUCash· · · | 1 | 0 | – | Jun 17, 2016 |
| #3 Personal Capital· · · | 2 | 0 | – | Feb 22, 2017 |
| #4 Mint Bills· · · | 2 | 0 | – | Aug 2, 2017 |
| #5 Goodbudget· · · | 1 | 0 | – | Jun 17, 2016 |
| #6 Ledgerist· · · | 2 | 0 | – | Apr 20, 2017 |
Pro All accounts in one place
Mint can handle banking accounts, saving accounts, credit cards, etc. It consolidates all your accounts together so you do not need to put work into following multiple accounts.
Pro Alerts
Mint can be set to alert you to various events such as upcoming bills, or low balances on any accounts. It can be set to alert you from the app, through email or by text message. In addition you can sign up to recieve monthly emails about your money and ways to improve your budget.
Pro Organizes budget into categories
Mint splits your spending into different categories, such as gas or fast food, so you can see where you're spending too much money or how much you need to budget for.
Con Not International
Only works for US & Canada banks.
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Pro Extensive list of usable accounts
Checks auto bill paying feature is comparable with a very large list of accounts. It can even manage mortgages and utilities.
Pro Secure
Check uses bank level security as well as other security features such as PIN-locking and data wiping. They are also monitored by outside companies such as Norton and TRUSTe.
Con Only for US and Canada
Is only for US and Canada, after signup it asks for the users zip code, and there is no way to skip it.
Pro Organize transactions
Ledgerist can sort and organize your transactions by naming them or adding notes. You can then use this to find out where and how much of your money is being spent.
Pro Multiple Accounts
Ledgerist allows you to manage multiple accounts at the same time. This way you can keep track of your checking account and credit card and any other accounts within the same app.
Con No Automation
Ledgerist won't automatically update your transactions. You must manually update it each time you make a transaction.
Con No Account Integration
Ledgerist does not allow you to import accounts. This means you will not have any data from before you started updating the app.
Pro You can import spreadsheets from Excel
Even though you're unable to pay bills or make deposits/withdrawals this way, you can get a good look at what your finances are looking like even if you haven't used the program before.
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Pro Cross platform
Moneydance is a cross platform app so for those that use multiple operating systems it will be much easier to import and export information to each OS running the same financial application.
Pro Good bulk editing of transactions
Simple find and replace feature.
Con Import tags all transactions on import under the same default category
Upon import of financial info, all transactions will be set to the same default category meaning the user will have to go back and change the category by hand to the correct one.
Pro Budgets
Set up budgets and MoneyWiz will automatically monitor transactions and assign them to the proper budgets. Envelope budgeting is also available.
Pro Usage reports
Tons of reports will give you a perspective on your spendings and earnings, that you never had before! MoneyWiz also allows you to build custom reports based on what you want to know about your money.
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