BillGuard vs Mint

While it may not use the lollipop design guidelines, it still has a clean, simple, elegant interface.

Many finance applications have this feature but BillGuard was designed to be first an applications that protects you against fraud and second finance tracker. BillGuard's data breach alert will send an alert if the application believes that a card's information has been hacked. Users can also help to report fraudulent charges to improve the service. If a gray charge is encountered, BillGuard will contact the merchant directly.

BillGuard has a focus on privacy and security. All access to bank accounts is read only, so money can't be moved from within the application.

BillGuard is free with no advertisements. It is unclear how BillGuard makes money.

Like a few other finance tracking applications out there BillGuard makes it convenient to make a budget and track spending by pulling in all bank accounts and investments into one convenient application.

With a simple right swipe to approve or a left swipe to flag a transaction for review (a la Mailbox).

If you need to plan your budget or check on a fraudulent transaction BillGuard has you covered with a web application.

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.

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.

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.