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Add to SafariWhen comparing Mint vs Home Budget with Sync, the Slant community recommends Mint for most people. In the question“What are the best personal finance tracker apps for Android? ” Mint is ranked 2nd while Home Budget with Sync is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose Mint is:
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.
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Pros
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 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.
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 Backup to Dropbox automatically in regular intervals
You only have to enter your Dropbox sign-in data and backups will happen automatically.
Pro There is a free (lite) version for you to try before you buy
Free version does not have the option to synchronize across multiple devices, but you can try all the options.
Pro Easy to use, fast to enter data
You even have Android widget that helps you enter your expenses in 4 taps (start, amount, account, expense category).
Pro Multiple accounts, multiple expense categories and subcategories
You can have as many accounts you want (and you can group them - either by currency or by type: credit cards, cash/wallets/envelopes), as many expense categories you want and subcategories (only 1 level in depth).
Pro Multiple platforms
Android, iOS, MacOS, Windows, Kindle.
Pro You can set up multiple user accounts
The whole family uses the same database which synchronizes in the background.
Cons
Con Not international
Only works for US & Canada banks, and even then there are banks (like EQ Bank) that have actively blocked access to Mint.
Con Online only
It does not work offline.
Con Unsafe
With very few exceptions, Mint isn't just syncing your data over, but is using your username and password to log directly into the bank website. Banks will not reimburse for any fraud or stolen funds that may result from this, or may use Mint as an excuse to not reimburse for charges or stolen funds that occur from other causes.
Con Categories organization not flexible
Con The budgeting part has too many bugs
Con Very complicated tool
Of course, it's powerful but also very complicated. Some would prefer tools which are less robust, has less features but are a lot easier.
Con Mixing different currencies in reports
It has a problem with adding up amounts in different currencies when making reports.
Con Very few reports
Reports are very simple, but you can export data (send to e-mail) into CSV format and use some reporting tool like Power BI (which is free and very powerful) to make your own reports.
Con Windows PC version is too expensive and doesn't have that many options
$14.99 is too much for nothing to add to the smartphone version.
