Mint, a fast growing financial site that won the top award at the 2007 TechCrunch40 conference, is a great way to track your personal finances. It’s been described as an online Quicken, but it’s a lot more than that, too, since user data can be aggregated and shared in interesting ways. It’s not listed in the App store directory yet, but you can grab it here.
But how can you watch every penny during those few moments each day you aren’t sitting in front of your computer watching the stock markets tank? That’s where Mint for the iPhone comes in, which just launched. Check balances on your checking, savings, credit card and loan accounts. Track expenses and budgets. Watch the dismal performance of your 401(k), brokerage and IRA accounts, etc.
All of which may be a little much. But Mint will be very helpful in some situations, like alerting you asap if a large transaction is made on your credit card, or the ex husband just cleaned out your bank account.
Why can’t I find this in the App Store?
It seems to be showing up in the App Store now… you should try searching for it again.
I can’t find the app, is there a link to it?
yeah – I can’t find it either. Usually there’s a link that people reference – when it can’t be found just yet. Doesn’t look like Michael included it – or he maybe didn’t get it.
Definitely can’t find it there yet.
Can’t find the app either.
apologies. added a link in first para. not sure why it isn’t in the directory yet.
So is this an example of ignoring the embargo?
Look at the last word in the first paragraph
Hey what if you lose your phone? Does your identity gets stolen along with it? Kind of insecure in that sense.
no it’s really cool…look at your profile page on mint. you can deactivate your iphone access remotely.
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I love how the dates slide down when you’re scrolling through the specific account activity! Well executed.
That’s just standard iphone UI. If you look at the contact list, the alphabet headers do the same.
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BTW, they need to release this for android.
No matter how much you pimp Mint, it’s 2nd rate compared to a real trade application.
The company that releases the iphone/android version of Ameritrade commander first is going to win and Mint isn’t it.
I love Mint online and I’ve been waiting for this. Zing!
sad … nothing like that for our part of the world.
http://www.confiz.com
Awesome site and app.
Awesome! Love their web site and this iphone App makes it even more powerful! The App is well built and neatly organized! May be its not a common use case but I wish they allow multiple accounts. My wife manages the budget and the monthly expenses and I manage the brokerage accounts. She did not want the trading accounts to show up in the monthly expense management account, so I use another account.
One day Mint will realise there’s a world outside the US. One day.
Mike
No matter how much you pimp up this crappy nonsite it ain’t going to save them from he deadpool. The site sucks and just got slammed in the WSJ.
Should we take your photo and affix it next to the “what’s really wrong with TechCrunch PR?” This ain’t journalism this ain’t a review. This us just bs. And btw how many stupid f-ing repetitive nonposts are you going to have about twitter, myspace or facebook. That’s what’s wrong with TechCrunch. Focus on that first, would ya?
10,000 posts and most of them about Twitter. Jeez. Give it a rest.
if by “slammed in the WSJ” you mean “reviewed favorably on Dec 16,” then yes, Mint “just got slammed”
The two articles that the WSJ “slams” Mint.com
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http://biz.yaho...37_id.html?.v=1
And for a quick summary, Mint.com doesn’t get slammed.
Oh hey, maybe consider not reading TechCrunch then? And try getting facts straight in the future? Or just kill yourself? Thanks
Been waiting forever for Mint to release their service to the UK. Getting bored now.
Love Mint. Use it daily. It is actually in the App store now but says “This application not compatible with this iPhone.” I have a first-gen but it’s hardly a Model-T!
are you using 2.2? i had to upgrade my iphone to the latest version and it works fine
The Mint.com iPhone app is now searchable in the App Store.
A few other comments:
For users without iPhones, they can obtain their balances via SMS text-message. Since mid-November, users have been able to text ‘bal’ to shortcode MYMINT (696468) for on-the-go access to their financial information.
The application also provides exceptional data security. If users lend or lose their iPhone, they can disable iPhone access to their Mint.com account at any time from the website – so no data would be visible to an unauthorized user.
Aaron Patzer, Founder & CEO, Mint.com
The problem I have with mint is that it doesn’t work with one of the major banks in my area. Of course its one of the banks I use.
@cole i: The only major bank Mint.com did not used to work with was Citizens…that was resolved about 3 weeks ago.
Mike – you meant to write the “fast declining” financial site – Compete is reporting more than 11% decline in traffic in November.
Also, Mint suffers from the Youtube problem: it will take years, if any, to turn profitable. Very few people link on the suggestions of savings after learning its crap – but it’s not Mint’s fault , as people have many other ways discovering cheaper or better consumer products/services.
Mint raised more than $20MM, burning it fast, and whoever will buy them will need to finance loses for a long, long period before making a very, very small profit.
So the cost of “FREE” in Mint’s case is costing someone a lot of moeny…
Mint should get in to the credit scoring business with a new scoring model.
Mint should sell their users financial information. The privacy policy of Mint explicitly states that users data may be “shared”.
Probably important to note the specifics thought, according to the privacy policy:
“We do not share any personally identifiable information about our customers with these third party service providers, and these service providers do not collect such information on our behalf. Our third party service providers are required to comply fully with this Privacy and Security Policy.”