Mint.com is Closed: Here are the best alternatives.
We cover the best tools and apps to help you manage your money.
What’s better, to save $100 or to make $100? The hands-down winner is to save $100. Why? Because if you make $100, you have to pay Uncle Sam a big chunk of it. However, reducing your expenses by a Benji — as my daughter likes to call the C-Note — is more akin to getting…
There are a lot of tools out there to track your investments. One of my favorites is Empower. It offers a free online financial dashboard that automatically tracks your investments and your spending. Today I have another option for you–a free spreadsheet that tracks your investments and tells you when it’s time to rebalance your…
About Dollar Bird DollarBird is a budgeting application, but with a twist. It uses a calendar system to track your spending. This is very different from other budgeting apps that track spending by category. The basic concept of DollarBird is daily cash management. That can make it the perfect solution if you’ve tried using budget…
Today’s budgeting tools make managing your money easy. While some are free, others have so much more to offer if you’re willing to pay a small fee. Quicken and Mint are great examples. Let’s look at which one is best for your budget. Today, there are many choices for personal finance software. Quicken and Mint…
Quicken is a popular personal finance software, but it’s designed strictly for Windows users. If you use Mac, Quicken is not an option. But that’s where Banktivity comes into the picture. Banktivity is a personal finance software app designed specifically for Mac devices. The company claims customers save $500 a year and 40 hours of…
As your parents get older, they might appreciate a bit of help with managing their finances. Of course, many seniors are content to look after their finances by themselves and are more than capable of doing so. In some cases, however, aging parents need assistance paying bills and monitoring investments. If a parent does ask…
You can’t make financial decisions if you don’t know how much money you have to work with. This is a big dilemma for many of us according to a study from OnePoll research that shows half of Americans don’t know how much money is in their bank account. Even worse, of the 2,000 Americans interviewed,…
Personal Capital (now called Empower) first introduced what is by far the best financial dashboard I’ve used. It’s a free online tool that tracks everything from your bank accounts to your investments. It comes with great graphs and charts that show your asset allocation, investing costs, and cash flow. One of its best features, however,…
Acorns saves your money consistently, and completely out of sight then lets you invest that savings in a diversified portfolio of stocks and bonds. If you’ve never been able to save and invest in the past, this app can get you moving in the right direction. Acorns has been steadily upgrading the app to present…