Minty Fresh

After a couple other folks have talked about and recommended Mint.com, I decided to give them a shot today. What else ya going to do when snowed in except pay your bills?

I used to be a Microsoft Money user for many, many years and overall was pretty happy with the way it handled things. When they started syncing with their website though, it got problematic to keep things correct. Since I then moved to Macs at home, I stopped using it and have been without budget/finance software since.

Mint was pretty unbelievably easy to set up. Within 15 minutes, I had all my accounts setup and showing their current information in Mint, including on my iPhone. (Time to finally set a passcode on that thing I guess.) Their startup experience is pretty slick and competes as world class to pretty much any I’ve ever seen. We’ll see how they hold up with repeat usage, but so far, I’m very impressed at both the UI and the integration.

~ by bryans on December 21, 2008.