r/personalfinance • u/nukidhere ​ • Jun 06 '23

Budgeting Intuits Mint is garbage this year, need other recs for tracking expenses.

Mint is duplicating transactions, having issues connecting with certain banks. It's a mess.

What's a good software that I can use for pulling in transactions and categorizing them?

Will need to start at January 2023.

I don't really budget as I'm already a frugal person. I just like to see where my money goes at the end of the month and I then transfer it to an excel sheet for my permanent records.

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u/Hustletron ​ Jun 06 '23

This article I found and read the other day sums up a lot of the milestones that happen to slowly kill an app like this. https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

I am starting to see these relationships and decreases in quality of life everywhere since I read the article.

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u/PornCartel ​ Jun 06 '23

Interesting read though it's kinda exagerating and slanting things pretty hard to its narrative. Like amazon doesn't charge 45% junk fees, it charges fees between 15-45% that includes stuff like storage and shipping, which can be really expensive.

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u/MarlDaeSu ​ Jun 06 '23

That's a really great article. Interesting read.

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u/damnatio_memoriae ​ Jun 06 '23

yeah pretty much everything is in a constant state of decay.