Free Personal Finance Software, Online Money Management, Budget Planner and Financial Planning | Mint.com

Free Personal Finance Software, Online Money Management, Budget Planner and Financial Planning | Mint.com. It seems that every day that passes finds the FutureLawyer using his iPod Touch for more functions, and the Palm Centro for fewer. I recently discovered Mint.Com, which is an online finance software application that syncs with the iPod Touch, through a free application. Using WiFi, and connections to my banks, I now have online detailed information about my finances, accessible from the Touch while connected to WiFi. Amazing, and free. I tried a competitor, Wesabe, but was unable to get it to link to my accounts. Mint worked fine, first time. Now, my mobile online banking is on my iPod Touch, and the Centro is just used for cell phone calls, quick and dirty email, and scoring baseball games. I am loving this thing more every day. Now, if Verizon and Apple can get their act together, I might finally become a "former" Palm user.

Comments

[dan]

What are you thoughts as to security of Mint.com and aggregating all of your financial information in one place?

[rgeorges]

I have no problems with the security, since the site uses bank level security protocols. You can't transfer money at the site. If you do any online banking, you rely on the same security. In the words of the site authors:
"Mint.com uses bank-level data security verified by Verisign and TrustE. You’re anonymous on Mint.com; you don’t share your name, address, social security number or account numbers. You can save money — but you can’t transfer money — using Mint.com. In fact, with Mint.com’s automatic email and SMS alerts, you can increase your online security by learning of - and acting on — any suspicious activity in any of your accounts more quickly."
Rick