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Good things about Quicken:
Supports my credit card
Better iPhone app
Good things about Mint:
Better web app
Can they please merge these lists for me?
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@Darklighter: i bet the support for CC will stay...
and uncle murphy told me that they'll use Quickens web app and Mint's iPhone app.
I actually have an account with both because Mint doesn't have my credit union (which has 75% of my savings) and Quicken doesn't have my 401k (which has 90% of my retirement funds). I hope that I can finally have one solution with all of my financial information aggregated.
@Harry Manback: I really like Mint but my primary bank is barely supported, making it pretty useless for me as well. It's a great concept but they're going to have to expand their contacts if they want to make it useful to more people
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@Harry Manback: Have you checked Mint lately? You can always request your credit union be added if it's not listed.
@2 replies by: I'm sure we've all tried that. I filled out the form a couple times and then sent an e-mail support. They send you a form e-mail that says support for a bank is based on the number of people that use it, and so small banks aren't support unless a sufficient amount of people request it. I check about once a month, but no go.
@iamlost26: This. I check every month or so, have sent in multiple requests, etc. It's a small credit union in Vermont, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm one of the only ones requesting it. I was surprised, however, that Quicken didn't have a way to access my MassMutual 401k. They didn't even respond to my request.
As more items are integrated with Mint, it makes me wonder how Intuit will make money.
I mean, other than an increase in sales of Turbo Tax. (I'm guessing their deductions piece would only work electronically with Turbo Tax.)
Mint email offer to sign up for a \"premier\" account subscription in 3..2..
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@zandar:
I pay for online submission of my taxes. If doing it with quicken and my mint accound makes it easier I would certainly do that.
I think it is a great idea to be able to use what you tag in mint and automatically do your deductions.
I have both as well. I hope that doesn't turn into a nightmare of double transactions.
I prefer Quicken's checkbook-like feature that let's me track upcoming withdrawals, but Mint has a much smoother interface and better transaction recognition.
Let's hope it's a best-of-both-worlds scenario.
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On a vaguely related note, when I started up MS Money yesterday, I got an ad offering a meager discount on Quicken. I'll go back to hand tallied entries in a checkbook register before I give Intuit another dime though.
I hope that they build a check register (well, I guess that would be better termed a \"transaction register\") into Mint. Quicken Online has it, Mint doesn't, and I'm really not clear on why I've continued using Mint after I found that out.
Possibly because I'm a sucker for pretty colors. Yep.
Quicken could also teach Mint a thing or two about auto-renaming, though I haven't used QO enough to know whether it's any good at that.
@Steel_Pelican: I don't want to do it just yet, but I think I'll set a reminder to delete the living hell out of my QO account by March 1.
I had an account with both too. One for investment accounts (Mint) and one for bank accounts (Quicken). Mint didn't support my local bank, and Quicken did. Quicken didn't support any of my P2P lending accounts, but Mint did. Personally, I think Quicken's look is better overall, except for their lack of \"cents\" (get it?) in the overview and the fact that they don't have a refresh all button. Mint is getting really annoying though, especially with the 500 alerts I get each day telling me Lending Club took out $0.01 for lending fees.
@courtarro: Actually, I'm talking about the alerts on the main page, which you can't turn off. Sure, I can just annoy it, but my real alerts get buried within them and it's a little disconcerting to see that I have 95 alerts whenever I log in.
I just hope they don't start charging for use of Mint.
That would be UNCOOL, especially since they have a ton of my financial information and suddenly charging for use would be tantamount to holding the information hostage.
All of the information Mint sucks in from your banks is available to you through other means, i.e. from your bank's website or the statements that they mail you ever month. They wouldn't be holding anything hostage other than perhaps the benefit you derive from using their service, which you could say of any paid service.
@Cant_stop_the_rock: Better do that now, though - Quicken has never supported any decent export options, and I wouldn't be surprised if the export options in Mint were to magically disappear at some point in the future. Quicken's primary business model seems to be to hold your data hostage, then for each version to stop working after a few years, requiring an upgrade to keep using Quicken's online features.
Awesome. I'm wondering if they will start charging for it, because I don't imagine that Mint is making a profit with their ads.
I wouldn't mind paying a couple of dollars a month, it's such a great tool it'd be worth it. Nothing has ever worked as well for me as Mint does.
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I miss Microsoft Money
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@all4jcvette:
Yeah, me too. Been trying to use Moneydance and some Yodlee Moneycenter, but Microsoft Money is still champs.
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@BinaryTB: I'm a money user too. So sad it's going away. Mint.com is good for a good snapshot of your finances though.
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I'll rather keep track of everything in a spreadsheet then to give anyone my account information.
I hope Intuit dies a slow horrible death. They've basically said to all Mac users \"Go f*ck yourself, we're never porting anything but the basics.\"
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@RogueWarrior: I have a Mac. I love using Quicken Online. I never heard them say they want me fuck myself.
I've had a very, very positive experience with Quicken Online. I'm actually disappointed that they are merging me into Mint.com because it means I'm going to have to learn a new interface.
Having said that, I'm optimistic about this entire mash up of companies. I've heard nothing but amazing things about Mint, and had such good experiences with Quicken Online, that I believe they are going to be able to deliver a solid product.
As someone stated a while back in another posting about this - the biggest downside is the lack of competition. This could hurt progress and innovation.
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@bornonbord: Mint is not hard to learn...it just has a few quirks that you might get annoyed by since you were using Quicken.
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Mint would be amazing IF you could adjust your \"month\" to begin when you ACTUALLY GET PAID. My husband and I get paid once a month (close to the end of the month) and we basically pay all of our bills the last week of the month. So, our month begins on the 21st, for example and extends through the 21st of the following month. Mint doesn't begin to calculate our \"monthly\" expenses until the first and this function CANNOT BE CHANGED. The graphs, spending habits, etc. were useless to us because it would calculate half of what we would spend at the end of the month and then reset our allowances on the 1st of the month.
People have complained about this on the mint.com message boards to no avail.
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Please, Mint, Please let me import my 5 years of transaction data from my old copy of Quicken now.
I have been using both systems and I actually preferred Quicken, especially since they made a few recent changes and offer more information. Oh well, I guess it will not affect me too badly because I keep both up to date...but I really REALLY liked Quicken....I hope Mint gets better.
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I didn't really like mint. I prefer sites like [www.clearcheckbook.com] or [www.buxfer.com]
It'll be interesting to see what happens to that site. Intuit seemed to eff up quicken online pretty well, so we'll see if they do the same to mint.
@BrandonOBrien: I use buxfer and quicken online.