Spreadsheet-Weary Budgeters Decry Flawed Mint Alternatives
- Former Mint users describe shoddy experience with alternatives
- Market fragmentation, data wars have left customers in a bind
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau addressed the issue in October, unveiling an open-banking rule that gives customers power over their data, for free.
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The wizards of financial technology have pledged to improve people’s lives with snazzy apps that do a better job of managing their fiscal affairs, at a lower cost, than anything offered by big banks.
But they haven’t been able to replicate Mint, the free-and-easy budgeting tool that shuttered in March.