The best money management app I’ve tested is 50% off for the first year [Video]

ZDNET’s key takeaways

• Monarch Money is one of the most feature-rich personal financial programs I’ve tested, and now it’s 50% off for the first year.
• Pros: It’s easy to set up and has powerful tools for analyzing finances and building a budget. 
• Cons: It’s one of the more expensive Mint alternatives I’ve tested.

I spent last Thanksgiving week looking at personal finance programs. Why? When Intuit decided to bury Mint, its popular and free money-tracking and budgeting program, I didn’t have a choice. I had to find another way to manage my money. 

Intuit wanted me to move my Mint data to Credit Karma, but I didn’t want to do that. While Credit Karma is good at working with your credit scores, it’s not a budgeting application. 

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With precious little time to move my years of financial data to a new service, I had to …