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 …