Being the type of guy that burns through money I jumped at the opportunity to review Mint. Mint is a finance tracking and budgeting platform much like Microsoft Money or Quicken. But the main difference is it is Online – if you don’t have a problem adding your banking information to Mint.com you can have access to a complete financial overview from any web browser.
Mint has been in Beta for about 3 months now and is showing somewhere in the neighborhood of 60,000 early adopters throwing in over 2 billion dollars of their hard earned accounts into Mint’s databases. 2 fricking billion dollars? That’s a lot of moolah…
If you are a college student living in a dorm, or sharing a flat with your friends, or do lots of borrowing and lending or simply not blessed with an amazing memory Billmonk offers something you may find useful. It is a free application that helps you keep track of things you borrow and lend. While mainly designed for tracking money transactions among friends, you can also track other things like books, movies, CDs and etc. As Billmonk states, Track Money and Track Stuff.
The way you can track moeny transactions is really well thought through and straightforward. Check out simple illustration of the service below: