Mint is a all encompassing website to help you track your financial data. The site has been fairly well received by most people.

On the surface this site is a pretty good idea. Unlike programs like Quicken which need to be told to pull data (at least on Mac, I can’t speak for the Windows version) Mint automatically updates daily. Financial data is scanned, correlated and the site automatically sends out custom alerts via email or to a mobile phone. Adding in the ability to view your transactions via Twitter would be nice too, although perhaps a bit on the clunky side.

Since Mint was first introduced in beta it has become a lot better. One of the biggest failing was it’s inability to access some banking sites that it claimed it was able to do so. That problem seems to have been alleviated, although it’s still very slow to do so some times. Resetting up my account this time it was able to eventually add a credit card and my stock account. Things it was not able to when I tried the beta.

Mint.com is a good idea looking for users. I’m a bit leery of giving such a site my account information to my financial institutions. In this day of hackers and virus one site to encompass all of your financial data may be a bad idea. This is one site that will have to be very sure of security.

Overall though I think this site is a great idea. It’s really helped me keep track of things and is less clunky then Quicken. I’ll probably continue to use it up until I feel my information is not safe.

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