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Their pitch | Cost | Bank import? | Alerts | Mobile access | Budgets | Tracks spending | Community | Goals | Give you offers on saving bills? |
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| Mint | We download and categorize your balances and transactions automatically every day— making it effortless to see graphs of your spending, income, balances, and net worth. | Free | Yes | Yes, allows for e-mail and text alerts. | Yes, iPhone access | Yes | Yes, spending can be tracked as a whole, or within categories you can edit | No | No | Yes, Mint helps you find cheaper deals on cable, credit cards, etc. |
| Geezeo | A set of FREE online financial tools to help you reach your goals and make your finances a little less painful everyday. | Free | Yes, also allows import from files | Yes, allows you to check account balances and texts notifications. | No | Yes | Yes, spending is tracked within categories you define | Yes, there are profile pages and money confessions. Geezeo also allows you to ask questions of other members. | Yes, Geezeo lets you set up goals with visual cues. Goal is achieved when a account is within a set limit. | No |
| Rudder | Rudder is designed to minimize the effort required in managing your money. Whether you pay all your bills systematically from one checking account or have more credit cards than your wallet can fit, Rudder helps you stay on top of your finances. | Free | Yes | Yes, e-mail notifications only | No | Yes, Rudder predicts your spending based on recurring bills, but you cant' create individual budgets based on categories. | Yes, spending is tracked as one field, not within categories | No | No | Yes |
| Thrive | Thrive brings together all your financial information and advice into one easy view that not only helps you understand what you have, but what you have to do. | Free | Yes | Yes, e-mail notifications only | No | Yes, automatically creates a categorized budget for you. | Yes, you can categorize transactions within 150 categories | No | Yes, there are financial health indicators set up by Thrive, as well as savings goals you set up. Thrive also predicts your credit score | Yes |
| Wesebe | Wesabe is part money management tool, part community. We believe that one person's good financial decision can be leveraged to an entire community. Experts call this collective intelligence. | Free | Yes, also allows import from files | Yes, sends updates via Twitter. | Yes, mobile version and iPhone application | Yes, they're called "spending targets." | Yes, within categories. You can define tags within categories. | Yes, community members can rates vendors and have discussions. | No | No |
| Buxfer | Buxfer automatically downloads and categorizes expenses from your checking, savings and credit card accounts. Get spending insights and monitor activity on all your accounts at a single place. You can also split bills and send IOUs for roommates. | Basic account is free. Plus account for $2.79 a month. Pro account for $3.79 a month. | Yes, also allows import from files | Yes, e-mail and text notifications | Yes, mobile interface | Yes, you can create spending targets. | Yes, as a whole and within categories. You can create custom tags | No | No | No |
I have to disagree with Mint community, there do have one
and pretty strong at that