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Mint | Geezeo | Rudder | Thrive | Wesebe | Buxfer |
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| Their pitch | 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. | A set of FREE online financial tools to help you reach your goals and make your finances a little less painful everyday. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. |
| Cost | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | Basic account is free. Plus account for $2.79 a month. Pro account for $3.79 a month. |
| Bank import? | Yes | Yes, also allows import from files | Yes | Yes | Yes, also allows import from files | Yes, also allows import from files |
| Alerts | Yes, allows for e-mail and text alerts. | Yes, allows you to check account balances and texts notifications. | Yes, e-mail notifications only | Yes, e-mail notifications only | Yes, sends updates via Twitter. | Yes, e-mail and text notifications |
| Mobile access | Yes, iPhone access | No | No | No | Yes, mobile version and iPhone application | Yes, mobile interface |
| Budgets | Yes | Yes | Yes, Rudder predicts your spending based on recurring bills, but you cant' create individual budgets based on categories. | Yes, automatically creates a categorized budget for you. | Yes, they're called "spending targets." | Yes, you can create spending targets. |
| Tracks spending | Yes, spending can be tracked as a whole, or within categories you can edit | Yes, spending is tracked within categories you define | Yes, spending is tracked as one field, not within categories | Yes, you can categorize transactions within 150 categories | Yes, within categories. You can define tags within categories. | Yes, as a whole and within categories. You can create custom tags |
| Community | No | Yes, there are profile pages and money confessions. Geezeo also allows you to ask questions of other members. | No | No | Yes, community members can rates vendors and have discussions. | No |
| Goals | No | Yes, Geezeo lets you set up goals with visual cues. Goal is achieved when a account is within a set limit. | 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 | No | No |
| Give you offers on saving bills? | Yes, Mint helps you find cheaper deals on cable, credit cards, etc. | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
I have to disagree with Mint community, there do have one
and pretty strong at that