Mint by Intuit launched in 2006 and became one of the most popular personal finance solutions on the internet, until Intuit shut it down in 2024.
Why you should consider Lunch Money
Mint, like many investor-backed personal finance apps, operated under high expectations for rapid growth and profit. That kind of pressure can lead to unsustainable business practices, a product bloated with ads and unnecessary features, and, in extreme cases like Mint, massive layoffs or a complete shutdown, leaving customers stranded.
Think of Lunch Money as the cozy neighborhood shop among a sea of big-box retailers! We've enjoyed 4 years of organic growth, with a platform shaped by customer feedback. We're proud to be entirely customer-funded, growing only through word-of-mouth, a testament to the loyalty of our users and our steadfast commitment to quality software.
It's so nice to have something like Mint but better and that isn't trying to sell me a credit card or mortgage refinancing or whatever other junk they'd added in there over the years.
Meet Lunch Money
The budgeting app Mint users keep telling us they wish they had sooner. No ads, no data selling, no corporate bloat. Just a beautifully-designed tool you can actually trust with your money.
Mint
⚡ No ads, ever
By paying for subscription, you're supporting an independent developer and ensuring you never see an ad on our platform and your data is never sold to a third-party.
Ads overshadowed the product and could be misleading.
⚡ Beautiful, intuitive design
Lunch Money has a slick and modern interface designed with the modern-day spender in mind.
Outdated and clunky design made the overall experience slow.
⚡ Awesome customer support
Get support directly from the founder of Lunch Money and existing users in our Discord community!
Personalized assistance wasn't available. Only a public support forum.
⚡ Developer friendly
Contribute to our growing developer ecosystem by creating your own utilities and tools with our developer API.
Mint did not expose a public developer API.
⚡ Continuous improvement
A public changelog is provided to maintain transparency on product updates with Lunch Money users.
The product hadn't evolved to keep up with modern spending habits.
⚡ Native multicurrency
Spend in multiple currencies? Lunch Money will give you an accurate summary of your spending in your primary currency.
Mint totaled CAD and USD transactions as if they were in the same currency.
⚡ Unlimited budgets per subscription
Want a budget with your partner, by yourself and your business? Plus a testing sandbox? Under one subscription, create unlimited budgets.
Mint supported only one budget per account.
⚡ File attachments
Upload receipts to your transactions in an instant.
Mint didn't support file attachments.
⚡ Track your crypto portfolio
Connect your crypto wallet to Lunch Money and track balances in real-time in your primary currency of choice.
Mint didn't support tracking crypto portfolios.
⚡ Bulk importing
Import transactions via CSV upload or with our developer API.
Mint did not support manual transaction importing.
⚡ Unlimited historical data
Want your bank transactions from last year? If the data is there, we can import it!
Mint only imported transactions from the last 60 to 90 days.
Join other users who migrated from Mint!
Many Lunch Money users felt the frustration of Mint and decided to sign up for Lunch Money, and they haven't looked back!
I'm really enjoying everything about Lunch Money and am happy to say I have been able to delete my Mint account to get away from them selling financial data to marketers.
Lunch Money is what Mint should have been. After just a week of using Lunch Money I eagerly deleted my Mint accounts.
Lunch Money feels like the early days of pre-acquisition Mint except you're charging money, thank goodness.
