Dr Bling Bling
What Mint's closure taught us about money apps
Mint was free, popular and owned by a large company, and it closed anyway. Most articles about replacing it skip the lesson.
What happened
Intuit closed Mint on March 23, 2024 and pointed its users to Credit Karma, which kept some features. Budgets and custom categories were among the things that did not make the move. People who had years of carefully sorted spending had to export it or lose it.
The closure was not a scandal. Free apps have to earn money somehow, and when the numbers stop working, the service stops.
Three things to ask of any replacement
- How does it earn money? If you cannot tell, you are probably what is being sold.
- Where does your history live? If it lives on their server, it lasts as long as they do.
- Can you get it out again?
If you want Mint back
If you want the same thing, a dashboard with everything connected, look at Monarch, Copilot or YNAB. They are the apps most Mint users moved to. All three charge around $100 a year, which is one honest answer to the first question. We have compared Monarch, Copilot and YNAB with this app.
If you only used Mint to see where the money went
A lot of people did only that. If so, you do not need a live connection at all. Dr Bling Bling reads your bank statements on your iPhone and shows the same picture, by month and by category. Your ledger is on your phone and not on our server, because we do not have one holding anybody's money. If we vanished tomorrow, the app on your phone would go on working.
It is a different deal from Mint, and worth being clear about. Nothing updates by itself, there is no credit score, and there is no net worth. You add a statement when you have one.
See what your own statement says
Free to download, and every way of adding a statement is free. No bank login, no account, no subscription.
Questions people ask
When did Mint shut down?
March 23, 2024. Intuit moved users towards Credit Karma.
What is the closest thing to Mint now?
For a connected dashboard, the apps most often named are Monarch, Copilot and YNAB. Dr Bling Bling is not close to Mint in that sense. It covers the where-did-it-go part only.
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Written by the people who make Dr Bling Bling. Checked on 1 November 2026. Sources: NerdWallet on Mint's closure.