<ul><li>Intuit, the parent company of Mint, shut down the service in March 2024, leading to a search for a replacement.</li><li>Six budgeting apps were tested, all of which offers budgeting tools and import all of your account data into one place;</li><li>Some of the shortlisted apps are free and show ads to stay in business;</li><li>Plaid is used as the underlying network to pull in financial data used to connect banks with third-party apps;</li><li>Plaid works with over 12,000 financial institutions across US, Canada and Europe;</li><li>Plaid uses encryption and has a policy of not selling/renting customer data to other companies;</li><li>Mint ended in March 2024 without any reasons communicated by parent company Intuit. Users were directed to move to Credit Karma for personal finance management.</li><li>Five budgeting apps were available to users to test out their preferred choice.</li><li>While Credit Karma was not a replacement for Mint, it still offered decent options for users in managing their finances.</li><li>Rocket Money is another free financial app that was not tested in this article</li></ul>

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