Budget – Well don’t talk about it. It’s pain but its good if you’d like to bring your expenses under control. I went looking for tools that will help me and make life much easier. I was able to find so many online free personal finance tools, that will help you save money and bring your finances on track.
Before I started using the tools, we didn’t have any budget and we realized, to save money we need to see where our money flows. Block the unwanted expenses could end up having a huge impact in savings per month.
Here’s list of some of the tools I tried and used. Currently I’m using Quicken Online and I totally love it. They recently changed the layout and I’m still getting adjusted to it. But, I kinda liked the previous layout.
Free Online Personal Finance Tools
- Quicken Online
- Yoodle Money Center
- Mint.com
- Wesabe.com
- Gee Zeo.com
- Buxfer
- Microsoft Money
- Quicken Desktop
Quicken Online
I have been using this since Quicken made it free. I’m totally satisfied with the interface and options it provides for report generation, finance goals, budget, transaction display. You can include your Car loan, mortgage, 401(k) accounts, brokerage accounts, ..
Yoodle Money Center
I was using this previously to Quicken Online. It provided me all the features provided by Quicken Online, but had to spend so much time to get things setup and setting budget was really difficult. It will all you to specific budget for each category, but at the end it doesn’t display the today. You will have to manually add all the values.
Mint.com
This was the first online tool I started using and i twas during initial stages of development and didn’t have all the bank I had account with.
Wesabe and GeeZeo
Each had its own advantage but nothing close to quicken with respect to ease of use the features.But, I used both the tools for a while.
Microsoft Money
Well, it had so many features, but to use it to updates from certain banks, I have to pay service fees per month or do manual update by importing the data. Give me a break! I’m using personal finance tools to save money!
Quicken Online
I have heard good things about Quicken Standalone application, but haven’t had a chance to play with that. If anyone is using it, write a comment to this article. Let us know about your experience.
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