Budgeting Apps & Methods
Mint
- Best for: keeping tabs on your overall financial health
- Integrations: different bank accounts, loan accounts, and credit cards, and shows them all within a single, streamlined interface
- In app alerts based on customized notification settings
Digit
- Savings app that analyzes your spending, income, and upcoming bills to estimate how much money you can afford to save every day or every week
- Subscription based ($3/month)
- Annual savings bonus of 1% / 0.25% return every three months
Acorns
- Safe way to get into savings and investing
- College students (waives management fees for up 4 years with a .edu email address)
- Hands-off investors
- People who struggle to save
