Comments on: Online Finance Review II: Mint (v. Yodlee and a little Wesabe)

By: j520

j520 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:24:00 +0000

Mint.com uses Yodlee as the back-end. The account aggregations is provided by Yodlee. So when you give all your user names and passwords to Mint.com it is actually being stored and kept with Yodlee…

Wesabe is hands down the best with security and protecting your data. Another benefit of Wesabe is they offer multiple ways to get your data into Wesabe.

Ive left Quicken after over 7 years and went to Wesabe =)

By: felix

felix — Fri, 09 May 2008 19:09:16 +0000

Anonymous, to be honest I haven’t been following Mint’s progress, but if it is just adding investments for me it will still not rival Yodlee. I love yodlee because I can aggregate so many, many different things in one place and not worry about it. Everything else is just gravy - so far Mint may have some nice gravy, just not enough meat!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:19:52 +0000

Great article! One of the defects (with Mint) was that they do not provide the ability to track investments. Looks like Mint now has a Beta version that will allow users to do just that! Has anyone tried that out?

Will Mint (with the Investments tracking option) be better than Yodlee?

TIA

By: Miles

Miles — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:19:39 +0000

I’ve tried our both Mint and Yodlee. I guess it all depends on how much analysis you’re looking for. I really only want it to track monthly spending from bank accounts and credit cards in order to balance a budget. The thing I didn’t like about Yodlee is when charges are catagorized incorrectly and you manually change it the change isn’t permanently made to effect all past and future charges of the same type/vendor. Mint allows you to select how that charge is catagorized and all ones like it and one correction changes the lot. Please tell me if I’m missing something here. The Mint graphics are great. I do have some concerns about Mint’s security since it’s a new comer. These may be an overreaction but there is something to be said for the tried and tested. I closed my Mint account but may go back in time as they add features and gain credibility with me on security.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 16:10:52 +0000

mint uses Yodlee according to Yodlee site

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By: felix

felix — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:50:58 +0000

Thomas, huh! I didn’t know that they were hooking into Zillow, that’s cool. I suspect you’re probably right and they’ll probably start hooking into other services like that. Very cool!

I agree, the UI isn’t the best. They could use a helping hand on that front, but it’s good enough and thus far, for my needs, no one comes close on functionality. :)

By: thomas

thomas — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:20:14 +0000

I have been using Yodlee for a month or so now, and I am very impressed at its functionality vs. Quicken (which I used several years ago). If mint were to catch up with Yodlee’s functionality, I might have to consider switching. Yodlee’s user interface leaves much to be desired. One great thing about Yodlee is you can put in your house address, which connects to Zillow.com and keeps your estimated house value up-to-date. You can even link it to your mortgage account and see how much equity you have! My hope is that they will eventually connect to Kelly Blue Book (kbb.com) or Nada.com and allow me to link up my car loan (liability) with the value of my car (asset) … that figures into one’s net worth calculations. Of course, I can create a manual account and put in my car’s estimated value, but it would be nice to have it automatically update (with an occasional user intervention, such as mileage, etc).

By: felix

felix — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:39:13 +0000

Mike, signing up’s pretty painless - you don’t give out any account information to get your account. Once you are in you search for your accounts and sign up one at a time - so you can pick a relatively less sensitive account to play around with. At least that’s how I ended up there.

It isn’t necessarily the most friendly site, for sure, but it’s pretty great, nevertheless. :) Give it a shot!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:54:47 +0000

Just been hunting around looking for comparison reviews like this. I just hit Yodlee’s site, and unless I’m missing it, they have one big fault: no site tour or overview. I don’t want to sign up for anything unless I have a clue what’s about to happen!