Mint alternative

Mint is gone, and the replacement was not one.

Intuit closed Mint in March 2024 and pointed users at Credit Karma, which tracks net worth but does not do the budgeting people actually used Mint for. Two years on, the gap is still open — and outside the US it always was.

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In short

Mint shut down on 23 March 2024 and Intuit directed users to Credit Karma, which offers account syncing and net worth tracking but not Mint's budgeting and subscription management. For former Mint users the practical replacements split into two groups: paid bank-linked apps that recreate the automation, and free apps that get transactions in another way. NetWorth+ is in the second group — a free Android app that tracks net worth, budgets, credit cards, loans and shared expenses without connecting to a bank, reading bank alert SMS on the device instead. That approach works in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, the wider GCC and India, where bank alerts are universal; it is a poor fit in the US, where they are not.

Mint closed

23 March 2024

Successor

Credit Karma, without budgeting

This app

Free, Android, no bank login

Best fit

GCC and India

What happened

Why the migration never quite worked

Mint was free, comprehensive and ad-supported. Replacing it turned out to require choosing which of those three to give up.

Credit Karma, the destination Intuit chose, syncs accounts and shows a net worth figure. What it does not do is budgeting by category or subscription management, which for a large share of Mint's users was the entire reason to open it. The transition moved the account and left the use case behind.

The wider market answered with subscriptions. Most of the credible Mint-replacement apps now cost somewhere between fifty and a hundred and fifty dollars a year, because bank aggregation has a per-user cost that someone has to pay. Free-and-comprehensive was always subsidised by advertising, and fewer companies are willing to make that trade now.

So the practical question is which compromise you prefer

  • Pay a subscription and keep full automation through a bank connection
  • Stay free and accept manual entry or statement import
  • Stay free and get transactions from the alerts your bank already sends, if you are in a market where that works

Feature by feature

What Mint did, and where it lands here

Mint featureCredit KarmaNetWorth+
Automatic transaction importYes, via bank syncVia bank SMS alerts, on device
Budgets by categoryNoYes
Net worth trackingYesYes
Bills and subscription trackingNoYes, as scheduled payments
Credit card balances and due datesPartlyYes, per card with cycles
Loan and EMI schedulesNoYes
Multi-currencyNoYes, rate kept per entry
Shared expenses between peopleNoYes, counted in net worth
Credit score monitoringYesNo
AdvertisementsYes, offers are the modelNone
CostFreeFree

Credit Karma's feature set as described publicly in August 2026. Neither NetWorth+ nor its publisher is affiliated with Intuit, Mint or Credit Karma.

Be clear about fit

When this is not your Mint replacement

You are in the US or Europe

The SMS route depends on banks sending transaction alerts by message, which is standard in the Gulf and India and uncommon in North America and most of Europe. Without it you would be entering transactions manually, and there are better-suited apps for that.

You want a credit score

Mint showed one and Credit Karma is built around it. NetWorth+ does not, has no relationship with any credit bureau, and does not intend to.

You are on iPhone

Android only at present. The planned iOS version will not include SMS capture, because iOS gives no app access to the message inbox.

The lesson worth taking from Mint

Years of financial history vanished because it lived somewhere that could be switched off. Whatever you move to, check that you can export everything, in a format you can read, without asking anyone. NetWorth+ exports to CSV from inside the app at any time, and the account and its data can be deleted from inside the app too. That is the minimum bar, and it is worth applying to every candidate.

Where this applies

Across the Gulf, and beyond it

Most of the people this page is written for are in the Gulf or in India, where the SMS approach works and where Mint never operated properly in the first place. If you moved from the US to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh or Doha, you are in the group for whom neither Mint nor its replacements ever quite fitted.

NetWorth+ also covers India, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, the United Kingdom and the United States. Currency handling is not limited to the list above — three-decimal dinars and zero-decimal currencies are treated correctly rather than being forced into two decimal places.

Questions

Good to know

When exactly did Mint shut down?
23 March 2024. Intuit announced the closure in November 2023 and directed users to Credit Karma, which it also owns.
Is Credit Karma a real replacement for Mint?
Only partly. It syncs accounts and shows net worth, but does not offer Mint's category budgeting or subscription tracking, which is why the search for alternatives continued long after the migration.
What is the closest free Mint alternative?
It depends on where you are. In the US, free-and-automatic is hard to find because bank aggregation costs money; most credible options are paid. In the GCC and India, an app that reads bank alert SMS can be free and still feel automatic, which is the approach NetWorth+ takes.
Can I import my old Mint data?
Not directly. If you exported a CSV before the shutdown, the CSV import can bring transactions in. If you did not, that data is gone — Mint's export window closed with the service.
Does NetWorth+ show a credit score?
No, and it does not connect to any credit bureau. It tracks what you own and owe, not how a lender rates you.
Does it cost anything?
No. There is no subscription, no paid tier, no advertisements and no advertising SDKs.

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