The Best Mint Alternative
What Mint promised. What CashControl delivers.
Mint shut down in early 2024, leaving millions of users looking for a replacement. If you're one of them, CashControl offers what Mint promised but never fully delivered: a complete personal finance tracker that doesn't serve ads, doesn't sell your data, and gives you real control over how you organize your financial life.
What Mint Did Well
- ✓ Free, accessible finance tracking that brought budgeting to millions
- ✓ Automatic bank sync made getting started effortless
- ✓ Simple budget tracking and spending categorization
- ✓ Credit score monitoring and financial product recommendations
What CashControl Does Better
- ★ No ads, ever — your attention is not the product
- ★ No data selling — your financial data is never used for marketing
- ★ Manual-first with optional bank sync — you choose how to track
- ★ Multi-category expenses for accurate budget tracking
- ★ Financial forecasting that Mint never offered
- ★ Loan tracking with payment history and progress
- ★ CSV import with custom mapping from any bank worldwide
- ★ EU-hosted with tenant-isolated databases for real privacy
- ★ Still available and actively developed — not getting shut down
Privacy & Data
CashControl
EU-hosted, tenant-isolated databases. Bank sync available but optional. No ads. No data selling. No third-party trackers. GDPR compliant. Your data is yours — export or delete anytime.
Mint (discontinued)
Mint was ad-supported, used data for financial product recommendations, and was ultimately shut down with users migrated to Credit Karma.
Who Should Choose What?
You might miss Mint if you...
- • Relied entirely on automatic bank sync with zero manual input
- • Used credit score monitoring and financial product recommendations
- • Wanted a completely free, no-commitment experience
CashControl is your Mint replacement if you...
- • Want what Mint promised: comprehensive finance tracking
- • Want it without the ads and data selling that came with Mint
- • Are ready for more control — manual entry, custom categories, forecasting
- • Want an app that won't get shut down (actively developed, sustainable business model)
- • Care about privacy and data ownership
Feature Comparison
| Feature | CashControl | Mint (discontinued) |
| Still available | ✓ | Shut down 2024 |
| Ad-free experience | ✓ | Had ads |
| Manual expense entry | ✓ | Limited |
| Custom categories | ✓ | Limited |
| Multi-category expenses | ✓ | ✗ |
| Financial forecasting | ✓ | ✗ |
| Goals & piggybanks | ✓ | Basic goals |
| Loan tracking | ✓ | ✗ |
| Recurring transactions | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSV import | ✓ | ✗ |
| Multi-user access | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI-powered reports | ✓ | ✗ |
| Bill management | ✓ | ✓ |
| Data privacy | EU-hosted, no data selling | Data used for ads |
| Free plan | ✓ | Was free (ad-supported) |
FAQ
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