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I've been using Mint daily for 12 years.

The #1 thing that I need from Mint is 100% reliable integrations so it can automatically pull all my data, which it no longer provides. I have been talking to their support for about a year asking to fix an integration with US's largest mortgage servicer.

The #2 thing is reliable inference of transaction categories. That's also starting to wither. Categories are all over the place.

Everything else I really don't care about. Even if there's on interface and just a big "Export to CSV" button I'd be thrilled about it.

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> The #1 thing that I need from Mint is 100% reliable integrations

So Mint does it's own integrations instead of using something like Yodlee or Plaid. For me, Mint has been way more rock solid than sites that use the others. All of them have gotten way worse over the years as banks have cranked up security and generally been hostile to APIs like this.

Personally, I'm looking to move my financial services in order to get better integrations (specifically faster ACH transfers and integrations like Mint). There's no reason a secure solution (that doesn't involve me giving Mint my credentials and allows read-only access) can't be widely adopted.

I 100% agree with this, as an active Mint user. The integrations lately are terrible. I have to reconnect most accounts almost weekly, and they usually still fail after that. It's incredibly frustrating.

I use Mint purely as an API to coalesce and export the transaction history. I then use a Google Sheets workbook to view my balance and expenditures (by Mint-assigned category) over time — allowing for coarse insights, prioritization, and adjustment.

The Mint-assigned categories are terrible, and I regularly have to review and re-assign categorizations.

It you’re just using it to get data into Google Sheets then you should checkout https://Tillerhq.com

Do you have blank templates of your Sheets workbooks that you could share?

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