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Mint vs. Personal Capital
« on: December 24, 2012, 09:14:35 AM »
I've been a Mint user for a while.. I decided to try Personal Capital and it seems to be a bit buggier, particularly when it comes to adding accounts. There are some accounts of mine that PC doesn't support as well. Does anyone else have thoughts on one vs the other?

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Re: Mint vs. Personal Capital
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2013, 02:53:29 PM »

I have been having a lot of problems with Mint lately, notably with my Vanguard account.  I was wondering if anyone has any more experience with Personal Capital at this point?

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Re: Mint vs. Personal Capital
« Reply #2 on: March 07, 2013, 11:55:47 AM »
I've checked my Personal Capital account rarely on and off, but check Mint much more often. Part of that is the simple reason that we were using Mint first, so it is already set up and we've invested in editing transactions manually.
I do sometimes find Personal Captial is better at classifying some transactions automatically as opposed to Mint. IMO, where Personal Capital really shines compared to Mint is in tracking your investments and giving you different kinds of information (asset allocation, performance over time, etc). So if you like looking at different charts of your investment return, it can be kind of fun. I don't know how practical it is, but perhaps for someone with a complicated portfolio across many accounts it would be useful. I do generally find Mint better for keeping track of household expenses, etc, but it is weak on the investments side. I am sure they are targeting different niches.

If anyone is interested, I have a referral link for Personal Capital: http://refer.personalcapital.com/a/clk/476GTF
If you sign up through that link and link an account, they send you $10 via Paypal (disclaimer, I also get it if you use that link, I hope referral links are allowed). I suppose as long as start-ups are chasing users, there will be referral money to throw around.

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Re: Mint vs. Personal Capital
« Reply #3 on: March 07, 2013, 03:27:39 PM »

I have been having a lot of problems with Mint lately, notably with my Vanguard account.  I was wondering if anyone has any more experience with Personal Capital at this point?

I've been using mint for about 6 months. Yesterday my vanguard accounts had an issue, today I clicked the fix it and re-entered my password and it seems to have cleared up.

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Re: Mint vs. Personal Capital
« Reply #4 on: May 23, 2013, 07:12:25 PM »
I've been using Mint for two days. This is day two, and it's already having connectivity issues with three of the companies where I have accounts.

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Re: Mint vs. Personal Capital
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2013, 03:12:57 PM »
Can anyone recommend, or are, services (like Mint) that can handle non U.S. banks?  I have a U.S. and European bank?

 

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