Mint QuickView is a great application that acts as a portal to Mint.com’s services. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Mint.com, it is a financial service designed to keep track of your spending. It can keep track of bank and credit card accounts, investments, and even loans and other types of debt. While Mint QuickView can be incredibly useful if you are using a well-known bank, it can be troublesome if you are using a small, independent bank.
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It is important to note that Mint QuickView cannot be used if you don’t have a Mint.com account. So your best bet is to create a Mint.com account first, and familiarize yourself with the basic functionality before you decide to purchase Mint QuickView. Mint QuickView will give you access to all of your Mint.com information through a simple icon in the top menu bar. There is a great badge that will appear on the icon that will alert you to new transactions and financial alerts. In addition, it will give you quick access to your cash flow monitor. This is hands down the best service provided by Mint.com and it’s great that Mint QuickView makes it only one click away. In addition to the monitor graphs, Mint QuickView is password protected so that nobody else can see your financial information. With the use of the syncing feature. Everything you do in the application will automatically sync to Mint.com and the mobile apps if you have them installed on your phone or tablet.
One unfortunate aspect of Mint.com is the bank selection. Generally speaking most users have no problem adding their banks to Mint.com. However, if you are from a small town or are a part of a small bank, then there is a good possibility that your bank will not show up in the list of banks. If this is the case, Mint.com offers a feature where you can request that they add your bank. Whether or not you have success is up to Mint.com’s administrators. If you cannot add your bank, then Mint.com won’t be able to automatically pull your transactions and you will be forced to manually enter them.
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Overall, Mint QuickView is a fantastic window into a fantastic service. Combining the amazing features of Mint.com with the convenience of Mint QuickView will give you great control over your finances. While entering transactions manually is very inconvenient if your bank is not supported, the additional features included with Mint.com should still be quite useful. This application is a great companion to an already fantastic service.
Mint QuickView is a companion app to Mint.com that gives you an up-to-date snapshot of your finances--right on your Macintosh(R) desktop. It's easier than ever to see where your money is going and stay on top of your finances. Mountain Lion and Retina display ready. Mac App Store Editor's Choice. Mint QuickView Screenshots Mint QuickView Editor's review Mint QuickView is a companion app to Mint.com that gives you an up-to-date snapshot of your finances--right on your Macintosh desktop.
Price: $4.99
Version reviewed: 2.0.0
Supported OS: OS X 10.6 or later, 64-bit processor
Download size: 4mb
I’ve been a big fan of apps ever since I first pressed the weather button on the iPhone in 2007. After 12 years of http://www.blahblah.com/blah.htm, it was refreshing to just press a button and get the necessary information quickly, perfectly rendered and distraction free.
So I like Mint’s latest move, putting a similar user experience onto the desktop (see note 1) with an app for the Mac (link) that provides a quick overview of balances, transactions and alerts (see email announcement below).
Once installed, Mac users simply click on the Mint icon on the top and/or bottom of their desktop, and it immediately opens to a display of the latest balance-and-transaction info. Like iPhone apps, the icon also shows the number of unread alerts on the badge (see first screenshot).
Other novel features:
- A search bar along the top of the transaction search
- Optional password protection: You can choose to look at your data without logging in (after the first time)
- Timed password protection: Users can select how long they can look at the data before the password prompt is shown
I’ve used it for only a few minutes, but it looks like it will become my primary method of accessing Mint. Unless you need to run a report, it has most of what you need available immediately, shaving 30 to 40 seconds or more off the time to retrieve info from the full website version.
Bottom line: Mint is the first PFM or banking app to hit the Mac store, beating all the major financial brands to the punch. And it’s been rewarded with “featured app” status which has propelled it to the very top of the Free Apps ranking in the Mac App Store (see inset above).
Because it raises the bar in the delivery of banking info, we are bestowing it with our fourth OBR Best of the Web award for 2012 (see note 2).
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Mint QuickView app pops up after clicking on icon along the top
Transaction search from top line
Net income view
Email from Mint announcing Mac QuickView (16 July 2012)
Notes:
1. We wrote about moving online banking info to the PC desktop in our Online Banking Report in 2002 (subscription).
2. Since 1997, our Online Banking Report has periodically given OBR Best of the Web awards to companies that pioneer new online- or mobile-banking features. It is not an endorsement of the company or product, just recognition for what we believe is an important industry development. If anyone knows of other financial institutions offering a similar feature, let us know and we’ll update the post. In total, 86 companies have won the award including Mint in 2007. Recent winners are profiled in the Netbanker archives.