Although I would probably find mint.com very useful, I won't use it while doing so still means violating your bank's TOS [0].<p>Mint.com requires your online banking credentials. Most banks will state in their TOS that sharing these credentials with 3rd parties is a violation and absolves them of liability should your account be compromised (via any means).<p>[0] <a href="http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/the-banks-take-a-bite-out-of-mint-com" rel="nofollow">http://www.moneysense.ca/spend/the-banks-take-a-bite-out-of-...</a>
I use a plain text file with columns separated by tabulations. First column is my earning, and my expenses that are predictable (like phone, loan...). second column is my expenses on a daily basis. A simple awk command and I can compute a projection of the money that will be left on my account at the end of the month. Each month I use a new file. The beauty is that I can print the result of my command and put it in my status bar, next to the temp of my proc. It's a metric value like another after all.
I'm writing my own. I used Mint for past 3 years or so but it's just not working out because it keeps creating duplicate copy of accounts, the expenses/income per month isn't right and so on. I've a prototype that I'm using personally for past two months. Still need to add few more features. After it's ready I would probably do Show HN.
I use mint, personalcapital, and a spreadsheet. You may want to checkout the financial independence subreddit for a deeper dive on the topics of personal finance and budgets: <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence</a>
<a href="https://mint.com" rel="nofollow">https://mint.com</a><p><a href="https://futureadvisor.com" rel="nofollow">https://futureadvisor.com</a><p><a href="https://simple.com" rel="nofollow">https://simple.com</a><p>Simple for banking. FutureAdvisor for automated retirement investments. Mint to aggregate various accounts into one spot.
I keep track of my finances using my Android phone. There's Financisto ( <a href="http://financisto.com/" rel="nofollow">http://financisto.com/</a> ), an awesome and extensible app which suits my need extremely well.
If you want a tool that is freely available and runs on your PC, try something like: <a href="http://gnucash.org/" rel="nofollow">http://gnucash.org/</a>