Mint
Price: Free
Compatible with: iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Android
Overview:
Mint is one of the top budgeting apps on the market and it’s not hard to see why. The app syncs with bank accounts for real-time updates on spending and income, and also connects to credit cards, bills, and investments, so all your financial information is in one place. Users can even keep track of their credit scores, and the app provides tips on how to keep it up or improve it.
Budgeting is simple to set up and use. When you create an account and sync your financial information, Mint provides an analysis of your spending habits based on a few months of history. This is essential to develop new and improved spending and saving habits, since you see where your money has been going, where you can cut down, or where you can transfer money elsewhere. There are an extensive amount of categories and subcategories to classify all of your transactions – if Mint doesn’t recognize the category a transaction belongs to, it counts it as unclassified and flags it for you to manually classify it. While there is no “gambling” category, there is one for “amusement,” or you can create your own. Once you categorize a transaction, Mint will remember it, allowing you to set up and maintain a budget.
The traditional Mint is read-only – it only receives information regarding your account in real-time, so no one can move money using the app, including you, Mint, or anyone who gains access. And even though no one can do anything except see your balance, the app still offers excellent security. There is an optional passcode or touch ID, the app asks for your passcode whenever you leave and come back to it, and it logs you out after ten idle minutes.
Mint also features a great alert system, and will send you an email or mobile alert for spending, overdrafts, ATM fees, unusual spending, and bill due dates. So when you’re gambling online and hit or go over your budget limit, you’ll know immediately. And with Mint, you can allocate your income to your budgets, so you can put whatever you need into paying your rent, utilities, or amusement budget. So put those winnings at the online casino into your gambling budget, and give yourself a little more wiggle room to keep playing.
Bottom line:
Mint is always free, easy to use, nice to look at, and has a number of features that will help you keep track of your gambling budget along with the rest of your money. With instant push and email notifications, top-of-the-line security, and a no-nonsense approach to budgeting your money, Mint will make sure you can keep gambling at your favorite online casinos comfortably without risk of losing your rent money.
