Intuit recently announced that its popular budgeting app, Mint, will be merging with Credit Karma, a personal finance app, in early 2024—but unfortunately for Mint users, the monthly budget functionality will no longer be available. As a result, a lot of people are left scrambling to find a Mint alternative for managing their money.

Change is difficult. It’s time-consuming, it’s disruptive, and there’s a good chance that learning an entirely new system for managing money isn’t necessarily the skill you felt like honing in the new year. You could be using this time to learn something cool, like how to knit kitten mittens! But, no, here you are researching budgeting tools and money management alternatives. It’s infinitely less exciting, and I say that as someone who’s really into spending money. (Which is why managing it is important.)

When being forced to make a change, it’s easy to feel like you just want what you already had.…