mintable

Mintable

Automate your personal finances – for free, with no ads, and no data collection.

Mintable helps you:

• Keep track of your account balances
• Aggregate transactions from all your banking institutions, including checking accounts, savings accounts, and credit cards
• Analyze and budget your spending using a spreadsheet and formulas

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Quickstart

Requires node >= v11.0.0.

1. Sign up for Plaid’s Free Plan.

2. Install Mintable:

   npm install -g mintable
   mintable setup
   

3. Update your account balances/transactions:

   mintable fetch
   

Note: If you’re already a version 1.x.x user, you can migrate your existing configuration to version 2.x.x.

Documentation

Check out the full documentation in the ./docs folder.

FAQs

WTF is ‘Mintable’?!

min·ta·ble: noun.

1. An open-source tool to automate your personal finances – for free, with no ads, and no data collection. Derived from mint (the wildly popular personal finance app from Intuit) + table (a spreadsheet).

Do I have to use Plaid?

• Nope. You can import transactions from a CSV bank statement exclusively on your local machine. We also have templates to get you started.

Do I have to use Google Sheets?

• Nope. You can export your account balances & transactions to a CSV file exclusively on your local machine.

Do I have to manually run this every time I want new transactions in my spreadsheet?

• Nope. You can automate it for free using BitBar, cron, or GitHub Actions.

How do I use it with banks outside the US?

• Fork & edit the country codes here. Default support is for US banks.

How do I use it with Windows?

• Windows is not natively supported but you can try this.

It’s not working!

• File an issue

Alternatives

• Money in Excel: Recently announced partnership between Microsoft/Plaid. Requires a Microsoft 365 subscription ($70+/year).
• Mint: Owned by Intuit (TurboTax). Apps for iOS/Android/Web.
• build-your-own-mint: Some assembly required. More flexible.