

“In my mind, it’s been in maintenance mode the last eight years,” says Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint who accepted Intuit’s offer, found himself tasked with improving Quicken, and then left the company in 2012. 'We had a strong fourth quarter capping off a dynamic fiscal 2020. (Nasdaq: INTU) announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full fiscal year 2020, which ended July 31. But more than a decade after the firm behind TurboTax and QuickBooks (and, until 2016, Quicken) bought Mint for $170 million, neatly taking a competitor off the map, this once-groundbreaking app might as well be streaked with cobwebs. Full Year Performance Led By 13 Percent Consumer Group Revenue Growth, Strongest TurboTax Customer Growth in Four Years Intuit Inc. It’s as if Mint, with 13 million-plus registered users, were a resource-constrained startup instead of a property of Intuit, the Microsoft of personal finance.

You still can’t merge Mint and TurboTax accounts, so every spring I endure a laborious import/export ordeal.Viewing and exporting records within a set date range- essential to tax prep-requires hand-editing a Mint URL.It still miscategorizes too many transactions, like when Mint sees a ski area and a gas station with “Liberty” in their names and decides a lift ticket was a $58 tank of gas.Many transactions still show up without being cleansed from the all-caps raw feed of a credit-card statement: “SLING TV – ENGLEWOOD, CO,” not “Sling TV.”.
