I'm looking to take control of our finances and am looking into using software or a web app to help. Any recommendations?

 

You can use mint.com for free and it does a pretty good job.

If you want to track your business stuff as well, I would recommend Quicken Home & Business.

 

Mint. I dont use it to budget though.. just to track spending.

 

When I was on a tighter budget I used mint, and it was really quite good. You can get to be about as detailed as you want.

 

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Very informative post. I appreciate your input and look forward to having more conversations with you on this matter in the future.

 

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Mint is good for aggregating accounts and always knowing what is out there. As for budgeting, I use a spreadsheet I designed which allows me to see a year's worth of income and expenses and project any future shortfalls. It's actually a pretty good system -- and if I could find a way to turn it into an app it would likely be very successful

 

Quicken takes care of this.

 

I just created an Excel sheet. I list my monthly net income, and from there subtract the reoccuring bills. Then I break down the rest into catagories like gas, food, going out, shit for the house and things like that. After a few months of tracking my usual spending, I created a budget for each item. I would input my receipts daily and once I near my budget, I slow down the spending. It helped me save a lot. But I know my spending pretty well now and dont use anything.