Best Mint Alternative
Looking for a Mint alternative that respects your privacy, runs locally, and actually tells you what to do with your money? Meet Wilson.
Why people leave Mint
Common pain points that drive users to look for alternatives.
Shut down in March 2024 by Intuit after years of neglect
Users migrated to Credit Karma, an ad-supported product focused on selling financial products
Transaction data and history were difficult or impossible to fully export
Ad-supported model meant your financial data was used for targeting
Categorization accuracy degraded significantly in final years
No longer available — this is a discontinued product
What Open Accountant does differently
Not just another dashboard. An AI agent that works for you.
Privacy-first
Your financial data never leaves your machine. No cloud accounts, no tracking, no data sales.
Local AI
Run AI models locally via Ollama. Your transactions are analyzed on your hardware, not someone else's server.
CLI-first agent
Wilson is an AI bookkeeper that works from your terminal. Import, categorize, analyze, and act — all in one tool.
Pay for what you use
Free forever for core features. Pay per skill use from $0.05, or get everything with Pro for $99/yr.
Side-by-side comparison
Mint
Wilson
Open source
Local-first / runs offline
AI-powered insights
Bank sync
Free tier
Tax preparation skills
CLI interface
Still available
Who should switch
Former Mint users who are unhappy with Credit Karma, anyone who wants a free finance tool without being shown ads or financial product recommendations, users who want more intelligence than Mint ever offered, and privacy-conscious people who do not want their financial data in a company cloud.
Ready to switch from Mint?
Install Wilson in 30 seconds. Your data stays on your machine.
$ curl -fsSL https://openaccountant.ai/install.sh | sh