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Tools & Reviews
Mint is gone and every app now wants your bank login. Honest reviews of the budgeting apps, net worth trackers and courses worth your time, and which one fits where you actually are.
Wealth Potion builds its own net worth tracker and budgeting tool, so read these with that in mind. The comparisons are written to help you choose, including when the right choice is something simpler, or something that is not ours.
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Start HereBest Net Worth Tracker Without a Bank Link: Why Privacy-First Tracking Actually MattersTrack your net worth without handing your bank data to surveillance capitalism. Here's why privacy-first tracking is the smarter play.
What You'll Find Here
Budgeting apps
What to use now that Mint is gone, and how the main budgeting apps compare.
Net worth trackers
Tracking your net worth with and without a bank link, and what Empower and the Stifel Wealth Tracker actually do.
Planning and learning
Whether ProjectionLab is worth it, how the best finance courses compare, and a finance app built like a game.
All Tools & Reviews Articles
- July 1, 2026Best Mint Alternative for 2026: Where to Go Now That Mint is DeadMint is dead. Here's what to use instead — honest reviews of Monarch, YNAB, and privacy-first alternatives that won't sell your data.
- June 28, 2026The Best Gamified Personal Finance App: Why Wealth Potion Is DifferentWealth Potion is the only gamified personal finance app built around how you actually think — levels, skill trees, and real net worth milestones.
- June 3, 2026Best Personal Finance Course Online: What's Actually Worth Your MoneyAn honest comparison of the best personal finance courses online — Dave Ramsey, Ramit Sethi, Graham Stephan, Minority Mindset, and Wealth Potion Academy — ranked by the worldview each one installs.
- April 10, 2026What Is the Stifel Wealth Tracker? (And Who It's Actually For)Stifel Wealth Tracker is free, and US residents can sign up without being a Stifel client. What it does, how to log in, and how it compares with Empower.
- April 9, 2026ProjectionLab Review: Is It Worth It? (And When to Use Something Simpler)Is ProjectionLab worth it? An honest review: what it costs, what it does best, who it's built for, how it compares with Boldin, and when something simpler fits.
- April 8, 2026Empower Net Worth Tracker Review: Is It Worth Using?An honest review of Empower's free net worth tracker — what it actually does well, where the tradeoffs are, and whether it's worth connecting your accounts.
- April 7, 2026Best Budgeting Apps 2025 (The Honest Breakdown)Mint is dead. Here's an honest, no-affiliate-fluff comparison of the best budgeting apps in 2025 — including which ones are worth your time and which ones to skip.