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A Better Budget Calculator Than Mint or Intuit

Mint shut down in January 2024, and Intuit's replacement tools still require an account and still don't show you the math. Reise Tools gives you 50/30/20 budgeting with actual dollar breakdowns, surplus or deficit per category, and every formula — no account, no data sync required.

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50/30/20 Budget Calculator

Build a 50/30/20 budget from your income and see exactly where every dollar should go

Open calculator ·Free · No signup · Shows every formula
01 / Feature comparison
FeatureMint / Intuit Budget ToolsReise Tools
50/30/20 framework with dollar amounts
Surplus / deficit per category
ShowMath — allocation formula shown
No account or signup required
Works after Mint shutdown

Mint closed Jan 2024

Automatic bank account sync

Mint's key strength — real transaction data

Historical spending trend charts
What-if income/category modeling
Free with no data sharing
02 / What Mint / Intuit Budget Tools does well

To be honest: this is a widely-used tool for good reasons. Here's what it does well.

  • Mint had best-in-class automatic transaction categorization from bank sync
  • Intuit's ecosystem connects budgeting to TurboTax and QuickBooks for tax prep
  • Mint's historical spending charts gave users years of trend data in one view
  • Credit score monitoring was bundled with budgeting for free
03 / Where Reise Tools goes deeper
  • Account required — Mint always required linking bank accounts and creating a profile. Reise runs entirely in your browser with zero data collection.
  • No framework math shown — Mint categorized your spending but never showed the 50/30/20 formula or explained whether your category ratios were healthy.
  • Surplus/deficit blind spots — Mint told you what you spent, but not the dollar gap between your target allocation and actual spending in each bucket.
  • Mint is gone — the service shut down in January 2024. Users who relied on it now need a replacement that works immediately without re-linking accounts.
  • No 'what-if' modeling — Reise lets you adjust income or category targets and instantly see the ripple effect on every line, with the formula recalculated live.
The ShowMath™ difference

Every Reise calculator has a ShowMath panel — expand it and you see the exact formula with your actual numbers substituted in. Not just a result. Not a black box. The full derivation, step by step.

After Mint shut down, millions of users were left without a budgeting tool. Reise's 50/30/20 Budget Calculator isn't a bank-sync replacement — it's the calculator Mint should have had underneath: a transparent framework tool that shows you the formula, calculates the right dollar amount for every category, and tells you exactly how far off you are from the target. No account. No waiting. Just the math.

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