Life after Mint
Mint showed you dashboards.
You wanted an answer.
Mint shut down in March 2024, and Credit Karma is not built around budgeting the way Mint was. But even when Mint worked, it mostly showed where money went after it was gone. deezbills answers the question you had the whole time: Can I spend this?
The short version
deezbills is the Mint alternative for people who wanted clarity, not charts. Instead of dashboards about last month, you get one always-current number, what is safe to spend today, and a plan that maintains itself. Money stops living rent free in your head. The honest differences: deezbills is paid rather than ad-supported, and it deliberately skips bank linking, your spending arrives by Gmail, receipt scan, statement upload, or texting Fred. If you mainly miss free automatic bank feeds, a bank-syncing app like Monarch is the closer heir. If you miss feeling on top of your money, this is the upgrade.
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Status
What you see
Budget setup
Business model
Bank linking
Someone doing the thinking
Text expenses by SMS
Gmail receipt capture
Built-in Canadian take-home pay calculator
Credit score monitoring
Native mobile apps
Price
| Feature | deezbills | Mint (as it was) |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Active, built Canada first | Shut down March 2024 |
| What you see | One safe-to-spend number | Dashboards and charts |
| Budget setup | Builds itself from your life | Manual categories and limits |
| Business model | Subscription. No ads, no data selling | Free, monetized by ads and offers |
| Bank linking | None, by design | Core to the experience |
| Someone doing the thinking | Fred logs, plans, and forecasts for you | No |
| Text expenses by SMS | Yes | No |
| Gmail receipt capture | Yes | No |
| Built-in Canadian take-home pay calculator | Yes | No |
| Credit score monitoring | No | Yes |
| Native mobile apps | Web works on any phone. iOS app on the way | iOS and Android |
| Price | $17.99 CAD/mo or $149.99 CAD/yr, 14-day trial | Free |
Mint column reflects the product as it existed before the March 2024 shutdown. deezbills pricing checked June 2026; prices may change. Mint and Credit Karma are trademarks of their owner; deezbills is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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Mint was free. Why pay for this?
Mint was free because the business model was built around offers, recommendations, and ads. That made sense for a product that helped millions of people monitor their finances at scale, and when that math stopped working for Intuit, Mint wound down.
deezbills takes a different route. You pay for it directly, $17.99 CAD a month or $$149.99 CADa year, so the incentive is simple: keep your plan current, your number honest, and your money picture private. Your finances are nobody else's business. There is a $14-day free trial to find out if it earns its keep.
Free meant the business model ran on offers. Paid means the incentive is simpler.
No ads. No data brokers. No incentive to sell you a credit card.
The upgrade
From rearview mirror to copilot
Mint's core loop was retrospective: connect accounts, wait for transactions, look at charts about the past. Useful, but it never answered the live question: can I afford this right now? deezbills tracks your bills, goals, debt, and upcoming obligations and does that math continuously. The result is one number, safe to spend, that updates every time money moves. You can stop checking your bank balance and hoping. And because the plan also carries your goals and what is coming, spending today never costs you tomorrow without you noticing. That is the whole idea: spend today, build tomorrow.
And where Mint gave you graphs, deezbills gives you Fred, a financial copilot who works from your real numbers, not generic advice. Text him an expense from the grocery line. Ask whether the trip fits. Every payday, let him show you where the money should go: bills, goals, debt, and what is left to spend. He suggests, you approve, and nothing moves without you. Here is the kind of answer Mint never had:
A Fred moment
An honest fit check
Choose a bank-syncing app if
- Automatic bank feeds are non-negotiable for you, and apps like Monarch sync accounts the way Mint did
- You mainly want credit score monitoring, which Credit Karma already does for free
- You want investment holdings tracking today (automated investment and loan tracking is on the deezbills roadmap)
- You want a native Android app right now rather than the web app
Choose deezbills if
- You want the answer, what is safe to spend today, instead of dashboards about last month
- You never loved handing your bank credentials to an aggregator, and like that no-linking works with any bank
- You are Canadian and want CAD pricing plus real federal and provincial tax math
- You want Fred doing the tracking and the thinking, by text, receipt photo, Gmail, or quick add
Common questions
What happened to Mint?
Intuit shut Mint down on March 23, 2024 and pointed its users at Credit Karma, another Intuit product. Credit Karma has since picked up some of Mint’s features, like spending monitoring, but it is not built around budgeting the way Mint was, and many former Mint users found the budgets they relied on missing. That is why so many are still looking for a true replacement.
Is deezbills free like Mint was?
No, and that is the honest trade. Mint was free because its business model ran on offers and ads. deezbills is a paid subscription, $17.99 CAD a month or $149.99 CAD a year with a 14-day free trial. No ads, no data brokers, no selling your information. You are the customer, not the product.
Does deezbills sync with my bank like Mint did?
No. deezbills is built without bank linking, so your credentials never leave your bank. Spending comes in by connecting your Gmail inbox, snapping receipts, uploading statements, texting Fred, or quick add. If fully automatic bank feeds are the one thing you cannot live without, a bank-syncing app like Monarch will fit you better, and we would rather tell you that here.
Is deezbills good for Canadians?
It is built Canada first, which Mint never was. CAD pricing, a built-in income tax calculator covering federal and provincial taxes, CPP, and EI for every province and territory, and payday planning on your real take-home pay. The United States is fully supported as well.
What does deezbills do differently from Mint?
Fred, a financial copilot who acts on your money instead of charting it. He logs the expense you text him, shows you where each paycheck should go every payday, adjusts a budget when life changes, and models a what-if before you commit. Mint showed you where money went. Fred helps you decide what happens next, and you approve every change.