The 12 best apps for managing your finances

Sweep is another well-reviewed budgeting app with features like customizable savings goals.

Sweep is lesser known that Mint, but its budgeting app is well reviewed in the App Store with a four-and-a-half-star average rating. It can monitor all of your bank accounts and credit cards and help you save money in specific goal "buckets," like vacation or tuition payment fund.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

Penny is a chat-based budgeting coach that alerts you about important transactions.

Penny is a friendly chat-based finance coach that connects to your accounts and sends you helpful alerts about your account activity. It can also give you advice about how to manage your funds.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

Simple is web-only bank with a beautifully designed mobile app and smart budgeting features.

Tech Insider's Rafi Letzter loves it. Check out his full review.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store, Google Play

Square Cash is the best way to quickly send people money.

You connect your bank account and then Square Cash lets you instantly send money to your friends.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store, Google Play

Truebill collects all of your reoccurring subscriptions and lets you manage them in one dashboard.

Truebill connects to your bank accounts and pulls in all of your reoccurring charges to show you a bird's eye view of the subscriptions you pay for.

Price: Free

Available on: Web

Paribus monitors what you buy online and gets you money back when prices drop after you purchase.

If an item you buy online drops in price shortly after you buy it, many retailers will refund you the difference. Paribus monitors your purchases for you and gets the money back in your account for you.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store

Credit Karma gives you free credit scores and tells you how you can improve your score.

It's an invaluable tool for monitoring your credit.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store, Google Play

Robinhood is an easy way to trade stocks with no fees.

Robinhood allows you to do free stock trading (that's right, no commission fee) from your phone. And it's incredibly simple to use.

Price: Free (the stocks cost money, of course)

Available on: iOS, Android

Acorns invests your spare change for you.

Acorns makes saving money easy. It takes the spare change from your daily purchases by rounding up to the nearest dollar and investing the difference into five diversified portfolios. You can also invest lump sums of your choosing at any time.

Its investing formula is backed by Nobel Prize winning economist and the father of Modern Portfolio Theory, Dr. Harry Markowitz.

Price: $1 per month for accounts with a balance under $5,000, 0.25% per year for accounts over $5,000

Available on: iOS, Android, web

TurboTax is the best way to file your taxes yourself.

If you file your own taxes, you should use TurboTax. It's the simplest tool to use and walks you through all of the necessary steps in plain English. You can take pictures of your tax forms to submit and there's a free customer support line to virtually chat with a real person any time of day.

Don't believe us? The Wirecutter used every tax filing app and agreed that TurboTax was the best.

Price: Pricing on website

Available on: Web, App Store, Google Play

The IRS's app lets you check your refund status and pay your taxes easily.

The Internal Revenue Service has its own app for checking your refund status, making a payment, and information on how to file your own taxes.

Price: Free

Available on: App Store, Google Play

The 12 best apps for managing your finances

Mint is a go-to budgeting app.

Sweep is another well-reviewed budgeting app with features like customizable savings goals.

Penny is a chat-based budgeting coach that alerts you about important transactions.

Simple is web-only bank with a beautifully designed mobile app and smart budgeting features.

Square Cash is the best way to quickly send people money.

Truebill collects all of your reoccurring subscriptions and lets you manage them in one dashboard.

Paribus monitors what you buy online and gets you money back when prices drop after you purchase.

Credit Karma gives you free credit scores and tells you how you can improve your score.

Robinhood is an easy way to trade stocks with no fees.

Acorns invests your spare change for you.

TurboTax is the best way to file your taxes yourself.

The IRS's app lets you check your refund status and pay your taxes easily.

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