Since 2006, Mint.com has been helping people to manage their money better. Mint is a free online resource that tracks your spending in order to build a budget and determine where your money is going. It lets you follow your investments and even helps you do your taxes through its partnership with TaxACT. Mint’s priority is helping you obtain your financial goals, whether they are paying of your credit cards, loans, or saving for retirement. The Web 2.0 company currently boasts over 850,000 users and acclaim from top critics such as The New York Times and Time Magazine.

For those concerned about security and privacy of online financial services, Mint states:

Mint.com uses bank-level data security verified by VeriSign and TRUSTe. You’re anonymous on Mint.com; you don’t share your name, address, social security number or account numbers. You can save money — but you can’t transfer money — using Mint.com. In fact, with Mint.com’s automatic email and SMS alerts, you can increase your online security by learning of – and acting on — any suspicious activity in any of your accounts more quickly.

You can start using Mint with a simple, one-time setup that can immediately pull the balances of your balances, purchases, and stock trades. It also features secure connections to over 7,000 financial institutions. You can learn more about Mint and decide if it’s the software for you at Mint.com: Features, Why Use Mint, and About. If you’ve had success with this software, or you prefer managing your finances in another tech-savvy way, please share in the comments.