Switching from Mint
Bring your Mint budget over in five minutes
Export your saved Mint export, choose it in PathForward, and your categories become this month's plan — each with what it has actually cost you. No retyping, and nothing to pay for.
What comes with you
- Your categories, as budget lines in the groups that fit them.
- What each costs — the monthly average over the last three whole months in the file, rounded to $5, yours to change.
- Your merchants, as filing rules: anything the file saw under a category files itself from now on.
- Your transactions, with their categories, if you want them in the inbox (part of Pro).
What doesn't
- Mint's own goals, reports and account balances — PathForward builds its own from your plan and, with Pro, your bank.
- History older than the file you export.
- Transfers between your accounts and income rows: they are not spending, so they never become lines.
1. Export from Mint
- Mint closed in 2024, but the CSV it let you download (Transactions → Export) still works here.
- Find the file — it has Date, Description, Original Description, Amount, Transaction Type and Category columns.
- If you moved to Credit Karma instead, bring a bank statement CSV; the budget builds from your categories once you file a month or two.
Mint wrote every amount as positive with a debit/credit column; PathForward reads the column to tell money out from money in.
2. Then, in PathForward
- Start free — no card, and the free plan is enough for this.
- Open Settings and, under Profile, tap Bring my budget over. Choose the file.
- Every spending category appears with what it cost a month, already sorted into groups. Change an amount or a group, untick anything you don't want, then tap Build my budget.
- Your month is planned. Every merchant the file saw becomes a filing rule, so when your bank's transactions arrive they come suggested.
Questions people ask
- Does it cost anything?
- No. Building your budget from the export works on the free plan. Pro ($9.99 a month) adds bank sync, the transaction inbox and the monthly report.
- Is the file uploaded anywhere?
- The file is read in your browser. Only the lines you build — and, on Pro, the transactions you choose to import — are saved to your account.
- What if a category lands in the wrong group?
- Change the group on the spot before you build, or drag the line between groups on the Budget page afterwards.
- What's different about PathForward?
- The plan is built around your paychecks. Home shows the day your account would dip below zero and whether you're good until the next paycheck, before it happens — and the monthly report says what to change next month.
Five minutes, then a plan that follows your paychecks
Start free, bring your Mint export over, and see this month planned the way you actually spend.