It’s also part of Mint.com’s commitment to making money management better fit your lifestyle. As Aaron Forth, general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group says,

“As tablet use rises, more mobile-savvy people will be looking for ways to manage their lives across multiple devices, so we developed our Android tablet app to bring simple money management tools to their finger tips.”

How the App Delivers

The new app for Android tablets offers popular Mint.com features, letting you:

• Organize all your accounts in one place. One tap delivers a complete overview of your finances.
• Interact with your data. Pinch, tap and flick through your graphs to drill into spending by category, merchant or budget.
• Get personalized updates. New streaming delivery of account alerts, bill reminders and personalized advice helps you make smart financial decisions.
• Sync automatically across platforms. Changes made on your Android table automatically sync on all devices.
• Track cash spending on the go: The app’s geo-location capabilities help you track cash spending. That means no spending goes unaccounted for in your budgets.
• Review finances without an internet connection. The app stores data from the latest download, allowing easier viewing of finances, anytime, anywhere.
• Stay safe. Your Mint app is password protected, keeping your account information safe and secure, even if you share or lose your tablet.

The Mint.com app for Android tablet joins a growing selection of Mint.com mobile applications for iPhone, iPad and Android. It also melds the bank-level security of 128-bit encryption with the easy-to-use convenience of Mint.com. Download the free app at the Android Marketplace.

To learn more about the Mint.com app for Android tablet, click here.

“People write in all the time with inspiring stories about how and why they use Mint.com, and it helped us to envision this new product,” said Aaron Forth, general manager of Intuit’s Personal Finance Group. “For couples reviewing their combined savings at home on the couch, or for parents teaching their kids about money, our new iPad app lets them tap, pinch and flick to make the experience more collaborative and social, remove another level of intimidation, and even make it fun.”

How the App Delivers:

The new iPad app re-envisions Mint.com users’ favorite features, letting you:

• Organize all your accounts in one place. One tap delivers a complete overview of your finances.
• Interact with your data. Pinch, tap and flick through your graphs to drill into spending by category, merchant or budget.
• Get personalized updates. New streaming delivery of account alerts, bill reminders and personalized advice helps you make smart financial decisions.
• Sync automatically across platforms. Changes to one platform – on the Web, smart phone or iPad – automatically sync on all devices.
• Track cash spending on the go: The app’s geo-location capabilities help you cleanly and immediately categorize cash spending. That means no spending goes unaccounted for in your budgets.
• Review finances without an internet connection. Storing data from the latest download allows easier viewing of finances, anytime, anywhere.

Mint’s app for iPad joins a growing list of apps we’ve designed specifically for mobile devices, including iPhone and Android. It even features a unique Overview screen, enabling you to track multiple pieces of financial information on a single screen. And it provides you with all the security features you’ve come to trust with Mint, such as application-level passcodes, read-only access, and the ability to disable mobile account access from the web.

Things are moving more quickly these days. Our app for iPad can help you get up to speed and stay on top of your finances.

To learn more about Mint.com’s new app for iPad, click here.

Mint is the go-to mobile app for tracking activity across multiple bank and credit accounts, but until recently, there wasn’t an easy way to enter cash or check transactions on your Android phone. That’s all changed with the addition of a new feature that allows you to manually enter in cash or pending transactions, so you can get the most accurate view of your spending. Using an intuitive entry-form, you can now record cash you’ve spent or received, checks you’ve written, and other transactions that haven’t cleared your bank yet.

Manual cash entries flow through to both budgets and trends, so using this tool regularly can help you narrow down your spending habits. Here’s how to get the most out of this new feature.

Cash Transactions

Consider a situation where you’re having lunch with a group of friends. Instead of forcing your server to run six credit card tabs, you decide to split the bill and pay with cash. Instead of waiting until you got home to enter this expense, by logging on to Mint.com, you can enter your share of that group luncheon right from the table.

To create the transaction, tap the “+” symbol on the lower right corner of your phone.

A calculator-like screen will appear. Here you should enter the amount of the transaction. Tap the “Choose merchant” menu.

Our geo-location feature will pinpoint your whereabouts so you can select from a list of nearby vendors.

If the merchant does not appear in the list, you can manually enter it in the top field. If you’re entering an expense that was incurred in a different location, just skip this step and leave the merchant blank for now. Tap the Next button.

The Save transaction screen will appear. Here you can add details about the expense, such as a spending category or tags (such as “reimbursable” or “tax-deductible”). You can also modify the date of the transaction or change the location, by double-tapping the map icon and dragging the map tack to the right place. Once you’ve entered all the details you want to record, tap “Save.”

Now the entry will be added to your transactions. You’ll be able to see it recorded under the All Accounts heading of your Overview page.

Note: By default, Mint will mark the ‘Split from my last ATM’ box. Unless you have separately recorded cash income, it’s best to leave this checked–when checked, your cash spending will be taken from your latest uncategorized ATM withdrawal. If you do wish to change it, tap on the Expense field. If you uncheck this box, then you may wind up double-booking your spending: you’ll see both the cash withdrawal and the cash spending you just entered, even though you can’t spend money twice that you only withdrew once (though it would be oh-so-nice if you could).

Check Transactions

Cash spending isn’t the only thing you can record with this new function. You can use check transactions to record checks you write, long before your bank becomes aware of them. Start the process as you do with cash transactions, by tapping the + symbol on the bottom right corner. Tap the Expense menu to go to the Transaction Type screen. Tap the “Check” radio button. A menu will appear just below where you can edit the account and enter the check number. With a check number, Mint.com will auto-reconcile your check entries with your bank account, once the bank has processed the check.

Tap the “Back” button on your phone to return to the Add Transaction screen. Enter the amount of the check you’ve just written and select the payee from the “Choose merchant” menu (or enter one manually at the top of the screen).

You can review your entry and add as much or as little additional detail as you like. You can adjust the date of the transaction and select the appropriate spending category. Like cash transactions, you can also add tags and notes to your check transactions to better categorize and describe your spending. Tap “Save” and your check will be recorded under the Pending heading of the All Accounts screen.

Pending Transactions

Pending transactions are used to track non-cash spending that you’ve incurred, but that has not yet posted to your bank or credit account. For example, if you go on a shopping spree with your credit card on Saturday, the damage may not appear on your account balances until after the weekend. In order to always have an accurate figure for your remaining bank or credit card balances, you’ll want to enter such spending as pending transactions.

To log a pending transaction, start by tapping the + symbol on the bottom right corner of your phone. Enter the amount of the purchase you’ve made. Tap the “Choose merchant” menu to enter the appropriate vendor, then tap the “Back” button on your phone.  Tap on the Expense field to change Payment Type to “Credit/Debit Card.” When you do, the Account menu will appear below.  Select the proper checking or credit account from the menu, then tap the “Back” button on your phone to return to the “Add Transaction” screen. Tap the “Next” button.

The transaction confirmation screen will appear where you can edit details such as the date, category and tags related to the transaction. When entering pending credit card transactions, try to be accurate with both the date and the amount. When your credit card is updated in Mint.com, we will try to automatically reconcile the pending transactions. We do this based on matching both the amount and the date range. If there’s no match, you’ll have to manually reconcile the pending spending to your credit card. After completing the basics, you can review your entry and add as much or as little additional detail as you like. Once you’ve reviewed your entry, tap the “Save” button. Your spending will be recorded under the Pending heading of the All Accounts screen.

Deleting Manual Transactions

To delete any of the manual transactions that you’ve made on your Android phone, login to Mint.com from your computer.

Sign Up or Log In to Mint.com to try these features today.

Mint.com’s new Bill Reminders feature will help you stay on top of bills by tracking recurring bills in one place. You can see all your upcoming payments on a simple timeline and will receive customized due date reminders on Mint.com, or via email and text message.

“Juggling due dates and amounts owed, and jumping from websites to paper statements is tedious and confusing. Busy people have better ways to spend their time and money, such as saving toward a goal,” said Aaron Forth, vice president and general manager of the Intuit Inc.’s Personal Finance Group. “Bill Reminders simplifies the bill-paying process by letting people see all bills in one spot, set up personalized reminders and avoid costly late or overdraft fees.”

Mint.com already offers reminders for credit cards and loans. The newest feature, developed in response to customer requests, helps you consolidate and track these payments alongside other important bills, such as those from phone, cable, auto and electric companies.

How it Works

When logging into Mint.com, you will see regular bills automatically identified and added to the new Bill Reminders feature, based on prior bank statements and monthly spending patterns. From there, you can:

• See all bills in one place: You no longer need to log into multiple sites to track upcoming due dates.
• Get bill due date alerts: You’ll receive an email or text message reminder to avoid missed payments, late or overdraft fees.
• View a timeline of bills: See upcoming and past bills right on the homepage.
• Set up your bills easily: Automatically add bills that are suggested by Mint, or simply add a bill from a transaction.

Bill Reminders is part of Mint.com’s ongoing commitment to helping you better manage their money and plan for their financial future. The new feature also reflects Mint.com’s dedication to customer satisfaction, as it was tested for several weeks by a group of users who had a say in the final product.

For more details instructions on using the new bill reminders function, see our how-to post.

Never again worry over how much of your money is available at any given moment and to where all that cash you just pulled from the ATM went– with Mint.com’s updated iPhone app, you can now track spending on-the-go. Responding to users’ top requests, Mint.com launched an update to its free, award-winning iPhone app that lets people manually enter cash transactions and pending expenses like checks or credit/debit card transactions not yet cleared. The result is greater accuracy, which lets people more closely track to budgets.

“If you’re walking around with cash, it’s easy to end up back at the ATM thinking, ‘where did it all go?’”, said Aaron Forth, General Manager of the Intuit Personal Finance Group.  “At Mint, we’ve always been great at accurately tracking what’s spent on plastic, but now we’re cutting out the tedious work of sifting through receipts to ferret out where cash went, or checking online bank statements to see what checks bought, by creating an always-there mobile tool that allows immediate reconciliation.”

To make management of on-the-go spending as easy as possible, Mint.com has built geo-location capability into the app to help instantly match a transaction to a point of purchase. Users simply open the app to register recent spending, and then choose a merchant from those found nearby. The amount spent is automatically deducted from the most recent ATM withdrawal, so the cash balance is kept up to the minute.

The result is an accurate read of how much cash is in a checking account, total credit card debt, and all other account balances right in the palm of the hand. People can check both their current balances (what is in an account right now) and their available balances (which takes into account pending transactions) wherever they are – granting a more accurate view than they can get from many banks.

With the new update, Mint iPhone users can now:

• Enter spending on-the-go: When money leaves the wallet, users can tell Mint where it went in real-time, adding a new layer of clarity. Geolocation takes out the need to even find the merchant.
• See available balances across accounts: By entering all pending transactions, people know their reflected balances are accurate, so they can avoid overdrafts or other fees.
• Track budgets up to the minute: By cleanly and immediately categorizing cash spending, no purchases remain unaccounted for in people’s budgets.

The latest update adds to current mobile functionality, which lets Mint iPhone users view automatically categorized recent transactions; receive alerts on spending versus personalized budgets and cash flow, account balances, bills due and more; see investment performance, sign up for Mint and add/edit accounts; and take advantage of personalized recommendations directly from their smartphone.

Users can feel safe managing money on the go, with an application-level passcode, read-only account access, and the ability to disable iPhone access to account information at any time from the Mint.com website.

The Mint iPhone app is available for iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iOS 3.1.3 or later. For more information, visit http://www.mint.com/how-it-works/anywhere/iphone/

Mint is the go-to mobile app for tracking activity across multiple bank and credit accounts, but until recently, there wasn’t an easy way to enter cash or check transactions on your iPhone or iPad. That’s all changed with the addition of a new feature that allows you to manually enter in cash or pending transactions, so you can get the most accurate view of your spending. Using an intuitive entry-form, you can now record cash you’ve spent or received, checks you’ve written, and other transactions that haven’t cleared your bank yet.

Manual cash entries flow through to both budgets and trends, so using this tool regularly can help you narrow down your spending habits. Here’s how to get the most out of this new feature.

Cash Transactions

Consider a situation where you’re having lunch with a group of friends. Instead of forcing your server to run six credit card tabs, you decide to split the bill and pay with cash. Instead of waiting until you got home to enter this expense, by logging on to Mint.com, you can enter your share of that group luncheon right from the table.

To create the transaction, tap the pencil icon on the top left corner of your iPad.

A calculator-like screen will appear. Here you should enter the amount of the transaction.  Meanwhile, our geo-location feature will pinpoint your whereabouts so you can select from a list of nearby vendors. You can leave the Expense menu unchanged.

Once the amount is entered, select the Next button on the bottom right corner.

After your location is pinpointed, tap the “Choose a Merchant” field. You will see a list of nearby merchants, but if the appropriate one does not appear, you can manually input it from the top field (it will be saved for future entries).

By default, Mint will mark the ‘Split from my last ATM withdrawal’ box. Unless you have separately recorded cash income, it’s best to leave this checked–when checked, your cash spending will be taken from your latest uncategorized ATM withdrawal. If you do wish to change it, tap on the Expense field.

If you uncheck this box, then you may wind up double-booking your spending: you’ll see both the cash withdrawal and the cash spending you just entered, even though you can’t spend money twice that you only withdrew once (though it would be oh-so-nice if you could).

After completing the basics, you can review your entry and add as much or as little additional detail as you like. You can adjust the date of the transaction and select the appropriate spending category. The cash transactions feature supports Tags and has a Notes field, so you can further categorize and describe your spending.

With everything filled in to your liking, click the Done button, and the entry will be added to your transactions. You’ll be able to see it recorded under the All Accounts of your Accounts tab on your iPhone or the Balances tab on the iPad.

Check Transactions

You can use check transactions to record checks you write, long before your bank becomes aware of them. Start the process as you do with cash transactions, by tapping the pencil icon on the bottom right corner. Enter the amount of the check you’ve just written. Tap on the Expense field to change Payment Type to “Check.”

When you do, the Account menu will appear below.  Select the proper checking account from the Account menu, and make sure you fill in the proper check number.

With a check number, Mint.com will auto-reconcile your check entries with your bank account, once the bank has processed the check.

Once you’ve entered the account and check number, tap the Back button on the top left corner of the phone to return to the “Add Transaction” screen. Tap the Next button. You can review your entry and add as much or as little additional detail as you like. You can adjust the date of the transaction and select the appropriate spending category. Like cash transactions, you can also add tags and notes to your check transactions to better categorize and describe your spending. Tap “Done” and your check will be recorded under the Pending heading of the All Accounts screen.

Pending Transactions

Pending transactions are used to track non-cash spending that you’ve incurred, but that has not yet posted to your bank or credit account. For example, if you go on a shopping spree with your credit card on Saturday, the damage may not appear on your account balances until after the weekend. In order to always have an accurate figure for your remaining bank or credit card balances, you’ll want to enter such spending as pending transactions. Just like check and cash transactions, start by tapping the pencil icon on the bottom right corner. Enter the amount of the purchase you’ve made. Tap on the Expense field to change Payment Type to “Credit/Debit Card.” When you do, the Account menu will appear below.  Select the proper checking or credit account from the menu, then tap the “Back” button on the top left corner of the phone to return to the “Add Transaction” screen.

The pending transaction form is much like the cash transactions entry screen, but with the addition of an Account pop-up so you can pick the proper account. When entering pending credit card transactions, try to be accurate with both the date and the amount. When your credit card is updated in Mint.com, we will try to automatically reconcile the pending transactions. We do this based on matching both the amount and the date range. If there’s no match, you’ll have to manually reconcile the pending spending to your credit card. After completing the basics, you can review your entry and add as much or as little additional detail as you like. You can adjust the date of the transaction and select the appropriate spending category. The pending transactions feature supports Tags and has a Notes field, so you can further categorize and describe your spending. Once you’ve reviewed your entry, tap the “Done” button. Your spending will be recorded under the Pending heading of the All Accounts screen.

Deleting Manual Transactions

To delete any manual transactions you’ve made on your iPhone or iPad, tap on the manual transactions located within “All Accounts”. You can then click on the Trash icon on the top right to delete.

Sign Up or Log In to Mint.com to try these features today.

One of our main goals here at Mint is to help you save and manage your money better.

We got started by enabling you to add all your financial accounts in one place, then created nifty graphs charting your spending trends, added budget tracking and even helped you plan for the future with our goals feature.

Now, we are proud to announce our newest capability: offering personalized savings advice to our Android and iPhone app users.

If you use the Mint Android or iPhone app, you are now able to view savings tips and advice from us that have been personalized based on your own saving and spending behavior. If we see a credit card with a lower interest rate than the one you currently use (and carry a balance), we’ll let you know. If we find a savings account with a higher APY than yours, we’ll point it out. Just like we can alert you whenever your bank charges you a fee, we’re now on the lookout for ways to help you save your hard-earned cash.

At Mint.com, one of our core beliefs has always been that money management shouldn’t feel like a chore.

Now, we’re taking that principle to the next level: teaching young adults about money management in a fun, entertaining way.

We just launched our new online “Quest for Money” game developed in collaboration with Scholastic, the global children’s publishing, education and media company, as a fun way for middle school students to learn about money management strategies like earning and saving money, and budgeting to meet specific financial goals. The game challenges players with questions about money, shopping and saving – rewarding them for smart choices and correct answers.

To play the new game visit http://www.mint.com/education. There, you can even download lesson plans developed specifically for middle-school students. Materials also are available online for teachers at www.scholastic.com/mint and will be distributed in 30,000 classrooms nationwide this year.

The game was inspired by and based on the characters in our Quest for Credit video.

At Mint, we’ve always been committed to helping you pay off your debt and save more by showing you where your money goes and finding financial products with better terms for you; from credit cards to high-yield savings accounts.

Now, we can even help you find a mortgage with a lower rate, thanks to the new home loans feature in our Ways to Save section.

Whether you’re a first-time home buyer or looking to refinance an existing loan, Mint’s home loans feature aims to help you reduce your monthly payment or cut your interest rate.  It shows how various factors, including the size of your down payment or paying points, will affect the loan rate and monthly payment.

To create the new feature, Mint worked with Credit Sesame, an online company that provides consumers with bank-level analytics for loan offers. With information provided by users, the Credit Sesame analytics engine automatically and securely creates a complete financial profile – including current debts, loans, assets and available credit. It then evaluates that profile against thousands of products from lenders and brokers. The result:  a targeted and customized list of potentially available loan options.

You can try the new home loans feature even if you’re not currently a Mint.com user: simply visit www.mint.com and go to the “Ways to Save” tab.

Mint.com users can access the feature in the Ways to Save portion of their account.

If you have any mortgage-related questions, you can visit Mint Answers, where we’ve created a special new section dedicated to home loans.

Check out this new addition to Mint’s menu of free personal finance and money management tools – and if you’re not a Mint.com user yet, what are you waiting for? It’s free and takes less than five minutes to set up.

Credit and debt questions are among the most commonly-asked in the area of personal finance and money management. Recently, we brought in credit expert John Ulzheimer (who also contributes a weekly credit column for MintLife) to answer your questions on the topic (the majority of which you asked via our Facebook page.)

You can view one of John’s video answers here, and the rest of them on our YouTube channel.

And don’t forget about our debt reduction contest that could pay off for you – IN CASH. Sign up for the Drop Your Debt Challenge, Mint.com’s contest that pits teams against each other to see which city can most improve its debt-to-savings ratio.

Through April 4, Mint.com users in 10 cities are battling it out for cash prizes and civic pride. Worried that you can’t participate in one of the 10 city teams? Don’t be. You don’t have to live in one of the 10 cities to win a prize. Just ask Christopher G. from Binghamton, New York. He won $1,200 just for signing up – and there are still three more $1,200 sweepstakes prizes to be had!

Sign up now at http://mint.promo.eprize.com/dropyourdebt/.