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Simple, like the other commenter mentioned, is by far the best bank-provided budgeting software, and it's not even close with the others. However, their entire
by PascLeRasc 7y ago
Simple, like the other commenter mentioned, is by far the best bank-provided budgeting software, and it's not even close with the others. However, their entire philosophy is based around only using their debit card. I love them, but if you'd prefer to use a credit card, Wealthfront and SoFi offer similar less-powerful tools to track different accounts, predict savings, break up savings, and categorize transactions.
- zepto 7y agoSimple blew it when they removed check mailing and then lied about the reason.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoWhat was the reason they actually removed it? The official answer seemed to be a vague hand-wavy "not many of you were using it and it's better if you use our other budgeting tool and write out a physical check anyway."
- zepto 7y agoThe writing out a physical check being better is a clear absurdity as opposed to having checks go out automatically for things like rent. The real reason is that they charge for the paper checks, whereas the automated service was free, and so was a cost center for them. If they had admitted that instead of trying to gaslight their customers I’d have respected them more.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoAh, that makes sense. While I suppose I'd have appreciated the honesty if they'd just said that, I'd still have moved back to Bank of America anyway. (I never shut down my BoA account even when Simple was my main checking account, in large part because Simple never added the ability to receive electronic bills and so I was having BoA pay a couple bills automatically out of the Simple account!)