If one of your resolutions for the New Year is to have more control over your finances, you’re going to need a really good budgeting tool to help you along the way. We’ve written about many of these tools (such as Mint and BudgetPulse). But Good Financial Cents has brought up a few tools that you may not have heard of that could be useful for your budgeting needs. Let’s take a look at a few of them:
- Buxfer: this tool is specifically aimed at 20-somethings as it aims to help start you on the right budgeting track. Buxfer helps you to plan out your finances in a lot of ways. You can project your earnings and savings interest into the future, break down your goals into long-term and short-term, manage group expenses (like rent), and more.
- Moneytrackin’: this site helps you figure out where your money goes so that you can spot leaks and changes in behavior easily. Moneytrackin’ is also a great tool for small businesses and home businesses because it’s great for creating shared budgets.
- BudgetSimple: this is a straightforward and simple tool that aims first and foremost to get you out of debt. Track expenses, manage bills and learn to live within your means with the help of charts and other helpful visuals.
- My Spending Plan: this software uses the envelope system to help you create a budgeting plan. My Spending Plan will even send you email reminders of when bills need to be paid, etc. You’ll also find coupons and promotions on the site that further help you to save money.
Check out more free online budget helpers over at Good Financial Cents’ Top 10 Best (and Free) Online Budget Tools.