Mint

Mint refers to either the discontinued Mint web analytics software by Shaun Inman or the Mint personal finance management application (acquired by Intuit). In the web analytics context, Mint was a self-hosted, premium alternative to Google Analytics that provided real-time visitor tracking and beautiful, customizable reports through an extensible plugin system called Pepper. The analytics software tracked page views, referrers, search terms, and visitor information while storing all data on the site owner's server for privacy and control. Mint featured a clean, user-friendly interface and was popular among designers and developers who valued aesthetics and data ownership. The software was discontinued in 2013 but influenced many modern analytics tools with its design-focused approach. In the personal finance context, Mint is a mobile and web application that aggregates financial accounts, tracks spending, creates budgets, and provides financial insights. It automatically categorizes transactions, sends bill reminders, and offers personalized money-saving recommendations. While both products share the Mint name, they serve entirely different purposes in analytics and financial management respectively.