26 Financial Tools (Mainly For Free)

When searching for help online, getting an overview to your own finances, there are literally tons of applications out there that are for free and easy to use. You can find complex finance managing tools as well as handy calculators for different purposes.

Here I’m presenting to you the finest selection; some of them do contain advertising. However, even the tools that are usually to pay for are free to try, so you can only win. Probably the only hard part is finding the right application that fits your needs, limiting to 1 or 2 tools.

Financial Health: CNN Money
If you ever had the desire to measure the health of your finances – this is something for you. You don’t need to sign-up for anything; it’s just ready to go. From housing payment to retirement’s savings, you can see if you are spending the right amount of money.

Automatically shows the right amount to invest in the stock market depending the overall your income.

Clear and fast results with CNN's alternative.

Yahoo! Finance
The number 2 in the search engine market offers a variety of high quality calculators for different purposes. Additionally, they provide a bunch of information, and advice for the ones interested in finance.

Yahoo! Finance is not only a site with different tools, but it also offers news including stock quotes, stock exchange rates, corporate press releases and financial reports, and popular message boards for discussing a company’s prospects and stock valuation.

More than just a few tools: News, Guides and more.

ClearCheckBook
This handy little online tool can also be used via mobile phone to check your current transaction summary, overview of spending, and saving, and a whole lot more. You don’t need to enter personal data, and  all the information entered as well as the account can be deleted at any time.

It’s free, the companies costs are basically covered with donations. Import and export features are available to down- or upload important transactions.

Attractive layout, powerful features.

MoneySavingExpert
You might have already heard about this site. Even thought I think it’s a little too fancy, they offer some great and useful stuff. In addition to the tools you can see that they are also publishing interesting articles and a lot more. Definitly worth visiting from time to time.

Takes some time to fill in all details: The Budget Planner

You can check out their tools here:

• BudgetCalculator
• CallChecker
• Tool Box (see “Tool Box” on the right)

More Tools

It’s not possible to cover all financial applications that are available, here are some more: Geezeo, Rudder, BalanceTrack, Quicken Online, Buxfer, Wesabe, Cake Financial, Thrive, Mint, GNUCash, Moneytrackin, Pear Budget, Manage Me, Smarty Pig, MoneyStrands, BudgetPulse, Yodlee, AceMoney, Invoicera, Billing Boss, MySpendingPlan, Billster.

Privacy And Personal Data

Especially on the internet, privacy and the security of information is a big topic. As long as you do not enter any of the sensitive data (bank account, credit card, name), you do not need to be afraid of any of the tools.