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Mintaka
Personal finance that's private, powerful, and actually free
Mintaka is a personal finance app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. What YNAB, Monarch, and Copilot charge $100+/year for, Mintaka gives you free — budgets, scheduled transactions, tags, CSV import, and iCloud sync. No account needed. Pro adds multi-currency, forecast, investments, and full reports for $2.99/mo. Your data stays on your device and iCloud. No servers. No sign-up. Built independently over 10 years.
Hey everyone 👋 Mintaka has been 10 years in the making. Not 10 years of continuous development — 10 years of starting, stopping, rebuilding, and starting again. It started because my dad always had financial struggles. Not from bad decisions — from caring too much. He was a doctor who always put others first, always wanted to help everyone around him. Sometimes that meant our family's finances took a back seat. Growing up watching that, I promised myself I'd always stay on top of my money. So as a junior iOS developer, I built my first finance app. It was called Moneycker (Money + Tracker — not my best naming moment). I actually shipped it to the App Store. It made about $25 in sales. I was proud. Then life happened. Career grew, priorities shifted. But I kept coming back to it. I rebuilt that app from scratch at least 5 or 6 times over the years. One version even had working bank sync with Mexican banks through SaltEdge. Each version taught me something. None of them shipped — except the first one. In April 2021, my dad passed away from COVID. He was a doctor, and his unwavering commitment to being there for others is what defined him until the end. It changed everything about how I see time, priorities, and what matters. Three months ago, my son was born. And something clicked. I looked at this project I'd been carrying for a decade and decided: this time, I'm finishing it. Mintaka was actually just the internal codename for the project. It's a star in Orion's Belt — a fixed reference point that navigators used for thousands of years. The name grew on me and it stuck. The app is real. I use it every day with my own financial data — 12,000+ transactions imported from MoneyWiz. It's fast (spent weeks optimizing it to handle that volume), it's private (iCloud only, no servers, no accounts), and the free tier genuinely gives you what other apps charge $100/year for. I don't know if Mintaka will ever become a business, nor is my priority. But I know it's the best thing I've ever built. I'll keep improving it regardless of downloads or revenue, because building is what I love doing. If you've been tracking finances in a spreadsheet, or paying $100/year for an app that sells your data, or you've been looking for something that just works on iOS without creating yet another account — give Mintaka a try. I'd love your honest feedback. - This one is for my dad, and for my son.
About Mintaka on Product Hunt
“Personal finance that's private, powerful, and actually free”
Mintaka was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #158 on the daily leaderboard. Mintaka is a personal finance app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. What YNAB, Monarch, and Copilot charge $100+/year for, Mintaka gives you free — budgets, scheduled transactions, tags, CSV import, and iCloud sync. No account needed. Pro adds multi-currency, forecast, investments, and full reports for $2.99/mo. Your data stays on your device and iCloud. No servers. No sign-up. Built independently over 10 years.
On the analytics side, Mintaka competes within iOS, Privacy and Personal Finance — topics that collectively have 124k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Mintaka performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
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Hey everyone 👋
Mintaka has been 10 years in the making. Not 10 years of continuous development — 10 years of starting, stopping, rebuilding, and starting again.
It started because my dad always had financial struggles. Not from bad decisions — from caring too much. He was a doctor who always put others first, always wanted to help everyone around him. Sometimes that meant our family's finances took a back seat. Growing up watching that, I promised myself I'd always stay on top of my money.
So as a junior iOS developer, I built my first finance app. It was called Moneycker (Money + Tracker — not my best naming moment). I actually shipped it to the App Store. It made about $25 in sales. I was proud.
Then life happened. Career grew, priorities shifted. But I kept coming back to it. I rebuilt that app from scratch at least 5 or 6 times over the years. One version even had working bank sync with Mexican banks through SaltEdge. Each version taught me something. None of them shipped — except the first one.
In April 2021, my dad passed away from COVID. He was a doctor, and his unwavering commitment to being there for others is what defined him until the end. It changed everything about how I see time, priorities, and what matters.
Three months ago, my son was born. And something clicked. I looked at this project I'd been carrying for a decade and decided: this time, I'm finishing it.
Mintaka was actually just the internal codename for the project. It's a star in Orion's Belt — a fixed reference point that navigators used for thousands of years. The name grew on me and it stuck.
The app is real. I use it every day with my own financial data — 12,000+ transactions imported from MoneyWiz. It's fast (spent weeks optimizing it to handle that volume), it's private (iCloud only, no servers, no accounts), and the free tier genuinely gives you what other apps charge $100/year for.
I don't know if Mintaka will ever become a business, nor is my priority. But I know it's the best thing I've ever built. I'll keep improving it regardless of downloads or revenue, because building is what I love doing.
If you've been tracking finances in a spreadsheet, or paying $100/year for an app that sells your data, or you've been looking for something that just works on iOS without creating yet another account — give Mintaka a try.
I'd love your honest feedback.
-
This one is for my dad, and for my son.