Mint launches personal finance app for Android Tablets

Mint, the elegant personal financial management app owned by financial software company Intuit has finally released a version of its application specifically for Android tablets. Mint's app has been available on Android-based smartphones for over a year, but with the growing prevalence of tablets, and Ice Cream Sandwich promising to unify Android's smartphone and tablet interfaces, the time was right for a Mint tablet app.

Because Mint is so UI-centric, the tablet app doesn't try to cram more information into the larger screen real estate, but instead provides a clearer, easier-to-navigate interface.

Like its smaller-screen counterparts, Mint for tablets allows users to view all of their linked accounts at a high level, with graphs that illustrate the flow of finances over time, to set personal budgets and account alerts, bill reminders, to search history of transactions, and to enter cash transactions as they happen.

“In the next few months, Android tablets are expected to hold more than 40 percent of the market share,” Aaron Forth, general manager of Intuit's Personal Finance Group said in a statement on Wednesday. “As tablet use rises, more mobile-savvy people will look for ways to manage their lives across multiple devices, so we developed our Android tablet app to bring simple money management tools to their fingertips.”

Mint for Android Tablets is available for free in the Android Market now.