Reports: Add a Comparison View/Report [edited] (4 Merged Votes)
Would like to see a way to see a monthly comparative view added for income and spending, which shows the amounts separated by month. As well as, be able to designate the months viewed (i.e. Feb to Sept). This would be very helpful in viewing category spending and how it has changed month to month.
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Thank you for the suggestion! We've had a couple of other requests for ways to break out monthly transactions, and our support team is looking into ways to enable that in Simplifi. Please keep checking back here for updates and alerts, and don't hesitate to give us a nudge if you don't find the answers you're looking for!
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It would be great to be able to quickly move between months within the Spending view. Say, to quickly look at January then February then March, to easily compare month-to-month spending. The only way to do this now is by entering in custom date ranges, which is cumbersome and slows down the comparison process. Adding this would be easy and make managing monthly spending/budgeting easier.0
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Hello @MakingItSimple,
Thanks for the suggestion!
To clarify your request, are you referring to the Spending Report? Please let me know, thanks!
-Coach Natalie-Coach Natalie
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Hi, yes, thank you! I'm actually referring to all of the Reports, I guess--Spending, Income, Net Income, Monthly Summary too.
Also, is there a way for the Savings report to include investments? Currently "savings" just seems to measure month-to-month cash holdings, which is not particularly meaningful.
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Hello @MakingItSimple,
Thanks for confirming! I have gone ahead and merged your post with an existing Idea post requesting a comparison view for Reports.
In regards to the Savings Report including investment data, as this Report is based solely on your Savings Accounts, investment data wouldn't be included. Also, we currently don't support Investment Transactions, which would be necessary in order for a Report to pull in the data, but this ability is forthcoming -- you can follow here for updates!
You are, however, always more than welcome to create a separate Idea post for any additional requests that you may have.
https://community.simplifimoney.com/discussion/998/creating-and-voting-for-ideas-in-the-community
-Coach Natalie-Coach Natalie
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I have switched from Mint to Simplify. I love the layout, dashboard, spending metrics, and most of all ... ad free. There is one feature I am missing from Mint, that I would love to see implemented with Simplifi, a comparison feature from the previous year for a specific category or tag. This is helpful when seeing what utilities, monthly costs, etc are increasing or decreasing. This screenshot was from Mint. Thanks for your time.
(maybe there is a way to do this and I am missing it)
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There should be an option to compare months, so you can see in one graph total month expenses/income month by month. That way you can see if expenses/savings are going up or down on a monthly basis.2
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i look at my finances by month by category and then total expenses. I then look at trends across the months by category. there is no report of this nature in Simplifi. I am suggesting to develop at report that shows all category expenses and income by month ( it would be great if this could be downloaded). If this data could be downloaded to excel I would be happy then I could build my own report.
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this would be an enhancement1
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Using the Reports feature I'm currently able to generate a report that shows all transactions classified by categories for specific months. However it seems that it doesn't allow me to aggregate spending transactions by category. For instance, I would like to know how much has been spend on the Grocery, or Rent, or Transportation category over the last 3-, 6- or 12 month period. It would be useful to know how much has been spent on each category in a way that aggregates all categories together, such as a "Pie" chart showing comparison of all category totals for the last year. This would be quite useful in knowing how much I should budget in each category for the next year based on what was spent in the previous year.
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month-by-month is how I conceptualize my spending and budgeting so being able to view reports on a monthly level for any span of time (like a whole year or more) would be very helpful!
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You are really missing the boat on providing trending spending reports for users that have converted from Mint. Mint has a
"Spending Over Time" menu that allows me to retrieve transactions from all accounts or one account by last 7 days, last 14 days, this month, last month, last 3 months, last 6 months, last 12 months, all time, or custom dates. Once you run your report, there is a "compare to" function that allows you to compare the results to the same period last year, etc.
This functionality is the main purpose I use a personal financial tracker! I have 10 years of data in Mint, and trend it year-to-year for retirement planning purposes.
This is a must for Simplifi, otherwise I will need to look elsewhere. I do like the Simplifi user interface.
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Mint has this feature and it is very informative to understand spending. I would like to see how much i spend each month and also how that compared to the past year. I've seen recommendations for wanting averages; I strongly agree with that but averages are useless if your spending habits fluctuate (e.g. my spending is extremely high in the 2 months of the year i pay property tax).
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Also coming from mint here and this feature is a must haveffor all the reasons already mentioned. Plus one for me to up vote as well
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What progress has been made toward implementing this feature?
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Upvoting this - I'm a big fan of it from Mint. Simplifi is a great product but would love to see this too.
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Please please please add this. I switched to you guys in 2022 and the comparison report was one of the most important features I used on Mint for 10 years. I really need this and would pay extra for it.
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Upvoting this comparison view report feature. It was one of my main reports in Mint and it's a glaring omission in Simplifi.
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The "trending" functionality in Mint is super important. Any updates on development?
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Absolutely would like to see this. Like most folks, my spending is cyclical (more spent in December, etc.) If I can't view something that compares this year to last year, I can't see if I'm on the right track! Comparing back even further would be even better — how does my spending in each category compare to the previous 3 years?
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Is there any update to adding the comparison feature in reports? And how can I vote for this idea, it doesn't seem to allow it above?
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I have also just switched from Mint to Simplifi. This feature was one of my most-used on Mint.
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I don't use Simplifi for budgeting and don't ever plan to. For those who manage their finances in a similar way to how I do, time period over time period (e.g., year-over-year; month-over-month; this month vs. last month, this month vs. 12 month average, etc.) reporting of expenses by category is THE primary way to monitor, understand, and adjust your spending. The prior period of comparison is a SUBSTITUTE for a set budget or spending plan and used INSTEAD OF A BUDGET or spending plan. A comparison feature is a critical need for customers who DO NOT USE BUDGETS or spending plans.
There seem to be a lot of former Mint users who used this feature in Mint and I suggest the Simplifi product team prioritize adding this feature to Simplifi if they want to keep these former Mint users. This definitely has my vote.
Simplifi User from February 2024 - February 2025
Mint User Since 2011
User Type: Monitor Net Income and Grow Net Worth
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I moved over from Mint, and this is a major feature of how I tracked my spending month to month and year to year to see trends and make adjustments as needed. Please add this.
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Agreed. As a non budget user, my most used mint feature was historical look backs and month over month comparisons. For Simplifi, I've taken to adding a million watchlists (which exposed data over time, averages, etc.) but it feels like a real low tech, scattered way of getting there.
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agreed, looks like this request is 3.5 years old. Hope to see this feature added soon. Converted from Mint in Nov 2023, after using that tool for almost 15 years. Looking forward to improvements here.
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Monthly Summary is a good start. However, it compares current month to previous month. More useful would be the functionality Mint had. Namely, the ability to compare a specified date range to the same range in the previous 12 months prior. This facilitates year-over-year comparisons. I have attached two screen shots as an example that shows the graph and transaction totals for easy comparison of last year and the previous year.
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Ability to compare reports time period over time period
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It would be very useful to have a set of reports (spending, income, etc), which allow us to set two date ranges to compare. So, for example, I'd be able to look at my spending in March 2023 as compared to March 2024 (another example, 1Q2023 compared to 3Q2023). All the standing filters and dimensions could be applied, but you'd have both months' spending displayed separately so the user can easily compare the two on a total, per category, or other dimensional basis.
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The request you mentioned already exists and has over 60 votes. Check it out.
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Simplifi User Since Nov 2023
Minter 2014-2023
Questionable Excel before 2014 to present
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