5. Mint (http://www.mint.com/)

Intuit's free personal finance aggregator allows its 2.5 million monthly users to track their spending, monitor their credit scores and spot potential fraud by automatically downloading transactions from bank, credit card and investment accounts.

It is also a favorite among financial advisors.

"Mint allows you to combine all of your finances into one location so that you can take a high level view," said David Almonte, a CPA in Providence, Rhode Island.

If you are an active investor, you might prefer Personal Capital (http://www.personalcapital.com/), which has a better free portfolio manager. I liked Personal Capital's elegant, ad-free dashboard. I did not like, however, being emailed and called about signing up for its fee-based investment advisory service, which is the site's raison d'etre.

While some worry about security with aggregator sites where you have to hand over your account login credentials, I am comfortable with these sites' privacy and security policies.

As the victim of several database breaches, including those at Anthem Inc and Sony Corp, I know that staying offline is no guarantee of safety. Too much of our private information is stored in insecure databases over which we have no control. With these sites, at least, I have some choice over what I share.

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