About
Named after a town
of eleven hundred people.
Minturn sits in a narrow valley in Eagle County, Colorado, with a ridgeline on either side. It is small, unglamorous and entirely unimpressed by anybody's spending — which felt like the right thing to name a budgeting app after.
The mark
The ridge inside the envelope is the letter M.
We drew two candidates — an envelope with a fold, and a bare skyline — and then noticed they were the same drawing. The ridge that makes the envelope's fold is also an M. So they are not two logos; they are the open and closed states of one.
The contained form is the app icon, because an icon needs a silhouette that survives at 29 pixels. The open form is the brand mark, because a wordmark should not have a box around it.
Ridgeline
The brand mark. An M drawn as a skyline.
The Fold
The app icon. The same ridge, inside an envelope.
The typeface
We had to draw the type, so we drew it properly.
The wordmark was set in a face that ships with macOS — which is not the same thing as a face you are licensed to redistribute in a product. Rather than pay for a compromise, we built our own.
Minturn Slab is a derivative of Bitter, released under the SIL Open Font Licence, with three deliberate changes:
- A chamfered M, its peak cut at 45° to match the logo's apex. M opens both words of the name, so it is the letter that earns the change.
- Tabular figures by default, so every amount column lines up without each component having to remember to ask.
- The mark as a glyph at U+E000, so the logo can be typed inline.
It is OFL, which means you can use it too. Every word on this site is set in it.
Where we draw the line
The list matters more than the feature list.
Every one of these is a thing we have been asked for, or could obviously monetise, and have decided against.
Ask for your bank login
Not through an aggregator, and not read-only. The convenience is real, and the risk is not ours to take on your behalf.
Sell or share your data
No ad network, no broker, no analytics partner receiving anything financial.
Hold your data hostage
CSV export on every tier, including Free. Stop paying and you keep everything.
Ship an upsell as a feature
No nagging modals, no artificial scarcity, no countdown on a free tier that is meant to be permanent.
The maker
Who builds it.
Minturn Money is built and operated by Rocky Mountain Apps LLC, an independent software company in El Paso County, Colorado. Not a startup with a runway to burn and a growth target to hit — which is the reason the pricing page is short and the list above is possible.
It started the way most budgeting apps start: with a person who had tried the others. Spreadsheets that needed maintaining, apps that wanted a bank login, systems that were either too rigid or too clever. Envelope budgeting was the method that stuck, because it moves the decision to before the purchase instead of after it. Nothing on the market did that part well enough, so this exists.
The app shipped first under a different name. It is the same product, the same code and the same data — renamed, and named better.
There is one address, and a person at the other end of it: minturn@rockymountainapps.com. Support, bugs, feature arguments and press all go there.
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Built to be boring about your money.
Which, for a budgeting app, is the entire point.
Never Summer Mountains · mark byzewski, CC BY 2.0
