Four students. Four universities. One shared frustration: why is personal finance so confusing, and why isn't anyone making it easier for us?
When we started university, we each found ourselves completely lost in a world of financial jargon. TFSA? RRSP? Credit score? Tax returns? Nobody taught us this stuff in high school, and Googling it just led to more confusion — articles written by Bay Street types for Bay Street types.
We were making bad financial decisions not because we were careless, but because we genuinely didn't know better. Overdraft fees. Unused OSAP sitting in chequing accounts earning zero interest. Credit cards we didn't understand.
So we built the thing we wished had existed when we started. Fintro is a budgeting app and financial literacy platform designed specifically for Canadian post-secondary students — not watered-down advice, not condescending explainers, but real, practical tools built by people who are living the same experience as you.
We're four students from three Toronto universities. We know what rent in this city costs. We know what it's like to balance OSAP, part-time work, and trying to save anything at all. Fintro is built from that lived experience.
Every decision we make — product, pricing, design — starts with one question: is this genuinely good for students?
No jargon. No condescension. Finance is actually simple once someone explains it properly. That's what we're here to do.
Your financial data is personal. We treat it that way. We never sell your personal information to anyone, ever.
Financial literacy shouldn't cost money. Core features are always free. Because you're a student, not an investment banker.
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