Moving from Empower (Personal Capital) to Rocket Money
Assembled from both records. Nothing here is an opinion — it is the difference between two rows, written out.
Your data — read this first
Empower (Personal Capital) records transaction export as Yes, so take the export first. Rocket Money records history import as No: your history does not move, and you start from whatever your banks return on connection.
- Transactions
- No
- Balance history
- ?
- Budgets
- Rebuilt by hand
- Rules
- Rebuilt by hand
- Attachments
- ?
Transactions, balance history and attachments are Rocket Money’s own import attributes. Budgets and rules never transfer between two apps in this index.
What you gain
- Credit scores No → Yes
- Partner or household No → Yes
What you lose
- Manual accounts Yes → No
What is unchanged
- Free tier, Account aggregation, Rules engine, History import, Custom categories, Budgeting, Recurring transactions, Bills, Goal tracking, Net worth, Investment tracking, Reports
49 attributes are Unknown on one side and left out. Gains and losses are a diff of the two records.
How to do it
- Export from Empower (Personal Capital) first
Take the transaction export while your subscription is live. The record says export is available.
- Connect accounts inside the trial
Find out which of your banks fail before you are billed. Rocket Money reaches banks through Plaid.
- Rebuild budgets and rules
No app in this index imports another’s budgets or rules. Budgets are quick; rules are worth rebuilding as transactions arrive rather than all at once.