![]() ![]() Doug Hogg said, “It’s like an old shoe - I know how to work it, so I am not changing until I have a very good reason.” Andrew Malis noted that Quicken 2007 is “creaky around the edges - I periodically have to rebuild the database - but it continues to work solidly even with a 30 MB database and transactions going In terms of rating and votes, Quicken 2007 topped the Intuit list, and many commenters pointed to the comfort they felt in continuing to use a now-discontinued app first released over eight years ago. The cumulative 800-pound gorilla of Mac finance apps, four editions of Quicken made it into the top ten - Quicken Essentials, Quicken for Windows, Quicken 2015/2016, and Quicken 2007 - with a total of 602 votes. Quicken 2007 (244 votes, 3.16, 10.7+) - Read comments from the previous article. Focus on apps that have free trial versions and strong import capabilities, since you’ll want to get some experience with the app before you commit to it, and because you’re likely to want to use this app for years, stick with apps that are getting regular updates. We offer rating graphs and commentary for the apps that garnered the most votes for the rest, the research is up to you, since only you know what features are important. Here’s the full list of financial apps, sorted by number of votes. Apps that received only a handful of votes have skewed weighted averages, of course, so we also counted the raw number of votes each app received. When it came time to evaluate the results, we calculated the weighted average for each app, assigning a weight of 1 (Avoid it) through 5 (Can’t live without it) for each the five choices - the best weighted average possible is thus 5. If those two don’t float your boat, check out other apps that scored well in the ratings, but didn’t collect quite as many votes (such as SEE Finance, Moneywiz, and CheckBook/CheckBook Pro).īe sure to look at the full results and read the comments on the original article, since there’s a lot of useful information there that we couldn’t convey here.ĭon’t forget to read Michael Cohen’s articles on “ Finding a Replacement for Quicken” (5 August 2011) and “ Follow-up to Finding a Replacement for Quicken” (20 September 2011), which helped readers understand their needs and choose from the available alternatives.When looking at the top Quicken alternatives by weighted average and vote count, Moneydance (the top rating, second-most votes) and Banktivity (most votes, third-best rating) are the clear favorites.Still, some have found alternatives to the Quicken quagmire. “You can’t do a good evaluation of any financial management application without really using it for some significant time period,” he said, “and meanwhile you want to keep your data entry current in your current application, doubling the time and effort spent doing your bookkeeping while also doing new appĮvaluation.” Despite the extra work, he continues to explore alternatives (particularly SEE Finance), as he’s worried about Quicken’s long-term viability due to Intuit’s plan to sell it (see “ Intuit to Sell off Quicken,” 24 August 2015). Quicken 2007 user Paul Brown voiced his reluctance in testing other finance apps. To paraphrase the band Chicago, Quicken can be a hard habit to break. While few apps elicit the level of contempt and resignation as the most recent Quicken editions, Quicken 2007 finished near the top for both vote count and ratings. We found that the landscape for finance apps is still dominated by Intuit’s Quicken, but there are several alternatives that our readers recommend wholeheartedly.Īll four versions of Quicken in our survey made the top ten in terms of vote count, with varying ratings. We asked you to rate the Mac personal finance software that’s near and dear to your heart (or that had let you down), and nearly 700 TidBITS readers answered our survey of 34 apps with close to 1,400 votes (see “ Vote for Your Favorite Mac Personal Finance App,” 17 February 2016). #1642: How to identify phishing attacks, new iPhone and iPad passcode requirements.#1643: New Mac mini and MacBook Pro models, new second-gen HomePod, security-focused OS updates, industry layoffs.#1644: Explaining Mastodon and the Fediverse, HomePod Software 16.3 and tvOS 16.3, GoTo breach.#1645: AirPlay iPhone to Mac for remote video, Siri learns to restart iPhones, Apple's Q1 2023 financials.1646: Security-focused OS updates, Photos Workbench review, Mastodon client wishlist, Apple-related conferences. ![]()
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