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#QUICKEN ESSENTIALS FOR MAC VS IBANK FREE#

It's also free to use, though they will take money for it if you want. It imports all my transactions from all my financial institutions with no problem. SEE's is much harder to work with, but as reconciliations only take a few minutes per month, I'm willing to overlook it because of the rock-solid and otherwise excellent feature set. The last PFS I used was Quicken 2006, and its reconciliation made perfect sense to me.

My only complaint about SEE Finance is a, IMO, lackluster reconciliation module. It doesn't have a true forecasting tool, if that's important to you, but you can enter future-dated transactions in the transaction view to see what your balances will be. SEE Finance user here, and it works like this, too. Importing transactions (say, downloading from a credit card company) goes through a dialog box, but stuff that you add manually is in-line. There's a transaction register which occupies most of the window, and when you want to create a new transaction you hit the appropriate button and a new line appears at the bottom of the register for you to fill in the details. I know that may seem like a minor complaints, but it just doesn't work for me.Дunno about the others, but that's how iBank works. Every app I've tried insists on opening a new dialog just to enter a transaction. My biggest problem is that I have not been able to find one that just allows you to enter checks, deposits, etc directly into the 'statement view' (or equivalent) as does Quicken. I haven't been able to get enthused about any of the 'Quicken alternatives' so far. (Edit: iBank seems fine too, but it's hard to justify its high price tag so long as Quicken 2007 continues to function, and basically meets my needs) I figured Intuit would've updated Quicken Essentials to a fully-featured product (ie with investments) by now, but that hasn't happened either. I figured when it hit version 1.0 and appeared on the Mac App store (for ease of upgrades and multiple machine use) I'd give it another look, but that still has not happened. It imported my 20 year history from Quicken flawlessly and seemed to work fine, except for a couple very minor issues. Of the alternatives I tried, the one I preferred was SEE Finance. So far it's still supported, and still (mostly) works as expected (on both Lion and Mountain Lion). When Lion arrived I tried out various alternatives, but eventually just held my nose and paid for the Lion-compatible version of Quicken 2007. Sure it has flaws, there are known limitations & bugs, it's dated, but it works great for me. I also like to be able to open & view multiple account registers at once. Quicken does this just fine and it maintains my ~20 year history as well.

#QUICKEN ESSENTIALS FOR MAC VS IBANK DOWNLOAD#

I need a finance program to download transactions from my banks, credit cards, and brokerage transactions. I know you excluded Quicken, but as a long time Quicken user, I find the Quicken 2007 for Lion to meet my requirements fine. I'd be curious to see what others are now using and how they rate the applications. I excluded Quicken because I think anyone reading this thread is trying to avoid Quicken. Let me know if there are others I missed. While I'm not necessarily in the market to switch, I am curious of the current state of Mac personal finance apps.

Of the two I think it mostly comes down to whether you want something that looks Mac-like or not. Of the two, either Moneydance or iBank I would highly recommend to anyone. Some times data entry, especially on splits, just feels like it takes longer than it should. Around the same time I had tried out iBank, but it was horribly slow back then on the amount of data I had (goes back to 1993).ДЇast forward to late 2011 and I switched from Moneydance to iBank since version 4 fixed the performance issues with large datasets I previously had. Moneydance worked really well, but it is a Java application and isn't as Mac-like as others. I was a Quicken for Mac user in the early days, but switched to Moneydance around 2008. Was curious if there are any new players or if there were major updates to some of the existing. I think it's been since early 2012 that we've had a thread about personal financial software.

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