What's a good replacement for Mac Quicken

June 12, 2009 9:57 AM

What's a good replacement for Quicken on the Mac?

I've been struggling with Quicken for years now. 2007 is my latest version. Perhaps it's me that's the problem. . I don't want to flame on Quicken, I just want something else. My primary thing I like to do is download my accounts directly from my bank. All else is optional.

posted by diode to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Might want to start by looking at these questions:

Personal Finance Software for Mac Question: Deluxe 2008 Edition
Does QuickBooks for Mac suck less than Quicken?
Personal Finance Software for Mac OS X?
Mac Finance Software

Personally, I use Moneydance and my fiance uses Mint. We both like the ones we use.
posted by bibbit at 10:06 AM on June 12

I'm a big fan of Yodlee MoneyCenter. I also use Mint, which has a better UI but is less powerful.
posted by raf at 10:14 AM on June 12

I use Moneydance. I like it. I'm pretty sure you can download it to try for free, too.

When my old computer died and I got a new one, I sent them an email, and they sent me a new password key to install it again free on my new machine. They had kept my old info based on the email I sent, and I got this response from them in less than a day.

Hard to beat that level of service.
posted by jeff-o-matic at 10:15 AM on June 12

I like Moneydance a lot. The only (minor to me) issue is that, because it is written in java, there are various ways in which its UI doesn't feel quite right for OS X -- though it is a perfectly fine UI. It does have a demo, worth trying.
posted by advil at 10:26 AM on June 12

I asked this question awhile back, focused on Mac options, and got several decent answers.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:49 AM on June 12

I like iBank ok, especially if you're not looking for Quicken's more advanced features (stocks, planning, etc..). I tried most of the financial software available for the mac and all the other ones were either feature poor or too much fiddling. I think one of iBank's greatest features is the ability to set up rules for importing transactions. Example: your bank lists a transaction as "8535 MAIN ST POS" and you know that's your local grocery store, you can tell iBank to replace that with the name of the store, and the category. From that point forward it does an automatic replacement of 8535xxx with whatever you've told it. It makes reviewing your transactions much easier later on.

That said, iBank isn't perfect, and I'm still struggling with getting my various accounts to play nice (transfers to my credit card, or payments of my mortgage showing up correctly in those accounts), but I've not gone through the help files very well.
posted by gofargogo at 11:18 AM on June 12

I tried moneydance and it was fine, but I prefer mint. Both Mint and Yodlee Moneycenter use the same back-end for connecting to your banks, which is totally seamless for 98% of accounts. To emphasize how well it works, I actually get to be annoyed that it can't download my utility and HOA accounts, because everything else has worked so flawlessly that I feel like it should work with everything.
posted by Chris4d at 5:35 PM on June 14