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<blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 1263575" data-attributes="member: 21101"><p>Don't get me started on this topic... This is a real weak spot for the Mac, and I posted an enormous rant about this in about 2007. What's funny is that everything I said then is still true now. </p><p></p><p>Quicken Essentials certainly looks nice, but it's a baby app in every sense of the word. Intuit didn't think that Mac owners would care about real financial software, probably thinking we're all trust-fund hipsters with no concept of investing, budgeting or using any currency aside from USD. So if you have to track an investment account, pay bills, have accounts in more than one currency, or need robust reporting, QE is not for you. </p><p></p><p>iBank is probably the best, but it's buggy, slow and has terrible budgeting and reporting. It's still a one-developer operation and he's pretty thinly spread between the iPad development, Mac development and iPhone development. It's hard to see how much longevity is in this app. </p><p></p><p>MoneyWell is another good one, but again it lacks investment tracking (the developer has been promising it since about 2008, but there is still no sign of it), bill pay and other things Quicken windows users have had since Clinton was president. </p><p></p><p>MoneyDance and MyMoney are both cross platform efforts written in Java. They're not bad, but look like mid-90's linux apps. So, like many other switchers, I run a virtual machine just to keep my finances in order, which is mildly ridiculous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Zoolook, post: 1263575, member: 21101"] Don't get me started on this topic... This is a real weak spot for the Mac, and I posted an enormous rant about this in about 2007. What's funny is that everything I said then is still true now. Quicken Essentials certainly looks nice, but it's a baby app in every sense of the word. Intuit didn't think that Mac owners would care about real financial software, probably thinking we're all trust-fund hipsters with no concept of investing, budgeting or using any currency aside from USD. So if you have to track an investment account, pay bills, have accounts in more than one currency, or need robust reporting, QE is not for you. iBank is probably the best, but it's buggy, slow and has terrible budgeting and reporting. It's still a one-developer operation and he's pretty thinly spread between the iPad development, Mac development and iPhone development. It's hard to see how much longevity is in this app. MoneyWell is another good one, but again it lacks investment tracking (the developer has been promising it since about 2008, but there is still no sign of it), bill pay and other things Quicken windows users have had since Clinton was president. MoneyDance and MyMoney are both cross platform efforts written in Java. They're not bad, but look like mid-90's linux apps. So, like many other switchers, I run a virtual machine just to keep my finances in order, which is mildly ridiculous. [/QUOTE]
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