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Re: Future of Quicken?

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AES <siegman@stanford.edu> writes:

> For this particular level of use, is the current Mac version (Quicken 
> Elements or whatever) a reasonably decent substitute?

The thing is that QEM (Quicken Essentials for the Mac) is not the
current version of Quicken - it's simply an entirely different
program.  And the feature set is substantially smaller.  And that's
even after Intuit added in a few features that had been missing
in an earlier release of QEM (ie. billpay, export to turbotax).

In particular - and a deal killer for me, certainly - is that
QEM doesn't have tools for investment management.  If all you
want is a checkbook tracker, I guess it's okay if way overpriced
for that small level of functionality.

Alternatives worth looking into:

gnucash
Money
iBank
Moneydance (these guys are working hard on Quicken imports)
Moneywell (not really for investments, either, but some
           interesting budgeting tools)
Mint.com (if you're comfortable online.  Intuit couldn't
          compete online - so they shuttered their own
          online operation and just bought Mint.  It's
          actually pretty impressive)

For what it's worth, the transfer process from Quicken to almost
any of these (including to Quickin for Windows!) is basically the
same - export from Quicken to QIF, import into new program, clean
up the mess if any.

Here's Moneydance's page about import:

<http://help.infinitekind.com/kb/importing-from-quicken-or-ms-money/how-can-i-transfer-my-data-from-quicken-into-moneydance>

> [If if it's not, and a lot of people get caught in a squeeze, anyone out 
> there who'd think of initiating a class-action suit -- or some 
> equivalent form of really bad publicity for Intuit?]

That doesn't seem to me to be likely to be productive in any way.

-- 
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks.  The rest gets trashed.

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Future of Quicken? AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-03-01 10:11 -0800
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        Re: Future of Quicken? massello@newsguy.com (Neill Massello) - 2011-03-01 18:22 -0700
          Re: Future of Quicken? Steve Fenwick <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-03-01 19:45 -0800
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            Re: Future of Quicken? Steve Fenwick <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2011-03-02 16:21 -0800
    Re: Future of Quicken? AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-03-01 22:21 -0800
  Re: Future of Quicken? HowdyDoody <howdy@doody.com> - 2011-03-02 08:48 -0600
    Re: Future of Quicken? AES <siegman@stanford.edu> - 2011-03-02 07:25 -0800
  Re: Future of Quicken? Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2011-03-03 09:16 -0700
    Re: Future of Quicken? mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) - 2011-03-03 18:17 -0500
      Re: Future of Quicken? Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2011-03-03 23:50 -0700
      Re: Future of Quicken? Paul Anderson <paulranderson@charter.net> - 2011-03-04 11:01 -0500
        Re: Future of Quicken? BreadWithSpam@fractious.net - 2011-03-04 11:34 -0500
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            Re: Future of Quicken? mikePOST@TOGROUPmacconsult.com (Mike Rosenberg) - 2011-03-05 09:36 -0500
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