Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!aioe.org!news.newsland.it!newsfeed.x-privat.org!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!panix!not-for-mail From: BreadWithSpam@fractious.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Future of Quicken? Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 13:50:40 -0500 Organization: dyslexic agnostics unsure about a dog Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: panix3.panix.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1299005442 9890 166.84.1.3 (1 Mar 2011 18:50:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 18:50:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:wX8hT0WyKlag+5Fp9GShQrJyHdQ= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.sys.mac.apps:217 AES 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: > [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.