Why I buy this one ?
- Easy-to-use software for managing your finances
- Track spending, manage investments, plan for the future, and more
- Easily download financial data directly into Quicken
- Works with 2,000+ banks, credit card, brokerage, and 401(k) companies
- View net worth by cash, property, or stocks; revealing charts and graphs

What our customer's say!

"DO NOT BUY QUICKEN", Poor programming. Importing feature make errors repeatedly. Have to reinstall several times to get working with errors caused by quicken. Error messages blame financial institution but turns out to be quicken error. Overall I do not recommend quicken and wish I had read the rest of these comments before buying in the first place.

"This is a TOTAL piece of garbage!!!", I wanted to organize my finances, and friends have recommended using quicken. I have a degree in finance and work at a software company, and this has to be the most confusing program I have ever used. Entries are constantly being placed into the wrong categories, payments to credit cards are showing up as INCOME and EXPENSES at the same time. Transfers between checking and savings keep showing up as income on reports (by quicken's estimate, I am making 4x my salary in income just because I move money between accounts.)

I think I am going to dump this program and use Excel instead ... I spend aboout 3 hours every week just trying to get everying to balance, and this program is taking a lot longer than it would do do things by hand. I've been trying to get ths software up and running for over 3 months, and it just doesn't work, period. Quicken: What are you doing?!? This was supposed to make my life easier ...

"Save your money and data and computer", As with other users I have been a quicken user for years. The 2004 and 2005 are in shortest phrase; worse ever, bugges loaded with, and if use with xp media edition make sure you save all data, or when closing quicken some times you will lost you drive drivers.

"Be afraid, be very afriad!", I've been using Intuit products over 10 years, both at home and work. I was recently forced to upgrade Quicken because my bank no longer supported imports into my existing version. Ever since I have had nothing but trouble. I have lost hours, even days of my time working with customer support, I even spent $30 to pay for support for a "fix" that lasted all of 2 days. I am so frustrated with the software and support that I have sworn off purchasing an Inuit product again, ever.

Save yourself some time, money and frustration by staying away from this product!

"Quicken 2005 is the WORST yet", After being forced to upgrade to 2005, I'm feeling lucky that I haven't completed lost all my data. This is the buggiest software I've ever encountered. I can't seem to use it without my system hanging up about 90% of the time. Their customer support is a joke too. Last year, Turbo Tax incorrectly included a deduction on my taxes twice, and after hours with their phone support folks and no help, I refused to pay for the software, and re-filed on another (practically free) site in less than 1 hour. Needless to say, I haven't even bothered to go that route with this product. I'm just going to find a replacement for it.

This company doesn't have a clue. Stay away from their products. If you think Quicken 2004 is bad, 2005 will make you wish you were still on 2004. It has gotten worse with every upgrade -- I believe I've been using it since 1999.

Makes me wonder about the VERY FEW users here that don't seem to be having problems. Maybe they work on Quicken's "Help Desk."

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Works fine but why is the upgrade necessary?", I upgraded from Quicken Deluxe 2001 on a one-year-old Dell laptop running Win XP Professional. All of my data, from 1996, and settings were converted with no problems, including existing saved reports. The program appears to run about as fast as the 2001 version on my laptop.

The only reason I upgraded is that Quicken will stop supporting account downloads for my 2001 version this year, and I was able to get a copy of this 2004 version from a seller on Amazon for about $10. Compared to 2001 there is nothing new in this version that I need, and some elements (like the budget) are harder to use or require more mouse clicks to find and use. The bottom line is that Quicken is requiring an unnecessary upgrade to a good product just to make more money. This is a sleazy practice. If they had allowed me to continue using 2001 for account downloads by paying a reasonable fee (like Norton Antivirus) I would have paid it and kept using 2001.

Note that Quicken tells you in its letters and on its website, when indicating you need to upgrade in order to continue downloading account information, that you need to upgrade to the latest version (2005). That is not true. Upgrading to an older version (2004 in this case) costs much less and allows you to continue downloading for a few more years. Also, by buying an older version you get the latest "fixes" the first time you download data, which should correct most of the bugs that other users have complained about.

"Quicken 2004 is BAD!", Since Intuit has stopped providing stock updates and online account downloads for Quicken 2000, which I have been using for quite some time now, I was forced to upgrade to Quicken 2004. It is TERRIBLE! I use the X-Mouse settings of Tweakui - Quicken 2004 doesn't work well in that environment - it likes to pop-up lots of different windows and when my mouse would leave the window it would automatically minimize - very annoying. Intuit's only recommended solution is to not use the x-mouse setting. The Quicken 2004 budget screens are awful compared to the nice simple budget "spreadsheet" in Quicken 2000. The "Financial Summary" Net Worth is incorrect because it does not include hidden accounts. Their recommended solution - don't hide accounts - that's fine, except I have many years of data and many old, currently unused accounts. Quicken 2004 is so bad that I tried a demo of MS Money, it also wasn't that good so I ended up going back to Quicken 2000 - I'd rather manually enter all of my stock/bank transactions than deal with the terrible Quicken 2004 interface...

"Solid, nice improvements over 1998", I do not normally write reviews but I believe the Quicken reviews on Amazon are unfair and I am compelled to respond.

I have been using Quicken since I started with Quicken 1998. After reading the reviews of the Quicken products on Amazon, I was turned off and waited until support expired on my current version to buy the latest release.

I finally broke down and purchased Quicken 2004 in March.

I must say I think Quicken 2004 is great piece of software. I loved Quicken 1998 and the newer version is even better. The integration with the internet is excellent. I am able to keep track of a ton of financial details with little effort. I do not leverage the full suite of Quicken functionality, but it has been able to handle everything I want to do.

There are some annoyances: There is some built-in Intuit marketing (Note: it is not nearly as bad as other reviews lead you to believe). Also, reporting could be improved, and I have had some problems with data downloads. These are minor drawbacks, however, taken in the context of the overall product's quality.

I question the validity of the negative reviews of Quicken products in this forum. I will not speculate as to why they are so negative, but I recommend that any prospective buyers take these reviews with a grain of salt.

"Makes a pen and notebook seem like a great idea", Like others, I was also asked to upgrade (from 2002) and I did. What a mistake. Random bits of my brokerage data was lost and it has taken many months to get it back in order. Reconcilation is a pain with lots of screen delays on my PIII 500. The bugs keep popping up. For example, my security list can not remember the Vanguard S&P500 Index (VFINX). I have to enter it as a new security each time I want to use it. Do I sound frustrated? You bet I am. Watching this once great program turn into what is today will do that.

"It's terrible", So Intuit sent me friendly mail saying they were going to stop stock updates in the Quicken I use, Q2000. In a wildly self-serving manner they suggested I upgrade. I did. And this version is simply horrific - the UI is a mash of popup windows, the account list is gone (or maybe not, but I can't find it) - and I used that list to navigate my accounts - and everything is hard to understand and use. It's terrible. Stay away. Now all I need is something to track my investments...