What our customer's say!

"No stars for this looser", I used Quicken 2002 for the PC on my old PC. When Intuit stopped supporting it I switched to Quicken 2004 for the Mac. I love the Mac except for this wretched program. Do not buy this program unless you want to be extremely frustrated and no longer be able to trust your financial data. Is there a reliable and accurate financial program for the Mac? HELP!!!

"It stinks!", After yet another frustrating and fruitless session with this worthless software, I logged on here at Amazon to write a scathing revew. Lo and behold, many other reviewers had beat me to it! Kinda makes my day to see I'm not alone. Quicken came bundled with my new Mac G5 -- but Apple wasn't doing me any favors. Where to start? Poorly designed interface, difficulty of use, absence of many keyboard shortcuts, and a worthless Help section head the list. I was using Microsoft Money 99 on my old PC before making the switch and I loved it: easy to use, easy to look at, straightforward instructions and a plethora of shortcuts made it user-friendly. It was everything Quicken for Mac isn't, in other words.
Somehow I accidently deleted several weeks of register entries -- gone forever. Okay, I'm a computer klutz, but this NEVER happened in over 5 years of using Money '99. I tried to find 'list of payees' in the Help section. Pretty simple, you would think, but it only came up with 'On-line Payee' - something quite different. That's just one example of many. Also, I found it extremely tedious, bordering on impossible, to set up new categories and subcatagories of payments. On the other hand, Quicken has a lot of fancy bells and whistles I'll never use, and I doubt that most customers will, either. Since I have a Mac now, I obviously can't go back to MIcrosoft Money, but there's gotta be something out there that's better-and cheaper--than Quicken, i.e., anything! Maybe it just got fat and lazy over the years -- but whatever the reason, don't even THINK about buying it.

"Causes more work than it saves.", Quicken 2004 came as part of the software package on my iBook. I tried to set up my accounts but I found the user inferface baffeling and difficult to use. Worse yet it seemed to crash quite frequently. As for linking to accounts online, it does not seem to support Ameritrade brokerage accounts.

"DON'T BUY THIS PRODUCT!!", I switched from Windows to Mac about six months ago. I LOVE my Mac, but I absolutely HATE Quicken 2004 for Mac. It's full of strange bugs, lacks many of the features of its Windows counterpart, and, worst of all, Intuit customer support is completely clueless about how to help me with any of this when I call them. The online Help feature is worthless, too. It tells you to do things you either can't do, or that don't work. It's awful. I wouldn't recommend this to my worst enemy.

"Made for Mac Users", i've been a faithful mac user since the first one came out.
I could never understand quicken (too complicated and boring).
My needs are simple I need to figure out how much i make and
determine where it goes. i have two kids so i need to save money for college and retirement. there isn't much left over for stock, mutual funds and bonds. if you want an intuitive, colorful web-based personal financial software...i strongly suggest www.moneypants.com

Read this reviews before You buy...

"ITS A DISGRACE!", Beware of this program! Particularly if you are switching from the PC version which is much more advanced and accurate. This program has TONS of glaring problems that become apparent shortly after running the program. I can't understand how in the world it got off the market because of glaring and obvious nature of the problems that would make all other software companies stop production and send it back-for example, it quickly mixes up dates, consistently mixes up the positive or negative signs like of a credit card balance, and will crash on a whim. Basically it is pitiful alternative to the PC version.

I feel cheated that I am forced to use this software as there is no alternative for the MAC. Intuit be WARNED. YOU WILL LOOSE NEARLY THE ENTIRE MARKET SHARE OF FINANCIAL INTERNET SOFTWARE PRODUCT LINE WHEN A DECENT COMPETATOR COMES OUT!

To Macintosh: Where in the world is your answer to this. People would love an alternative built in the I Life series.

To Microsoft: Its yours for the taking. I would buy it tomorrow as anything has to be better than this.

"Buggy and cumbersome - Need an alternative", after days of trying to get this software to work as expected, i'm ready to return it. i even bought a book to see if i was doing something wrong. the book is written for the Windows version and apparently is completely different. downloading data from Bank of America is very buggy. (not the fault of BofA, the data is clean, Quicken mixes up the records, wrong dates, changes amounts and titles, assigns strange categories, etc.) their support was completely unresponsive. their help files didnt address the issues. if this is your first time using financial software, there is no good way to get old information in. wish MS Money was available for Mac. really wish Apple would write an alternative. feel trapped with Quicken because there is no real competition.

"Do NOT BUY or BE SORRY!", Having been a loyal user of Quicken 98 and 2000 since 1996, it was logical to upgrade when I switched to OSX. This product could not be more screwed up. Entries are mysteriously lost and duplicated. Reconciling does not work at all as numerous entries are not recognized, making accounts appear out of balance. And so on. After hours of trying to figure out what "I" was doing wrong, I went onto Intuit website only to find out that this (and more issues) are common problems. My solution for now is to go back to Quicken 2000 and launch with OS9 (major pain, but better than having consistently unreliable software/financial data). As soon as a comparable product is available for Mac I will switch. Unless you want to spend countless hours rebuilding your data, DO NOT BUY. Any review supporting this product could only be written by an Intuit executive or major shareholder. I've never been compelled to write a product review before, but this product is SO BAD, and Intuit is so unresponsive, it was my only option.

"The patch more than corrects all of the problems", Admittedly, the initial release of this was a bit buggy, but after installing the patch updater, everything works exactly as expected and advertised!

"Buggy and kludgy, but what choice do we have?", I almost regret going back to a Mac... Intuit has not been kind to their Apple userbase in recent years. I was glad to find that data transfer from Windows was not a huge problem (I had read the horror stories.) Day-to-day use, though, has been far from pleasurable. The user interface is horrible; for starters it doesn't even remember window positions when I re-open the program. Seemingly basic graphs come up with no data; attempting to download transactions results in errors every time. (Not my bank's fault... works fine on Windows.) And, to top things off, the program crashes 8 times out of 10 when I use it.

I never thought I'd say it, but I wish MS would port Money to the Mac or that someone else would step up. Is it just me, or do the 'works great no problem' reviews have the stench of shameless plugs by owners/shareholders?