Why I buy this one ?
- Comprehensive personal financial management software created for the Mac
- Track expenses and manage cash; schedule bill paying with iCal
- Save more with outflow management; optimize investments and monitor portfolio
- View complete financial picture in minutes; create visual record of inventory
- Downloading banking, credit card, and investment info directly into Quicken

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What our customer's say!

"Great Application", We have been using Quicken since 1993 to track our personal income, expenses and investments. Currently using Quicken 2006. The application is very stable (never had a crash) and free of bugs. Each revision has added many useful tools. The learning curve is not too steep but, as with any application that does a lot, one has to expect to acquire knowledge of its use. We highly recommend it.

"Why can't there be 0 stars?", I just switched over to the Mac after years on the PC. I own Quicken 2006 for Home and Business for the PC. I also happened to notice that Quicken for the Mac came preinstalled and I thought I would try it out. So I have the product, it was free, and it is terrible.

Quite frankly it DOES NOT WORK. It crashes, refuses to quit unless you Force Quit, and most banks do not support it. That's because Intuit cripples the support and forces banks to buy a "Mac" version of QFX. There is no reason why they need to do this and if you look around the Internet you can find scripts that convert PC QFX files to Mac QFX files.

If you need Quicken, use Boot Camp or Parallels to run Windows and buy the Windows version of Quicken. That software actually works.

Run away.

"Waste of Time and Money", I bought Quicken 2006 and TurboTax 2005 last year to help with my tax preparation (both versions for Mac). After wasting a year entering my finances into Quicken (it won't automatically sync with my bank, HSBC, and the import function is buggy and useless), I discovered that I cannot export information into TurboTax, which is made by the same horrible company, because TurboTax will only accept a file format that Quicken cannot produce.

A total, frustrating waste of time and money. The registration process does not work. The software does not work. The functions that would make you buy the software do not work. Every step of the process is a disaster. Save yourself the hassle and the cash.

"Quick'n the Bin", A very poor product destined for the bin... I do not recommend it...

""Quit" bug in Macintosh 2006 and 2007", With the release of Macintosh 2006, a bug appeared in the key-stroke combination for "Quit." Frankly, it wouldn't quit unless the menu bar was used. I reported this to Quicken, but to no avail. It was not even acknowledged, so I accepted it. It will quit sporadically, but it appears to act as it should for at least a cycle after a check register entry.

Well, I assume the "bug" was extinguished from Quicken 2007-Macintosh, but it is not. Another user has noted this and I feel vindicated! One Quicken representative admitted that he has seen this issue.

This evening a female technical representative called and made an unsupported claim that "John" probably did not understand my allegation despite my email archive. Once again, we went through all the gyrations, but with the same results. That "quit" bug still exists.

I want to touch base with any Mac users with the same experience. Help would be appreciated!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Frustrated!", I bought the newer, better version of Quicken because my 2005 version files were CORRUPT. Well, shortly after I started to enter my new info into 2006 I am sick to find it is CORRUPT. It's not just the money, it's my financial life!!! What now???? Help!!!!

"It will disappoint Macintosh owners.", I'm a software engineer, and I've been a Quicken for Macintosh user for 10 years now, religiously accumulating data on every financial transaction I've performed in the last decade. Quicken 2006 is the fourth release of the program I've used. I use Quicken because I want to track my finances, back in 1995 it was the best choice, and at the time it did what I needed. I stuck with Quicken because it was always easier to upgrade to a new release every 3 years than search for other options, and occasionally I would get a free version when I upgraded my computer. I stayed with Quicken through the years they said they were not going to develop for the Mac platform anymore, and through their return to Macintosh support following the popularity of the iMac.

Quicken has got worse, not better, over the years. Intuit has focused most of their energies towards shiny new features for a dwindling portion of their user base in an attempt to encourage users to upgrade. They neglect the user interface, but more importantly they have introduced bugs in the basic functioning of the program: I was prompted to write this review because their Budgeting functions incorrectly total the budget categories. Yes, I'm talking about a bug in the central goal of the budgeting functions, basic arithmetic. I seriously almost accepted a budget I had written before realizing that it was off by hundreds of dollars per month.

In past releases, I have suffered through UI bugs that make it nigh-impossible to get to information I wanted because of scroll bars that are too small to allow clicking on the correct portions of them. Functions have been unavailable because UI bugs have incorrectly made buttons unclickable. The customer support is terrible. Show-stopper bugs literally take years to be fixed. Many of the things that I want to do habitually -- generate graphs and reports, for example -- are possible but cumbersome and annoying because of the number of windows I need to navigate through to accomplish my goal.

The major development of the last few years, integration with online banks and brokerages, is generally a couple of years behind the PC version. I have *usually* been unable to get information from my accounts using Quicken's new features, even though my bank says that they work with Quicken. When pressed, it is revealed that they don't work with the Macintosh version.

I give the product two instead of one star because it does do the central functions you expect it to, tracking a checkbook for example. Quicken is definitely better than nothing at all. But I've finally decided that it's time for me to choose either MoneyDance or iBank and shift to a new program with developers that are responsive to complaints.

"Giving It One Star Because It Didn't Crash!", I've been an MS Money user for the past decade. I made the switch to Mac this past year. I bought a copy of Quicken 2006 with the hope that it would be as simple and enjoyable to use as other Mac programs. I was surprisingly disappointed.

MS Money is far more intuitive to use than Quicken for Mac. Things seem exceedingly cumbersome to navigate for Quicken. For example, lets say you want to look at a graphical report for an account. You have to go through entirely too many steps to get there. By the time you do, you've forgotten why you went there in the first place.

This is just one example. I gave it a try, didn't like it, and won't recommend it.

If your on a Mac and have a complicated financial profile, like most of us these days, here are other financial management options.

1) Use BootCamp or Parallels, buy a copy of windows and use MS Money.
2) Download other Mac financial software programs such as IBank or MoneyDance.
3) Suffer through this horrible program until they truly commit to the Mac platform and improve its performance.

Final thought: Install the demo and try it out before you buy instead of wasting $70.

"Goodbye 60 bucks", Worthless! Every tool in Quicken is available free on the net (retirement calculators, household expense trackers...) I got it for stock portfolio management, and it fails badly there too. Getting a large, old account up to date is a multi-hour root canal followed by the continuing necessity to manually update from the brokers downloaded transaction history. Not bad you say? What if you have a bunch of stocks that pay dividends..then keeping the cash balance current is a tedious chore. I don't see a single thing this program does well.

"Is there another program for mac out there?", I used Microsoft Money for years, which made me cringe a bit because of my extreme dislike of Microsoft. I finally wised up and switched to mac which led me to quicken. I thought I would like it but it is awful.

I've had crashes, cannot change print settings for reports and the online help is decent but takes forever.

Don't buy this! I'm ready to go back to my checkbook and pen.

Unless there is another program out there that actually does the rudimentary tasks I need!

EDIT:

After posting this review I did the following (this is from my review of Moneydance):

I looked into three options: Liquid Ledger, iBank and Moneydance. After reading all I could I bought iBank and spent three days setting up my accounts and trying to figure it out.

iBank was a huge improvement over Quicken, but there was no tech support, I had troubles printing my accounts (unless I reduced the columns so that I could fit it on a page, but then I couldn't read what was in those columns!) and it just wasn't intuitive enough for me.

I am probably in the intermediate range of computer users, and I feel certain that someone with more experience than myself would find iBank just fine.

Since it wasn't doing what I wanted it to do (or rather, since I couldn't make it do what I wanted it to do) I decided to buy Moneydance and see if it was better. I think it is an oustanding program -- very easy to set up and use. I was able to set up all my accounts in a morning, where in iBank I was still working on the fundamentals at that point in time. In addition, I have been able to easily configure it how I want it to look.

I still have more to learn about Moneydance. The documentation is a bit less than I'd like, but they are working on more lengthy explanations which hopefully will be out shortly. Even with their overly short instructions I have found no roadblocks. I would give it five stars if there were more and better instructions. Like I said, though, that appears to be arriving shortly.

Another benefit is their chat forums where you can leave questions or, as I have done, search for earlier questions about the same issues. It's a great resource and provides access to the company itself since the programmers seem to be the ones monitoring some of the forums.

I really like this product very much. I found it fairly simple to set up (as simple as I would hoped it would be, anyway) and easy to use. It is, to me, a great alternative to Quicken and I'd look into it as an alternative to iBank as well.