And new users tend to not care about the poor quality and problems of the past. Particularly young new users, but that does not make the poor quality, failed promises, and lack of features any less real.
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Quicken to Double Mac Engineering Team to Finally Improve OS X Version
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And new users tend to not care about the poor quality and problems of the past. Particularly young new users, but that does not make the poor quality, failed promises, and lack of features any less real.
I have been using Quicken for Windows for years, having switched from the Mac version. I use quicken every day to check the balances and write checks. The checks come from the bank and there are no postage costs nor service charges. iBank may be great for reviewing your checkbook and investments, but you can't write checks from it. If Quicken for the Mac can match the windows version I will be very pleased.
The good news: Quicken is hiring additional people to improve their product on Mac.
The bad news: VMware recently fired their entire Fusion team.
So, for people in your situation - the overall end result is not likely to be an improvement.
Have quicken 2015, guess I'll wait for quicken 2018 to see if there are any improvements to the software.
Quoting your post because it needs to be repeated. Everyone on the first page or two of comments whining about QuickBooks this, QuickBooks that, was making my head spin. Thank you.
I'd love for Quicken to be great again. There really is a need. And a lot of people don't want all of their financials in one central cloud location for hackers to attack like a honey pot.
I worry it's too late, at least for me. After a decade of waiting and being frustrated, I've given up having it. I own Quicken 2016, and it's a good start, but I don't really use it anymore. I've simply gotten used to not having an integrated, single place to manage finances.
Maybe I'll get back into using Quicken again if they release a full-featured version. Until then, I'm not going to pay for upgrade after upgrade until they get it right. Intuit ripped me off for years selling me glorified bug fixes—and now my business uses non-Intuit products. No point rewarding bad behavior.
Good luck to the new Quicken team. I hope you deliver.
I worry it's too late, at least for me. After a decade of waiting and being frustrated, I've given up having it. I own Quicken 2016, and it's a good start, but I don't really use it anymore. I've simply gotten used to not having an integrated, single place to manage finances.
Maybe I'll get back into using Quicken again if they release a full-featured version. Until then, I'm not going to pay for upgrade after upgrade until they get it right. Intuit ripped me off for years selling me glorified bug fixes—and now my business uses non-Intuit products. No point rewarding bad behavior.
Good luck to the new Quicken team. I hope you deliver.
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[doublepost=1457373037][/doublepost]I'd go back to QuickBooks Pro if they had something ready this year and kept the cost reasonably low.
[doublepost=1457373037][/doublepost]I'd go back to QuickBooks Pro if they had something ready this year and kept the cost reasonably low.
Seems silly to wait, since new features are supposed to be free until 2019?
Or perhaps that promise isn't worth anything now since intuit sold the software?
I just went with iBank. It's a little rough, but it gets the job done. Recently renamed to Banktivity or something... for whatever reason.
....but far from matured. I can't believe they renamed it BANKTIVITY.
Sounds like a nativity scene where there is a crib with money and everybody else worshiping it
Too much non keyboard interaction needed for my taste.
Yeah, renaming it to Banktivity is funny
I agree that less mouse interaction would speed things up. The only other things i wish for would be a preference to turn off "Create Import Rule" so i don't have to keep unchecking it, and different colours / design / aesthetic for the report lists so i can more easily tell whats going on/ what category Im looking at.
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You sir are getting reamed.
The UI is a bit clunky, but it's functional. I have to QIF import from my bank, but that's not a big deal. I wish that the auto category assignments were specific to a file rather than global to the install (e.g. business and home files use different categories).
Paying bills from it doesn't matter to me - I always push money from my bank via their website (never let anyone pull it).
But yeah, the name change is just dumb.
Ynab. The new one downloads your transactions and will soon get all of the features of the old ynab 4. No longer a need for quicken
Intuit announced last week that it has sold Quicken to private equity firm H.I.G. Capital, which plans to double the personal finance tool's Mac engineering team in an effort to improve the 33-year-old software. The investment group aims to bring Quicken for Mac closer in line with the Windows version.
"On the Mac team, we're bringing in a new product manager starting this coming Monday," said Quicken head Eric Dunn. "We have plans within the calendar year to double the engineering team, so we can do the work we need to do to bring Mac closer to the feature set of Windows over the next quarters and years."
Quicken is the most popular personal finance software in the United States, but the Mac version has historically been lacking compared to its Windows counterpart. Dunn is confident that the software "will thrive with increased investment" and "become great again" under the new investment group's leadership.Quicken 2016 for Mac, the latest version of the software, is available as a one-time purchase for $74.99.
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So, as someone who just has a few checking and savings accounts, is the any reason to use Quicken instead of my bank's software? USAA has pretty good budget and category tracking, and it imports and tracks accounts from other institutions (credit cards, TSP, etc.). I'm just curious to know what others are looking for when they purchase Quicken.
I used Quicken many, many years ago, and for my needs, I don't see a reason to go back.
I used Quicken many, many years ago, and for my needs, I don't see a reason to go back.
Too little too late, fellas. We gave up on the software years ago due to poor Mac support, and now we have alternatives. And, for QuickBooks, forget that!
The big thing for me is the forecasted daily balance of my checking account. My recurring bills (and deposits) are setup within Quicken, so I can look 30-45-60 days in the future to see what my daily checking account balance will be.
I also like how it's the long-term repository of all of my transactions. I recently bought a new house and unexpectedly turned my old house into a rental. For taxes, I needed to figure out the amount of the major improvements I did over the last decade. None of my checking/saving/credit card account online websites let me search back more than a year or two. It was great to be able to dive into Quicken and pull those transactions up quickly.
With Quicken 2016, I can finally (again) do my online bill pays directly from within Quicken. I can do this a lot faster in Quicken than I can online with my banks website.
I am looking fondly at my Microsoft Money 2002! It died ~10 years ago, support is spotty to none, but, I can still download transactions into it, and keep accurate balances. I write "checks" at the bill pay section of my bank - no charge too!
Maybe, MS Money should become like iTunes, cross-platform and free. That will squash the entire Intuit industry, except the tax filing aspect.
C'mon, Microsoft, take a page out of Apple's software blitz that killed a lot of your music versions. Do you even have one?
Maybe, MS Money should become like iTunes, cross-platform and free. That will squash the entire Intuit industry, except the tax filing aspect.
C'mon, Microsoft, take a page out of Apple's software blitz that killed a lot of your music versions. Do you even have one?