Here’s the full list of financial apps, sorted by number of votes. Apps that received only a handful of votes have skewed weighted averages, of course, so we also counted the raw number of votes each app received. When it came time to evaluate the results, we calculated the weighted average for each app, assigning a weight of 1 (Avoid it) through 5 (Can’t live without it) for each the five choices - the best weighted average possible is thus 5. If those two don’t float your boat, check out other apps that scored well in the ratings, but didn’t collect quite as many votes (such as SEE Finance, Moneywiz, and CheckBook/CheckBook Pro).īe sure to look at the full results and read the comments on the original article, since there’s a lot of useful information there that we couldn’t convey here.ĭon’t forget to read Michael Cohen’s articles on “ Finding a Replacement for Quicken” (5 August 2011) and “ Follow-up to Finding a Replacement for Quicken” (20 September 2011), which helped readers understand their needs and choose from the available alternatives.When looking at the top Quicken alternatives by weighted average and vote count, Moneydance (the top rating, second-most votes) and Banktivity (most votes, third-best rating) are the clear favorites.Still, some have found alternatives to the Quicken quagmire. “You can’t do a good evaluation of any financial management application without really using it for some significant time period,” he said, “and meanwhile you want to keep your data entry current in your current application, doubling the time and effort spent doing your bookkeeping while also doing new appĮvaluation.” Despite the extra work, he continues to explore alternatives (particularly SEE Finance), as he’s worried about Quicken’s long-term viability due to Intuit’s plan to sell it (see “ Intuit to Sell off Quicken,” 24 August 2015). Quicken 2007 user Paul Brown voiced his reluctance in testing other finance apps. To paraphrase the band Chicago, Quicken can be a hard habit to break. While few apps elicit the level of contempt and resignation as the most recent Quicken editions, Quicken 2007 finished near the top for both vote count and ratings. We found that the landscape for finance apps is still dominated by Intuit’s Quicken, but there are several alternatives that our readers recommend wholeheartedly.Īll four versions of Quicken in our survey made the top ten in terms of vote count, with varying ratings.
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We asked you to rate the Mac personal finance software that’s near and dear to your heart (or that had let you down), and nearly 700 TidBITS readers answered our survey of 34 apps with close to 1,400 votes (see “ Vote for Your Favorite Mac Personal Finance App,” 17 February 2016).
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