I recently bought Quicken for Mac at an Apple Store. I had a Windoze copy a few years back, and balanced my checkbook for a while, but never used any advanced nor on line features in it.
I'm pretty disappointed with the software. I can't figure out how to track an asset account as simple as a vehicle (with depreciation) via a register as it seems you must. (and stamp collection, coin collection, etc. which can be assigned a fixed value at a point in time... to be remembered and tracked and plotted...) I posted here and no one replied, so I assume it is a lost cause.
I put some stock portfolios in, and try as I may with on line updating of prices and such, I can't get any decent track graphs of the stock portfolio over time.
I see that it can't handle savings bonds by reading here, and that 401k and 403b accounts don't have much positive said about them.
With all the complaints here about how brain dead Quicken is, I am ready to throw it away. It is sad that I've heard this name for so many years and the software is so poor. I'd rather give up all on line connections for something that works, and works how I would like it to.
I guess I'll have to go back to my calc (OpenOffice) spreadsheets to keep sensible track of my net worth over time, and with projections. I have to put in monthly or quarterly statements manually, but at least I know I'll get it right and what it is doing.
Anyway, as a big fan of Open Source software, I just discovered gnucash. I'd welcome any comments from people who have looked at it and like or don't like it. Particularly the Mac Leopard port. The price is right, and it has to be better than making my own spreadsheets.
Thanks, John