Quicken for MAC

You might look at Moneydance. It does operate differently and does not have all the wizards that Quicken (or Money) has.

If your Financial Institution supports Direct Connect, you will be able to download files automatically into Moneydance (also Bill Pay if available). What confuses a lot of people is that it does not have an Express Web Connect feature that Quicken has - but rest assured that those accounts can still be manually downloaded from the web and imported into the program. If you plan to convert your Quicken file, be sure to read on how to do this before you plunge into it.

They offer a free (basically unlimited) trial - unlimited in that you can import as many transactions as you would like including converting your Quicken file = but limited to 100 manually entered transactions.

I have been using this since February 2010 and I am pleased with the product. I have stopped running Quicken in parallel.

Oilcan

-----Original Message----- From: John Morris [mailto: snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com] Posted At: Saturday, July 10, 2010 3:43 AM Posted To: alt.comp.software.financial.quicken Conversation: Quicken for MAC Subject: Quicken for MAC

Does anyone have a good alternative for Quicken for Mac users?

Thanks, John

Er....Quicken for Windows? Doesn't the Mac offer an option to run Windows as well now?

You still need to buy, install and run Windows on the Mac. Why carry that baggage?

Thanks, Oilcan.

Have you heard anything about iBank?

John

Half of me says you're baiting me and I shouldn't bother replying, the other half (well, 51 %) says, sure - go for it.

The reason is that Mac software (read: Quicken for Mac) often pales in comparison in features and support to Windows apps for the same product from the same vendor (if a particular vendor indeed supports it at all on multiple platforms). Apple realized it when they offered the ability to run Windows on their platform. This is just a fact of life, and I'm not going to get into a religious war over this. I freely admit that Apple has many advantages over Windows.

However, consumer acceptance of computer platforms, for better or worse, is driven largely by both price and available applications, not always the best hardware or software design that might indeed run on more elegant platforms. Time and time again, this can be seen in previous technology examples; Beta vs. VHS being one famous example. One can argue that both Apples and Linux are better choices for hardware and software platforms, but again, that boat has already sailed.

So, the BEST good alternative to Quicken for the Mac as I said was Quicken for Windows. Now, of course, there are other monetary-type programs such as Q that do indeed run on the Mac, but they aren't, IMNSHO, 'good' alternatives for Q for Mac. Indeed, their features may be richer, but the comparison was asked specifically about Q for Windows.

The OP never restricted his question to exclude Windows apps that can run on the Mac.

On Linux, I have Wine, a Windows "Emulator". Windows not required. Isn't there something like that for Macs?

No. The options to run windows on a mac all require purchasing a full copy windows.

I agree with your comments. Many software companies have put limited amounts of money into their Mac counterparts. Intuit is guilty of this for both Quicken as well as QuickBooks. They *have* recently started to put money into their products but it will take a few years before they catch up to the windows version. Mac users are left to deal with lousy software or to run windows on their mac in order get decent software.

Nope, the same options are available on the Mac. Crossover Office runs Quicken fine, or you could try the freebie Darwine. Both are based on WINE.

Cheers, Ian

Learn something new everyday. I know about WINE but did not know that they made one for the Mac. Is there a list of programs that Crossover Office or Darwine run without problems? I think a list used to exist for WINE.

Can't seem to find one for Darwine, I imagine it will be the same as for WINE.

For Crossover Office, there's:

I tried Quicken 2002 UK and seemed to work fine, but I had a spare Windows license so went VMware-wards in the end.

Cheers, Ian

Thanks for the link. I had looked at Wine last year to use with Linux. Most of the software I use (QuickBooks, Quicken & Peachtree) are only at a Bronze level so stopped looking at that option.

I'll have to see if I have an available XP license floating around here and go the VMware route.

I know you mentioned XP. But I just want to have it noted in this thread that, starting with Vista, Microsoft started to introduce restrictions on running Windows in a VM unless you purchased a certain [expensive] version. I am not sure of the details, though.

If you want to run in XP mode on a win7 machine you have to have Win7 Professional or Ultimate. Here's more info here: