Read our full Countabout review or visit Countabout.Welcome to Softwarer - Quicken 2004 Basic for PC & Mac, Windows, OSX, Linux. I have hesitated because from what I have heard, Quicken Essentials is useless, and Quicken 2007 was not compatible until recently. Sadly for me, on Quicken's site, it states that 'File conversion is not possible for Quicken 2004 for Mac and prior versions. File conversion is only possible for Quicken for Mac 2005, 2006, 2007'.Intuit has finally dropped the subscription fee on Quicken Online, its Web-based financial software that competes with Mint, Geezeo, Buxfer, and Wesabe.Devoted Quicken users like me, though, will need more capabilities (like bill paying and support for complex investment transactions) before we can make the transition, and the public at large has yet to be convinced that these online financial data storehouses can be trusted.A quick snapshot of your cashflow (2007 version of Quicken Online)See also: Quicken Beam: Your finances made cute.There's more online financial news coming tomorrow morning from the Finovate conference. Basic budgeting features, done well. Easy import from alternatives like Mint and Quicken.
![]() ![]() ![]() UPDATE as of October 28, 2010: This has been updated significantly recently and I have not had time to look it over, but from the reviews I've seen so far, they have made a lot of great updates. It uses tags instead of categories like Quicken The comments below were based on the beta version back in 2009:- no iPhone app yet + allows for split transactions + Works with many banks directly (BECU-Yes) and downloads directly + Scheduled transactions show up in the register and Control-click gives the option to Pay Now which then lets the amount change the running balanace (VERY NICE) - Car loans that were downloaded from a bank (BECU) got placed under Lines of Credit instead of Loans and there is no way to change it + I can merge already entered transactions with BECU's downloaded transactions simply by dropping them on top of each other Export data into a tax file format and generating tax summary reports. Manually edit investment holdings and balances, and accounts not automatically connected. Is there a super disk utility repair for macRequires Leopard or later version of OS X the reports would not be all that accurate since I don't believe split transactions are possible+ works well with my Fujitsu scanner NeatWorks+ Works well with my Fujitsu scanner iCash 5.1Review - does not do split transactions easily (if at all) - no iPhone app - lame GUI Squirrel 0.7.1 keeps track of receipts and lets you categorize them somewhat Quicken Essentials Reviews 2014 For Free So YouI know some companies have used it for accounting,Though it's ostensibly a checkbook app. But I don't know if they've improved its reportingAbilities yet. It was About.com's 2011 Readers' Choice for Mac finance apps.If you are into steep learning curves, and ugly interfaces, there'sAlways GnuCash. - Requires one's banking login and password to do transaction downloads using their inbuilt browser (can that be trusted?) - allows for split transactions but the register just shows them as colors and not categories (but if you print the register, the category titles do appear) - no reporting features at all that are printable and barely any that are viewable (see small 3 staggered lines icon in bottom banner) - all you can print is a copy of the account's register - cannot keep track of IRS-related info (and even if it did, there are no reports that would be useful to use at tax time) - doesn't allow for bi-weekly or twice a month transactions Checkbook Pro 2.0.2+ has tax-deductible feature for all transactions but only for the main transaction, not available in the split view so, for example, sales tax cannot be marked as deductible and the rest of the transaction as not deductible + allows for numerous types of accounts and you can specify the default type of transaction which is cool + has a backup feature + has a password protection feature + will import (I need to test this feature out to see how well it works with Quicken data) - won't allow me to move transactions from one account to another when I make a data entry mistake (which unfortunately does happen from time to time) - limited reporting feature - it does NOT allow you to select one category and get a print out of only those transactions (which I need when it comes time to do taxes) + nice scheduling feature that allows one to look ahead up to 90 days in advance and it prompts you for all scheduled transactions Online optionsI found Billing & Invoicing sites on a recent blog for designers:Billing Boss is a free online invoicing app and is a simple payment processing system on smartphones.Harvest is a gorgeous looking invoice app which handles invoicing and time tracking as well.For an extensive review of this famous invoicing app please visit “ Easy Time Tracking and Invoicing with FreshBooks”WorkingPoint is a pit stop for your all your business management needs and we have reviewed it here.FreeAgent is a simplified yet powerful accounting app and you can read our coverage of the app here.Buddi is a simple, free, cross-platform app. it offers a PocketMoney Lite for free so you can try it out first+ iPhone app $5.99 and nice sync capability + Works with BECU (but requires login and password) - Only allows checking, savings, credit cards and investment type accounts - there's no account for cash, loans, etc.
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