[Macworld]

Post your comments for Quicken Essentials get recourse with iBank update's import feature here

[AndrewRodney]

In the 80's and maybe early 90's, Quicken was a wonderful product. It evolved into one of the worst examples of Mac software and worst treatment of Mac customers ever. Anything iBank can do to siphon off poor Quicken on Mac customers the better. I made the switch about two years ago (yes, I'm a masochist). IF iBank could now spend their resources working on the reporting engine, the only functionality that Quicken was better at, I'd really be happy. Quicken/Intuit = evil software.

[palane]

I won't go as far as evil, just as far as milking its customer base for cash while providing lousy products.

I had my financials in a spreadsheet and decided to go to Quicken in 2001, after having enjoyed the application quite some time before. It wouldn't run under OS X and I didn't want to pay the upgrade right then, so I"d run it under classic. Then it took out Classic and nearly my entire computer with it. It was some sort of date error. Fortunately, the computer booted from an external CD and so I just had to reset the start-up disk.

I've been using Excel ever since. I'm tempted to check out iBank, though Excel gives me a lot of control over how I use and display my data. Plus, somebody will always be able to read that file.

BB

[guod]

But, can you get your data out of iBank?

I cannot and support will only help me if I send them my data. This is not safe nor is it practical.

[jtastor]

I'm confused! My wife (a financial wizard) was stuck with Quicken 2007 for a long time. Quicken Essentials was useless to her. We tried iBank and found it lacking in some areas.

Finally Intuit released Quicken 2012, and we snapped it up...it does everything she wants, with zero problems.

My confusion is: why is Quicken 2012 not mentioned in this article?

[AndrewRodney]

>>But, can you get your data out of iBank?

Export supports QIF or TXF

[iwbyte]

MoneyDance works great for me - it imported from Quicken Essentials last year, and has a great iOS app as well.

@jtastor - Quicken 2012 isn't mentioned because its not a Mac program. If you're running it, you must be using some type of windows emulation software.

[iBookinLA]

Intuit did release a Lion-compatible version of Quicken 2007 for Intel Macs last year, shortly before Mountain Lion was released if I recall correctly. I'm using it with ML on a MacBook Pro (early 2011.) So Quicken Essentials is NOT the only Quicken option anymore for Mac users.

It IS the 2007 software, so any embedded tax estimators are worthless. But with 10+ years of investment data, I found it easier to stay within the Quicken ecosystem. YMMV.

[AndrewRodney]

Yes, they finally did offer a non Rosetta version, at a cost ($15 I think). Another way to rip you off. NO new functionality, no bug fixes, just the ability to run Native.

[Rxabes]

Or, you can pay $15 and download Quicken 2007, which simply updated Q2006.

[guod]

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>>But, can you get your data out of iBank? Export supports QIF or TXF

If that works for you great. I did not work for me. The export (either type) had far to many errors.

[iluomo_MW]

There are so many people who positively savage Intuit and I understand... to an extent. But I tried everything under the sun, including iBank, and I found them very sorely lacking in simple features that Quicken 2007 has (e.g. basic reporting, ease of moving around the program, etc.).

So I am very, very grateful Intuit released the updated version of Q2007. I use it on a daily basis and it is a great product for me. I gladly paid $15 for it and would have paid more. I could care less about "new" features. This is finance. I don't need it to be flashy. I need it to do what I need it to do and Q2007 does just that... more than good enough. I've even started using the scheduled transaction after years of ignoring it and it's actually pretty useful.

Rail on against Intuit if you like. I, for one, hope they will continue to support Q2007.

[generdude]

I'm using Mountain Lion, 2012 iMac. Quicken Essentials does not have automatic backup as far as I can tell. When I try to Back Up to my MacBook Pro, I end up saving the Package Contents folder, which doesn't contain the file. I am only able to Back Up to the same computer that I'm using and also to a very old iomega external hard drive. And when I back up to Dropbox, it saves fine within this same computer, the iMac, but when I go online to Dropbox.com I get that same useless Packages folder. I had no problems with Q2007, but I can't save it in Mountain Lion. I hope I can back it up with Time Machine, but I still want to save it to Dropbox.

[georgeny]

Switched to Ibank when Mac removed Rosetta and never been happier. Had Quicken records back to 1992 imported virtually with only minor error. Learning curve was large but since Ibank utilizes mac program attributes I find it far superior. A search to find an entry in an account is instantaneous. Set a a report to do global search and again once you know how to work the program instantaneous results.

Ibank using never looked back. Mac users after 20 years with MSFT, never looked back. Only serious gamers would miss MSFT and only non-serious finance record keepers will miss Quicken. Ibank if you learn it far superior to Quicken and from all I have heard anything including a note pad better than Essentials.