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From: John Morris on 10 Jul 2010 06:42 Does anyone have a good alternative for Quicken for Mac users? Thanks, John
From: Oilcan on 10 Jul 2010 11:15 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:jwm1953(a)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
From: Andrew on 10 Jul 2010 11:20 John Morris wrote: > 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? -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Regards - - Andrew
From: John Morris on 11 Jul 2010 11:34 Thanks, Oilcan. Have you heard anything about iBank? John On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:15:33 -0700, "Oilcan" <oilcan(a)nospam.net> wrote: >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:jwm1953(a)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
From: Andrew on 11 Jul 2010 12:00
bjn wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:20:21 -0400, "Andrew" <andrew(a)jkl.com> wrote: > >> John Morris wrote: >>> 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? Half of me says you're baiting me and I shouldn't bother replying, the other half (well, 51 %) says, sure - go for it. <opinion_set_on> 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. <opinion_set_off> The OP never restricted his question to exclude Windows apps that can run on the Mac. -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Regards - - Andrew |