Opinions, please: Money or Quicken?

[DP]

Have worked with both QuickBooks and Quicken and, for various reasons, I am really coming to hate both of them. Since I've got XP Pro loaded thru Parallels I am thinking of trying Money as an alternative. I have no working knowledge of Money but am totally out of patience with Intuit and its products. What are your recommendations?

[BigGuynRusty]

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Strange!

BGnR

[Chupa Chupa]

The only program worse than Quicken is M$ Money.

[DP]

BGnR-I noticed it posted before I posted it!

[BigGuynRusty]

[quote DP]BGnR-I noticed it posted before I posted it!
It was weird, I apologize for cluttering up your thread!

BGnR

[AlphaDog]

My husband tried Money, and it was a total pain in the a$$. We finally had to wipe the drive in order to get rid of all of the remnants of it. It seemed to insinuate itself into everything, and we couldn't even figure out how to override it. Blech.

[StingMe]

I've used Money for years and maybe it is just because I'm used to it but I think it clobbers Quicken. I find it extremely easy to use and robust - I certainly don't allow M$ access to my accounts for "live" updating or whatever they call it but it fits my needs perfectly and I wish there was a viable Mac alternative with the same feature set. It is about the only reason I fire up my little Win2K VAIO.

[edgarbc1]

ive tried to use quicken, but i always give it up over time...
back to paper and pencil bookkeeping

[msienkiewicz]

I tried Money a few years ago via Virtual PC. As AlphaDog said, it seemed to put its hooks everywhere. It certainly did a lot more hand-holding than Quicken Mac (which doesn't say much)... but you also have to do things the way Money wants to do them. I liked that it could figure out which transactions in different accounts matched up (why can't Quicken do that) but I didn't like the way it handled my 401K account. Of course since I was using VPC it was sloooow and I was just playing with it so I gave up fast.

This would be a good time of year to consider trying it - you may get a really good deal for Money+tax software. (That's how I got mine.) Did you use Windows Quicken or the Mac version? I understand the Windows version has a lot more features than Mac.

[space-time]

try moneydance, last time I looked they offered a 30 day demo

That being said, I never tried it.