Q: best financial software for mac

The flaw in your argument is the word COMPATIBLE.

I'm a long time user of quicken on a PC.  I recently moved to a MBP and installed quicken essentialls.  That lasted a couple of hours.  Asked for a refund and purchased quicken 2013 instead, which was installed on my MBP via virtualbox.

Why didn't you use Quicken 2007?

Essentials is awful and I did not suggest that you, or anyone else use it.

George Chapman wrote:

 

I use Mac Quicken 2007 which was updated a year ago to be used with Lion & Mountain Lion.

Hi George,

I have Quicken 2007, purchased in mid 2008. Now that I have a new machine with Mountain Lion, it won't run. How can I find the update you mention? I've been to Quicken's web site and don't see it.

Thanks!

Intuit does not make it easy:

http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp

Thank you MIchael.

Found and downloaded Quicken 16.1.2 and YNAB. I'll give them a whirl.

Quicken's opening message said they removed features. Any idea which ones?

You're welcome!

Having a history of only using Quicken on Apple computers, I do not know what features are missing.

I don't know what has been eliminated but it works for me. I notice they promote Quicken Essentials on the website. This is the worst software ever written. Give your download a chance. It should work for you.

This is also an Apple version, but it's two steps back from the "latest" QI2007, since others report problems with those upgrades. So when I got that message, I was opening a file last run under QI2007 purchased in mid 2008.

For others who may need it, I found that software here:

https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/42231/quicken-2007#ratings

My needs aren't extensive. I just need the register feature for various accounts, reconcilliation, some scheduling of transactions, Quick Report (I use this one a lot!), budget, and the ability to run occasional reports for things like money I spent for work.

One more question, if anyone knows: there was no cost for the new version of QI2007 that runs under 10.8. I'm assuming this is because I already own QI2007, and this is just a fix for the 10.8 compatibility problem. But I would like to be certain that this is the case and that I don't need to somehow pay for this upgrade. I believe Macupdate to be a repudible, law abiding site. Any advice is appreciated.

Edited: And now I see a $14.99 "shareware" fee on the download page, but don't see any way to pay. I'm also skeptical that Quicken is shareware, so I'm beginning to doubt this site.

I'm using Quicken 2007 Version 16.1.4 Build 23.880.400 and it works fine with ML. It did cost about $15.

Larry Israel wrote:

 

One more question, if anyone knows: there was no cost for the new version of QI2007 that runs under 10.8. I'm assuming this is because I already own QI2007, and this is just a fix for the 10.8 compatibility problem. But I would like to be certain that this is the case and that I don't need to somehow pay for this upgrade. I believe Macupdate to be a repudible, law abiding site. Any advice is appreciated.

 

Edited: And now I see a $14.99 "shareware" fee on the download page, but don't see any way to pay. I'm also skeptical that Quicken is shareware, so I'm beginning to doubt this site.

It's $14.99 and it is not shareware.

If you are concerned why don't you download it from Intuit

http://quicken.intuit.com/personal-finance-software/quicken-2007-osx-lion.jsp

That is the link I was just going to post. As Csound1 said try it.

Intuit no longer offers the version I'm using. So I don't want to download from them, but I see I can also buy it on DVD. That should make it all ligit.

Thanks for the good advice!