Q: best financial software for mac

FWIW:

https://qlc.intuit.com/questions/805612-has-the-new-quicken-mac-beta-started

Thanks for that information about Quicken 2014 beta testing.  I will hope that Intuit really offers a successful package, but if I am disappointed I will continue with Quicken 2007 for Intel.

It looks like this will be a choice between iBank 5 and Quicken Mac 2014 once the latter is released, presumably this quarter. See this thread: https://qlc.intuit.com/users/345382-johnhardt. I'm still struggling with a Windows virtual machine and looking forward to abandoning it. One important decision point will be the cloud encryption design.

essandess wrote:

 

See this thread: https://qlc.intuit.com/users/345382-johnhardt.

I think that link requires sign-in to be able to read the content.

Woops. Link: https://qlc.intuit.com/questions/783111-update-11-from-quicken-marcus

Here is a viable alternative to running Quicken on a virtual machine and updating Windows: use wine. You can download wine from their site, or compile it yourself using the macports version with Xcode (free App store download). You'll also need X11 XQuartz running

Once you have wine, insert the Quicken install CD and run the installer from wine. This will install the qw.exe windows executable in your home directory under ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files . Then you just run Quicken from your OS X Terminal command line. Online updates and everthing works as X11 windows.

This is what the Macports commands look like:

sudo port selfupdate

sudo port install wine-devel winetricks

export DISPLAY=:0.0

xeyes &  # test if X11 is running properly

/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Quicken/qw.exe

Here's a simple shell script to run Quicken from the command line:

vi ~/bin/qwineken

#!/bin/sh

# Run Quicken from wine

/opt/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program' 'Files/Quicken/qw.exe

chmod a+x ~/bin/qwineken

I spent way too long waiting for Intuit to introduce a decent Mac product the first time around. To me, this sounds like more vaporware.

msrdnr wrote:

 

I spent way too long waiting for Intuit to introduce a decent Mac product the first time around...

So what did you do?

A 2014 version of Moneydance is out.  It has gotten very little press and does not appear to be the version cited in TOP 10 REVIEWS.

Here is a listing of what's new: https://infinitekind.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201036686-What-s-new-in-Money dance-2014-

msrdnr wrote:

I spent way too long waiting for Intuit to introduce a decent Mac product the first time around. To me, this sounds like more vaporware.

Hmmm! I continued to run Q '07 on Snow Leopard and had no waiting time. When Q '07 for Lion popped up, I run it on all four OSs: SL through Mavericks. No waiting at all here.

In all fairness to the poster, there was no Quicken available for the Mac between the time that Lion was released (circa Summer 2011) and when Intuit released Quicken for Lion (Intel) back in February 2012.  While that may seem like a short period of time in retrospect, since there was little pre-announcement by Intuit that they would release such a product; it seemed like, once again, Intuit had abandoned the Mac market.

I suspect the poster is expressing his frustration over the fact that years have gone by and the PC version of Quicken still out-shines the Mac version.

MlchaelLAX wrote:

In all fairness to the poster, there was no Quicken available for the Mac between the time that Lion was released (circa Summer 2011) and when Intuit released Quicken for Lion (Intel) back in February 2012.

Yes there was, Q '07 which worked w/Snow Leopard. jumping on the Lion bandwangon w/o retaining a bootable SL volume was the mistake. Not everything Apple does is in the user's interest.

You are missing the point:  it is not about a stale version of Quicken, still working on a PPC Mac or an Intel Mac running Rosetta!

Quicken 2007 PPC was written and released 6 years before Quicken for Lion was released in 2012.  Many consider that time span as "too long" to wait for Intuit to release an updated version for the Mac; especially when they were consistently updating the PC version.

And at the end of the day, their "updated" version was only updated to run on Intel; it is STILL Quicken 2007!

baltwo wrote:

 

Not everything Apple does is in the user's interest.

You miss the point there, too!  Apple gave us the same time span to move our software to the Intel platform (about 6 years) as they did when they removed the Classic Environment as an module for the original OS X releases through PPC Tiger (6 years).

They cannot inovate and continue to be compatible with post-6 year old software at the same time.  Everyone has the alternative that you promote: keep an old Mac functional to, in your case, run Snow Leopard; and I am sure you have another old Mac that runs your Classic software, too!

Lastly, when my iMac G5 died and I purchased a new Mac Mini in August, 2011 that only booted Lion, how was I supposed to be able to keep a bootable Snow Leopard volume? I was not about to purchase another old Mac that could fail without notice again!

You are looking at global users problems from the miopic point of view of only your situation. I am glad it works for you!

No one  has mentioned MYOB.com.au I use MYOB for Windows, and now run it in Parallels W7, but they do have a native Mac version. I think a free eval version can be downloaded from their site.

I am not endorsing MYOB, but it is the most popular SMB program in Australia.

I'll post what I did for what it's worth. 

Just bought my first Macbook Pro, was using a Dell PC from 2004. I was using Quicken Deluxe 2012. I am not a technical person by any stretch.

I wanted Quicken for my new Macbook and did a bunch of research. I thought Quicken Mac 2007 would be the answer. I downloaded for the $15 and did not like it. It did not support Express Web Connect to download transactions for my accounts like the 2012 PC version did. Not wanting to pay some of my banks for Direct Connect, I searched on.  Tried trials of Moneydance and iBank. Both you have to pay for Direct Connect with the Finacial Institutions, or go into each website and download transactions, then import into their respective program. Too time consuming. iBank offers basically paying them for what Quicken does with Express Web Connect for free.

aaaargh.

I bought a Macbook to join the iPhone and iPad I already have. This was supposed to be easy.

Started looking into virtualization.  Read about Parallels and VmWare Fusion.  They looked like and option, but I need to buy them plus a Windows license.  Decent enough reviews for both I was getting close to picking one.  Then I read about Crossover for Mac.  I guess it is similar to Parallels and VMW Fusion, but you don't need to buy Windows. I really don't understand all three. 

So I have downloaded the trial version of Crossover for free and installed Quicken Deluxe 2012 with it. I moved my QDF file from my PC over, crossed fingers and voila! It opened, it looks a little different than on the PC. Not quite as nice, fonts and colors mostly. I tried one step update and boom, it crashed.  I reopened and tried one step update and it worked. I closed, reopened and tried one step update again three times now and it works.  I will buy the full version of Crossover when the trial is over, assuming Quicken keeps working. I will use this until Quicken Marcus says the new Quicken for Mac is coming out.

Not holding my breath for that.