Accounting Software by Mac for Mac
Looking for a reliable proven Home or Small Business Accounting Software for a Mac created for MAC by MAC , and use only Trying to stay away from all things MS
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Looking for a reliable proven Home or Small Business Accounting Software for a Mac created for MAC by MAC , and use only Trying to stay away from all things MS
by "Created .. By MAC" you mean created by Apple?
If so, then none exists. Apple does not make any type of accounting software.
Your options are all third party software. I believe Quicken is well regarded.
That I did I found two or three I tried Banktivity 7, on a 30 day trial it had good reviews so I tried it but it locked up the next day wanting Apple internet, unfortunately I was way up on a mountain top and had no internet I put program in the trash for safe keeping, I may try it again? Then I tried Finance 2, it took a bit to get use to, but it has promise it has a 14 day free trial, far better just at the outset than anything from MS, and I haved them all, the mumbers look good, thanks for replying
Apple does make other software. Some examples:
Keynote - similar to PowerPoint
Pages - similar to Microsoft Word
Numbers - similar to Microsoft Excel
Quick Time - multimedia framework software
But accounting is far from Apple's software expertise.
I haven’t used Keynote yet but now I know what it does, I have tried Numbers it looks like a teal good program Excel use to be a good program and then it went bad the best version of Excel for engineers was was Excel 98, Quick Time a very good program,
I have tried Filemaker the dara base program tried creating a data base for the local school district it worked except users had to remember to enter a 0 into a field, of course school teachers couldn’t remember to do that but it almost worked in realtime accounting for multicomputing, Access was ok but MS tried to integrate everything you can’t mix text and numbers with Word and Excel, bad idea, Quicken now wants to store data on the internet so thats out, Peach Tree was a real dependable program and then they just quit, Money was ok but they wanted to hook it up to the Stock Market not practical for a Homeowner or Small Business, I really don’t know what Small Business Owners do? Maybe Quicken 2002 was the last good one, any way thanks for your reply
I haven’t used Quicken since about 2010, but just talking with some folks who use it daily, they said it has problems so they quit using it for Accounting purposes. Some have gone to Excel spread sheets on the Mac, but that is not really practical, I guess thats why they are complaining so much, but yes if Numbers could make a few more Spread Sheets dedicated to say Small Business Accounting, Apple would put the rest out of business but then what do I know? So your saying the best solution for a Mac in your experience is Quicken? that is helpful, thanks
There you have it, tell Tim to make some Accounting Software plug it into the Powerful Mac Operating System and plug it into the encryption so it is safe and secure on the Internet and the Bank and you’ll have some happy small business owners by the millions, a very practical application of the Computer, thanks again
They do make software. Quite a bit, between macOS Software and iOS software. They just don't make accounting software specifically.
See here: Apple Software - Mac App Store
Use the Mac's App Store. Search for "Accounting". Reviews are presented.
I didn’t know that? I’m a newbie to MAC, Apple doesn’t make software? Just Safari and the Operating System? I really like what Steve Jobs did, he was ahead of his time
hughnearspeedoflight wrote:
Quicken now wants to store data on the internet so thats out,
That's optional but not required.
I use Quicken.
Accounting Software by Mac for Mac