Like others here, I am trying to move my finances off of Quicken for Windows (2001!) And I am beginning to have doubts about Intuit's commitment to non-Windows platforms. I would love to know their business case for ignoring Mac's. I still use Turbotax, so they appear to have the inhouse talent.
Many of the reviews on the web for any of these products seem a bit suspect, but here is my two cents:
I worked with iBank for a while, and may still purchase it. It seems to have done a credible job of importing theQIF data. Reconciliation boggled my mind for a while, but gets a little easier as you learn it. The transition is much easier if you import accounts which are reconciled, and then immediately create a historical reconciliation that covers all your past reconciled data. In my case, for the period of 12/31/1995 - 11/22/2012. This should be nearly automatic, since the opening balance for the statement was "0", and the closing was the last reconciled balance. If you do not do this, future reconciliations will give you nightmares. I have not found a way to do period comparison reports. And although the reports are separated into "Income" and "Expenses",iBank seems to be compelled to surround the later amounts with parentheses. Somehow, I knew that those cell phone bills were not credits.
iBank is slower than Q. Given the difference in machines, I would conclude that it is much slower. iBank search mechanism does not cross accounts (how about a check box, or preference?), but it is easy to create a report that will work across accounts. iBank does due major and sub category detail, and if you click on a total, it will expand into a new detail report (almost like Q). Basic data entry is slower than Q; too many check boxes that do not respond to the space bar. (Perhaps there is another entry trick.)
I also tried See Finance, which had me excited for a minute. It has Q like speed. I was even considering living with the fact that transfers are not directly linked. See's reconciliation was positively scary; it made iBank'sprocess appear seamless by comparison.
I do online payments from a bank site, so that is not a feature that I miss. Imports of bank data seems pretty good, especially if you do it in monthly chunks. I have not tried the sync.
