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Best Financial Application?

I'm looking to start keeping track of my finances and actually establish a budget. I'd also like to start investing seriously and keeping track of my different online accounts. What's the best app for the Mac? Quicken? iBank? Something else?

TOPICS: Mac OS X
Señor Pantalones's picture

quicken for pc is the only game in town

i've tried them all. quicken is the only one that reliably gets data for you (unless you like logging in to 5 different accounts every week, manually downloading .qfx files, and importing them) and does useful things with it. iBank is pretty and had the potential to be great, but it's horribly slow (graphs can take 3 minutes to generate vs. quicken does it instantly) and limited (parent categories don't show the sum values of subcategories...things like that).

i wish i didn't have to recommend running an ugly monster like quicken for PC under virtualized XP, but if you are seriously looking for a good solution, it's really the only option. the others are just far too frustrating and limited for multiple accounts, investments, planning, etc.

 
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