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Posted by John on January 27, 2008, 10:10 pm
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I recently bought Quicken for Mac at an Apple Store.
I had a Windoze copy a few years back, and balanced my
checkbook for a while, but never used any advanced
nor on line features in it.
I'm pretty disappointed with the software. I can't
figure out how to track an asset account as simple
as a vehicle (with depreciation) via a register as
it seems you must. (and stamp collection, coin
collection, etc. which can be assigned a fixed
value at a point in time... to be remembered and
tracked and plotted...) I posted here and no one
replied, so I assume it is a lost cause.
I put some stock portfolios in, and try as I may
with on line updating of prices and such, I can't
get any decent track graphs of the stock portfolio
over time.
I see that it can't handle savings bonds by reading
here, and that 401k and 403b accounts don't have
much positive said about them.
With all the complaints here about how brain dead
Quicken is, I am ready to throw it away. It is
sad that I've heard this name for so many years
and the software is so poor. I'd rather give up
all on line connections for something that works,
and works how I would like it to.
I guess I'll have to go back to my calc (OpenOffice)
spreadsheets to keep sensible track of my net
worth over time, and with projections. I have to
put in monthly or quarterly statements manually,
but at least I know I'll get it right and what
it is doing.
Anyway, as a big fan of Open Source software, I just
discovered gnucash. I'd welcome any comments from
people who have looked at it and like or don't
like it. Particularly the Mac Leopard port.
The price is right, and it has to be better than
making my own spreadsheets.
http://www.gnucash.org/
Thanks,
John
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