Quicken Personal Finances 2007 for Mac
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Quicken 2007 lets you track all your financial information and make the right spending decisions. You'll have all you need to know about your financial status right at your fingertips, and make informed choices in minutes. Quicken Basic works just like your checkbook, so it's easy to get started. You'll be able to see your complete financial picture in minutes! Product details and pricing info |
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144 Customer Reviews Posted
- Quicken 07 for Macs
- this is a watered down version of quicken for pc's -- instead consider ibank for mac.
- 2008-03-27, 2 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- It's good for some things
- Well I feel the need to come to poor Quicken 2007's rescue! :) I had been happily using Quicken 1998 on my G3 for about 10 years now with no problem. I've used Macs since the very beginning in the early 90's. I've used PCs also but you know the old saying, "Once you go Mac, you never go back!" :) So I've just upgraded to a MacBook Pro and needed upgraded software. I was at first put off Quicken by the negative reviews. Also their website is VERY user unfriendly and both myself and my husband, who works in the computer industry, found it very difficult to navigate through to get what we wanted (a 30-day free trial). So instead I bought iBank and then a 30-day free trial of Moneydance. Both programs drove me mad. It's like they presumed to know more about my finances than I did and wouldn't let me execute certain actions I was used to in Quicken. VERY frustrating. So I finally caved in and just bought Quicken. It loaded fine and works fine and I've been very happy with it so far. However I must admit that I ONLY use it for reconciling my checking and savings accounts. Nothing else. If you want to use it for something else, you might want to read what the other posters here have to say. Otherwise, if you are used to working on Macs and have used Quicken before and only use it for simple reconciling, then I can certainly recommend Quicken.
- 2008-03-23, 8 of 8 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Don't mix this product with Leopard!
- After spending two days struggling with Quicken 2007 on my new MacBook and four hours following troubleshooting instructions from Quicken's tech support (yes, it is very third world), I have given up. "Something is corrupting your file," the second tech said. Brilliant conclusion: no keyboard entry was possible in one of the registers, and the balances were changing before my very eyes in all of the registers as I moved among them. No amount of index-rebuilding, exporting the file from Quicken 2004 and importing it into Quicken 2007, deleting accounts and creating new ones, even completely reinstalling Quicken 2007 got rid of these problems. Finally the second tech admitted that the problem--repeated corruption of the data file converted from Quicken for Mac 2004 on my old PowerBook--was probably Mac OS 10.5--10.5.2, in my case. The old G4 PowerBook, running Quicken 2004 under Tiger, now sits on my desk beside its new MacBook mate. Apparently I will have to run two Macs: the PowerBook will have to serve as my Quicken machine for the foreseeable future. I'm certainly glad I did our taxes (with TurboTax and Quicken 2004) on the PowerBook!
- 2008-03-14, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Better than the reviews suggest!
- I had avoided buying a new version of Quicken for my Mac based on the long string of lousy reviews I've seen on this and other sites, but I recently was forced to upgrade when I bought my new MacBook. The old version simply would not work on my new machine. I wish now I had upgraded sooner!
It installed without a hitch and did a good job importing my (very) old QData files into the new version. I ran into a small problem getting it set up to download transactions directly from my credit union due to ambiguous account numbering which resulted in transactions going into the wrong accounts, but I just started over, reimported and voila!
I have set up my accounts for direct download from both CU and credit card companies. The set up is easy and works flawlessly. I have also set up for bill pay through my CU. Again, a snap.
Perhaps if I had used the PC version of Quicken I would be disappointed but I have not and I am not. This new version has hugely simplified my personal accounting and much reduced the amount of time it takes.
I highly recommend this product - 2008-03-14, 13 of 13 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Best software for personal finances for the Mac OS-X.
- After reading many negative reviews, I decided to investigate the alternatives before buying a personal finance manager for my Mac OS-X and downloaded their respective programs and installed them. They were all worse than Quicken and with lesser capabilities; some even crashed the uncrashable Mac OS-X. I had to remove the battery and unplug the machine for it to get out of the total freeze.
Finally I went to the store and purchased Quicken 2007 for the Mac. It installed without any problems and works just fine.
What is somewhat cumbersome is to migrate the data from your PC to your Mac, if you already have a PC version of Quicken. There is a pdf file that you have to download from Quicken which explains the process in detail. Without reading that file it is impossible to figure out the migration procedure.
Once installed and the data migrated, it is a breeze. It works just fine. The feel is different from the PC, mainly because of the differences in the user interface of the Mac, but not because of bugs or defects. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5, only because having become accostumed to the PC version for so many years, it felt somewhat awkward at the beginning.
If you are used to the Quicken for the PC, and to the reports, the data entry and the reconciliation procedures, you will not be happy with any of the alternatives. Quicken 2007 for the Mac is still better than all other programs on the market. - 2008-03-10, 18 of 19 people found this review helpful, Rated:
