Quicken 2018 For Mac Reviews

Quicken is an on-premise personal finance management tool that allows users to manage their financial accounts and investments in one place. The platform is available only for Windows and Mac users. Quicken 2019 for Windows imports data from Quicken for Windows 2010 or newer, Microsoft Money 2008 and 2009 (for Deluxe and higher). Antivirus for apple mac. Quicken 2019 for Mac imports data from Quicken for Windows 2010 or newer, Quicken for Mac 2015 or newer, Quicken for Mac 2007, Quicken Essentials for Mac, Banktivity.

While not a fan of the subscription service, Quicken has been such for years now with the deactivation of online downloads on a regular basis. Quicken is being up front about the service now, vs. The old model of forcing us to upgrade. I plan to let my service lapse and then shop for a discounted activation like this at the end of my 27 months. The 27 month activation started in April 2018 when I activated, not when I purchased the product on Amazon months earlier when on-sale. Conversion to 2018 Deluxe from Q2015 Mac went OK. Pleasant surprise is SORTABLE columns on the investments / portfolios.

Investment views are much improved, but most useful for an overview vs. Precise tracking. Ideally Quicken will allow us to stack & apply activation codes vs. Automatic renewal on our ransomed credit card credentials. My primary criteria, online downloads must work for my accounts. So far so good, but suffering through Quicken's online download hiccups been better than iBank, now Banktivity, and other products. Ideally Mint would be on-par with Quicken, but with the Intuit Mint / Quicken Quicken split I do not see Mint branching out like Quicken.

Short story, if your accounts download AOK with another product, go for it. If Quicken automates your transaction tracking better, stick with Quicken for under $3/mo at their current 2 year Deluxe pricing. Presumably 'Deluxe' has better 'Investments' features than 'Starter', but I don't have Quicken 'Starter' up and running to compare against. Discounted 'Deluxe' is the same price as 'Starter' for 24 months service. I am a user of Quicken since the 1990's.

I upgrade every year. I like what the new independent company has been doing. The Quicken 2017 product is a very good product, fixes to investment cost basis, online billers working properly, etc.

Now for Quicken 2018, linked online billers to reminders go back to not working. Whatever Quicken gets from the online biller site overrides the value on the reminder, meaning a zero value due makes the reminder zero. This makes cash flow / projected balances inaccurate and worthless. Linked billers do not show in Bills & income Reminders window.

Since this is now a membership with a time limit I strongly recommend not buying at this time. This 2018 version needs a lot of work and the 2017 version works properly with the linked online billers.

If Quicken does not fix this in my 30 day return window I will return 2018 and go back to 2017. Not only did they make you start paying a yearly subscription, but they made it practically unusable due to its constant crashing! You can finally get things done after constantly restarting the program and reentering what you are working on several times due to the crashes, but it takes a very long time and a lot of irritation! I think the product would be good if they would fix this very serious problem!

And I had been using previous versions of Quicken in the past years which were not perfect, but none were plagued by a problem as serious as this! I've used Quicken since the days of DOS and always happily purchased the upgrade every couple of years. I could always count on the program to be reliable and stable. Over the years Quicken assisted me in establishing and keeping to a budget and plan for upcoming expenses as well as retirement. I was very pleased with the product, felt it was a good value, and always highly recommended it. However, the past few upgrades have been problematic, to say the least. Several times I've been locked out of the program because it didn't recognize my password (which had not changed).