Money Management Software for Macs?

**trelawney8** · 11-29-2007, 05:11 PM

Hi all,

I just switched to a Mac and I'd like to find a good software program to keep track of everything. Right now I just use google documents, which works just fine, but I'd like to be able to manipulate the data a bit more to figure out exactly where I stand.

Anyone use anything for this on a mac?

Thanks!

**isabel.loveday** · 12-07-2007, 04:59 PM

At my last job I was able to use the office version of Quickbooks for personal use, which was fantastic. Now I'm back to a good ol' excel spreadsheet, which of course offers very little. I'm not sure if there's a freeware for this...

**monkeywrangler71** · 12-07-2007, 05:59 PM

I have Quicken for Mac, which thankfully came free with my computer. I like the program itself and it meets most of my needs, but the mac version is full of bugs. The budgeting functions don't work and there are frequent errors. They obviously care nothing about mac users, since most of the problems (serious, ridiculous problems) were reported years ago and still haven't been corrected in new releases. For example, on budgeting reports payments to my mortgage show up as income in my chequing account, and going items under budget show as red while over budget items are black.

Anyway, if you just want to track spending, it works great, but if you want to set up a budget it's useless. I'm glad I didn't pay for it.

**monkeywrangler71** · 12-07-2007, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by monkeywrangler71

For example, on budgeting reports payments to my mortgage show up as income in my chequing account, and going items under budget show as red while over budget items are black.

Sorry, I can't edit, but the word going has no business in this sentence. That should just say 'items under budget'

**Nantahala** · 12-09-2007, 07:33 AM

You may also want to look at Mint and Wesabe.

toile · 12-09-2007, 11:59 AM

Is anyone here actually using these free programs?
I have a Mac also and these sites look awesome.

However I'm really afraid of the info they are asking for.
Anyone using the systems without giving them all the info they need?

Why are these sites free if they dont plan to advertise to us?

I wanna do this but I'm a big old chicken hahah.

**Nantahala** · 12-09-2007, 12:41 PM

I use Wesabe; you don't actually give them the information but upload from your own hard drive so you can erase it as needed, it's not much different from using online banking, etc.

Mint has gotten a lot of good press but I am happy with Wesabe so I'll stick with that for now.