Quicken Essentials for Mac
Set goals and save more. Organizes all your accounts in one place. Automatically categorizes expenses so you can see where you’re spending and where to save. Helps you create a budget and tracks your progress against it. Alerts you to upcoming bills. Quicken Essentials for Mac personal finance software makes understanding your money a snap. Our interface has been completely reimagined, resulting in an intuitive, elegant application designed by-and for-Mac users. Quicken for Mac automatically categorizes your transactions to show you exactly what you’ve been spending money on. View a snapshot of your most important info. See all your accounts in one place. Improved and redesigned with you in mind. Built Mac smart, with you in mind. View all your accounts in one place. Our completely reimagined interface makes it easier than ever to see where you can save more and spend less.
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Quicken Essentials for Mac
- Quicken Essentials for Mac is intuitive personal finance software designed by–and for–Mac users
- Completely reimagined interface makes it easier than ever to see where you can save more and spend less
- Automatically categorizes transactions so you can see where your money’s going and pay down debt
- See your current balance, including upcoming bills and paychecks so you always know where you stand
- Seamlessly converts your data from all supported Quicken Mac and Windows versions in three easy steps
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Review by Ralph Brent Stanley for Quicken Essentials for Mac
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I bought this software Feb 18, almost as soon as it hit the stores. Believe me, it was the biggest disappointment ever. As a Quicken user of 12 years, this software is not recognizable. It’s nothing but a budget tracker, with none of the advanced features of Quicken for Windows. Actually, this software is like Quicken for Windows, minus 90% of the functionality. Quicken Essentials is really just that, the bare bones basics. You cannot even set up your paycheck, cannot use online billpay, cannot use with TurboTax, and you cannot even download or manually enter individual stock transactions. And most shocking of all, you can’t even back up your data!!!! Am I angry? You bet I am. Instead of Quicken Essentials, it should be called Quicken Kindergarten. The following is quoted directly from their setup guide. I wish they put this stuff on the box.
“As much as we improved the experience of using Quicken when we rebuilt it from the ground up, there are some features you may have been used to using in Quicken for Mac (or Quicken for Windows) that we didn’t include in this version of Quicken Essentials.
Investments
Quicken Essentials lets you to track the overall value of your investment accounts and the value of specific holdings, but the software does not track individual buys and sells, nor will it provide some advanced investment performance reports.
Exporting to TurboTax
Quicken Essentials does not currently support the ability to export your data to TurboTax.
Direct bill pay
You can track your bills in Quicken Essentials, but the program doesn’t have the direct bill pay capabilities that allow you to pay your bills directly from the program.
Other advanced features
Quicken Essentials does not include many of the advanced features in other versions of Quicken, including Business features, Rental Property, lifetime planner, cash flow forecast, spending plan, debt reduction plan, emergency tax records, tax planner, and home inventory manager.”
If Quicken for Windows is worth a retail price of $60 to $70, then this new version of Quicken for the Mac is worth at most 5 bucks. Seriously, it does nothing more than downloads transactions and helps you track your spending or maintain a budget. I feel like a total fool for purchasing this product and will be returning it to Intuit. And to think I waited almost 3 years for this product. I was really expecting to be impressed. After Intuit’s horrible experience with TurboTax last year, I really can’t believe they have the temerity to unleash this worthless product on the market. I expect people at Intuit to get fired over this disaster, and deservedly so. This product looks like it was designed by an 8th grader in order to help a 3rd grader do his arithmetic. And did I mention the graphics? Oh, so elementary. That little pink pig next to my savings account makes me want to scream !!!!!!
Review by Jonathan Bowers for Quicken Essentials for Mac
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I’ve been a quicken user for 8 years now, almost always on a mac. In my opinion Quicken was by far the best option for personal money management. In fact it would take a lot to make a loyal user of their products ever consider switching. This program, Quicken Essentials for Mac has made it blatantly obvious that I need to look elsewhere from this point forward for my financial software needs.
I won’t nit pick at the software for the specific features that are missing(many of what I’d consider to be basic requirements for even calling it Personal Finance software) but instead I’ll simply say that this software provides so little, and is so far off the mark from doing half of what prior versions of Quicken did that I’m not really sure what the purpose of having it is. The user interface upgrades are so lackluster in comparison to the degradation of usefulness that you don’t even notice them.
to those consumers considering the purchase I’d like to point you to either Quicken 2007(if you need check writing, better online transaction downloading, bill pay, investment account updating and tracking) or [...] if you like the budgetary and overview side of things(Mint was purchased by quicken and the Mint team ultimately developed Quicken Essentials). Unfortunately if you buy this you’ll be getting very disabled versions of both Quicken & Mint and will be left frustrated, constrained & forced to acknowledge the waste of money.
Review by jsschi for Quicken Essentials for Mac
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If there was a way to give this product 0-stars that would be my rating. Good thing that they have a 60-day money back policy as I am sending this back today.
I did see, before I bought this, that you can no longer track investment accounts (other than a balance) and I was fine with that as well as some of the additional items listed that were no longer included. However, they should put in big bold letters on the box and on Amazon’s product listing that, “This program no longer allows users to print checks.” What were they thinking? I, like many, do not write a lot of checks but for 5 or 10 each month that I do write–I used Quicken and printed the check in the program (using the overpriced Intuit checks–which I just happened to re-order 3 months ago) .
There are so many more things missing from this program that were in older versions (and are not spelled out in detail) it would be silly to list them. However, needless to say, if you made use of even one of these features then you will be asking for trouble in getting this program. For example, you can no longer keep track of loans or mortgages and show the actual principal and interest due. All you can do is show a “liability” account and the balance remaining.
What a complete and absolute waste this program is. It is little more than a conduit to download your various bank and credit card accounts in one place without going to the various account websites.
Review by Gadget Guy for Quicken Essentials for Mac
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Dear loyal customer: Here’s the New version Quicken for the Mac that you’ve been waiting OVER three years for! More good news – we’ll gladly charge you more than we do for our highly functional, feature-complete, Windows version (Quicken Deluxe 2010 for Windows sells for MORE than twenty-five dollars less on Amazon right now). You’re patience and devotion to our product is about to be greatly rewarded. We know Quicken 2007 for the Mac is a dog. It’s slow and buggy and poorly designed, but hey, what else were you going to use on your Mac? We’re sorry we stopped fixing bugs or enhancing Quicken 2007 YEARS ago – but we still recommend it over Quicken Essentials for Mac, on our website, if you need to:
1) Pay your bills online
2) Track investment purchases and sales
3) Print checks
4) Export to TurboTax
These are silly things anyway – who really wants to pay their bills using Quicken – right? And after you’ve spent the entire year entering all of your financial information into Quicken – why not do it all over again in order to use one of our other products – like TurboTax? It’s your time, not ours.
Look, we’ve been trying to figure out this whole “Quicken on the Mac” thing for a while. We know we promised you a new Quicken for Mac years ago – but, we kinda screwed up and had to scrap that project. Then, we were completely caught off guard by the fact the Mac actually became popular. So we figured we could just release a bare minimum product – you know, check the box and buy some time to add in what we should have delivered years ago. We figure, in the meantime, some of you will actually pay for this useless product AND, we can say we’ve addressed the needs of the Mac market.
We own the financial software market, so you’re going to just have to accept what we give you and pay top dollar for it. Sorry people that’s just reality. Grin and bear it – please stop complaining and just give us your money.
Review by Jeffrey Fields for Quicken Essentials for Mac
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I have used Quicken for over 15 years and as long as I used a Windows version I was very pleased and upgraded many times. I converted to Mac about 4 years ago and after trying Quicken I decided to keep a Windows machine solely to run Quicken. After a while I installed Fusion so I could run Windows Quicken on my Mac and then a couple of years ago I forced myself to use the Quicken 2006 I have on my Mac. I have never been comfortable with Quicken 2006 and looked forward to the day when Intuit would issue a “real” Quicken for the Mac. I was very excited to learn about Quicken Essentials for the Mac. I received the order yesterday and struggled last night and most of today until I finally realized that could not imagine why I would to continue this frustration. I have tried Shareware and Freeware personal financial manager programs that are many times better than this program. As much as I don’t like Quicken 2006, it is heads and shoulders above Quicken Essentials for the Mac. I cannot describe how disappointed with this program and one Star is a generous rating.