Best replacement for Quicken personal finance ?

manglin

I have used quicken on XP for years and found it exellent & simple to use for forward planning, reports & bank reconciliation, splitting costs etc. What is the best replacement software around with similar functionality ?

poppy10_2

UK users are rather neglected at the moment when it comes to personal finance software. Quicken has not been available for the UK market since 2006, and Microsoft Money was discontinued last year.

There are a few free open source programs you could try, although none are quite as user-friendly as the above two commercial programs. I use Gnucash, which has a fairly steep leaning curve but is very powerful once you get used to it. Other decent alternatives are Homebank and Turbocash - again, both free, so it's worth giving them a download and trying them out.

Aiadi

I use:

http://www.codelathe.com/mmex/

As it is portable as well as free and easy to use...........

richardvc

I have no experience of Quicken so cannot comment but I use an old MS Money 99 for all my house accounts and think it's excellent.

You can usually pick a disc up for only a few quid on fleabay !!

macman

manglin wrote: »

I have used quicken on XP for years and found it exellent & simple to use for forward planning, reports & bank reconciliation, splitting costs etc. What is the best replacement software around with similar functionality ?

Just buy the US version of Quicken which is still available, just read £'s for $ when using it.
As long as you are not doing international currency conversions then it will be fine.

hansi

manglin wrote: »

I have used quicken on XP for years and found it exellent & simple to use for forward planning, reports & bank reconciliation, splitting costs etc. What is the best replacement software around with similar functionality ?

Have you not still got your Quicken disk?

happywarmgun

I've faced the same dillema - I was a loyal quick user since 98 - but felt forced to moving to MS Money when quicken pulled out the UK market. I have 'got by' with Money ever since - but I have never been as happy as I was with quicken.

I have some complex things that the program needs to model (e.g. stock splits, many overseas shares and some obscure funds in my portfolio) that I've had to do some manual workarounds on both programs to represent. Oh for someone to plug this huge gap in the market in the UK! If anyone has any recomendations I'd be thrilled.

For the OP though - I think it sounds like kublax does everything you want...

https://www.!!!!!!!!!!!

I've read very good reviews of it in the press but never met anyone who really uses it so would be curious how you get on!

happywarmgun

Oops forgot you can't do links...

Just google kublax

or guess - it is kublax dot and then com

hansi

I still use Quicken and find it's ok.

Mi-Mi

I read Kublax has gone. another good idea that didn't make it. I've signed up as a Beta tester for Moneydashboard it looks like a useful product.

pippa93

http://crave.cnet.co.uk/software/0,39029471,49302618,00.htm

Found this link after computer upgrade forced us to abandon money (1998 edition I think-everything was inputted manually!)

I use wesabe now, because it's online and the basic stuff is all I need- I haven't tried any of the others but they might be more suitable to your needs if you're looking for more features.

pippa