Personal Finance Software

Linton

And another vote for MS Money. I do have problems with Windows 8 - the Portfolio page doesnt display, but its fine with Windows 7. What I will do when Windows 7 ceases to be supported I dont know. Nothing else on the market seems to give the combination of cash account and portfolio data management I need.

Rob34C

I use MoneyDashboard... not on your list and not something that I think you are looking for (although does have limited forecasting options).

It's okay, provides a quick overview of all my accounts, so I can quickly check if I need to move money about. Even though they say their security is "bank level" and they dont store any passwords, that does worry me.

Is it worth starting to use MS Money if it's no longer going to be supported? There must be a better alternative somewhere with future support.

Sobryma

Thanks I am slightly less keen on Mint/Moneydashboard as I would prefer slightly less direct access. MS Money does have a legacy version I think can download but no support.

Deneb

Linton wrote: »

And another vote for MS Money. I do have problems with Windows 8 - the Portfolio page doesnt display, but its fine with Windows 7. What I will do when Windows 7 ceases to be supported I dont know. Nothing else on the market seems to give the combination of cash account and portfolio data management I need.

I have used Quicken since the early 90's. I was still using the 2004 UK XG version until a couple of years ago, but having decided that there would likely come a time when it wouldn't work properly on a new OS (and it was already becoming less friendly on a high-res widescreen monitor) I took the plunge and migrated to the current US version.

Converting my existing data file was somewhat tricky and time consuming, and involved converting through two freely available versions of MS Money and back to a newer version of Quicken, but I'm glad I did it.

If you are starting from scratch, it will be much easier. You just need to enable multi-currency support in preferences and set Pounds Sterling as the default currency before creating or importing any data file, and everything runs in pounds and pence.

There's no explicit support for UK users, but there is a Quicken user to user forum accessible from the Intuit Quicken Support site, and Intuit staff contribute there as well.

TrustyOven

KMyMoney and LibreOffice spreadsheets for me.

Sobryma

Edging toward Moneydance or YNAB based on Which? rating and reviews.

anoncol

GnuCash is fantastic software and its free! How come nobody uses it? I'd understand people preferring spreadsheets, but what does Money etc do that it doesn't?r

archer5

MS Money since 2004. Windows 7. Works fine. I agree a little tweaking with QE from a website. Many hard drives have come and gone but MS Money comes right back on my system!

TrustyOven

anoncol wrote: »

GnuCash is fantastic software and its free! How come nobody uses it? I'd understand people preferring spreadsheets, but what does Money etc do that it doesn't?r

Tried using GnuCash a long time ago - never got on with its GTK (and Gnome-ish user interface). I use KMyMoney, which is Qt/KDE user interface, so I am more used to that.

anoncol

TrustyOven wrote: »

Tried using GnuCash a long time ago - never got on with its GTK (and Gnome-ish user interface). I use KMyMoney, which is Qt/KDE user interface, so I am more used to that.

Oh I'll have a look at that, I like Qt apps.