Best home budgeting programme please.

sheeps68

Hi all. Many years ago I used microsoft money and then transferred to Home Accountz. That is now going to end at next computer update so I need a new programme. Please help. I like to keep a running record of all my transactions. Some which are regular transactions and across several accounts ie savings & current accounts. If there is something that will do that and even better automatically copy all my current data across that would be amazing. I tried one programme which said it would take the data across but it would not do anything. I don't mind if it is a small payment ideal a one off or small annual payment to get something good and reliable.

I'm using a Mac in case it makes any difference

Gonk1967

I would recommend HomeBank…

HomeBank | Free personal finance software, money management for everyone

wmb194

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6666195/best-home-budgeting-programme-please

I still use MS Money 2005 UK. Still works fine on a Windows 11 machine.

https://www.garethjmsaunders.co.uk/2011/11/27/download-microsoft-money-2005-for-free/

sheeps68

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81981476#Comment_81981476

Thanks. I'm working on a Mac

sheeps68

Thanks I will have a look at it.

wmb194

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81981602#Comment_81981602

I'm using a Mac as well but run it on a Windows 11 virtual machine. It might be possible to run it using Wine but I haven't tried.

For Mac there's a personal finance database called MoneyWiz.

https://www.wiz.money

blue.peter

Two suggestions:

1. I use, and recommend, AceMoney (https://www.mechcad.net/). It costs about £40 (one-off, not a subscription). This is available for Windows or MacOS.
2. MoneyManager EX (https://moneymanagerex.org/). Free, but I'm not sure that it's available for MacOS - the App Store says "Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS". The Windows version might work in a Wine bottle or a Windows VM.

deinoflex

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81982502#Comment_81982502

MMEX does work for macos, if you click the download button on link above it tells you which platforms it runs on.

blue.peter

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81982534#Comment_81982534

That's good. Thanks. I'm not a Mac user, so I've no relevant personal experience.

Dizzycap

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81981476#Comment_81981476

I'm on Windows 11 and since the last update yesterday, some of the features no longer work on the MS Money 2025. I.e. connecting a bank account which is now 'temporarily unavilable'?

wmb194

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81985188#Comment_81985188

What are you trying to do? I only ever tried that a couple of times e.g., downloading account transactions from Nationwide but I didn't think that had worked in a long time.