I’ve listed them alphabetically to avoid any favoritism. This is a mix of commercial, shareware, and open source options. Desktop softwareįirst up… Desktop solutions. I will, of course, report back on my experiences in a future post. My current plan is to start with iBank to see if it’s a suitable Quicken replacement and, if necessary, move on from there. Not surprisingly, the various options have different feature sets and capabilities, and I haven’t had an opportunity to test them out myself. Note that a number of these are also Windows-friendly, so if you’re a PC user and are looking to ditch Quicken, you might want to check out this list. What to do? We’ve already talked at length about running the windows version in a virtual machine, waiting for Intuit to (hopefully) update or even running 10.6 in a virtual machine (if it ends up being allowed).īut what if you want to just make a clean break? What are your options? Below, I’ve rounded up ten desktop alternatives as well as five online alternatives. So you’re a Quicken addict (like me), you use a Mac, and now you’re worried about how to keep that addiction rolling when Mac OS X Lion kills Quicken 2007.
