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expiredPewex posted Mar 8, 2026 4:12 PM
1-Year Quicken Classic Deluxe (Win/Mac Key Card)
$45
$76
40% off
+ Free S/Hat Walmart
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Google will give you some options and compare them.
They did release an excel spreadsheet template with some of the functions in it, but it isn't really all that useful.
Quicken Simplifi, Gnucash, Credit Karma's version of Mint are a few that come to mind. Excel also has a pre-built spreadsheet with some of the functions of MS Money.
Google will give you some options and compare them.
Gnucash possibly/maybe depending on what you keep track of but even then it lacks much that quicken has.
It is very nice free software but it will take much work if you have many accounts to keep track of you will have to manually import if available or manually enter stuff. One month of having to do that will cost more time and effort than the year subscription price
Mint, Simplify and similar are are in no way replacements for Quicken. They are basically net worth aggregators that do some transaction and budgeting stuff but lack many abilities that Quicken has.
I may want to pay less but a piece of software that give me that ability to do that in a few minute per week at a $45 price is not monopolistic. You claim monopolistic practices and there are absolutely none.
You say monopoly, I say the goose that laid me the golden egg, that has brought me great value and saved me labor, time and money, The value I have gained and the money saved is extraordinary and yet we seem the dimwitted, cheap and greedy villagers show up and want to kill it.
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Even when Intuit had them it was not like what you say for me. I have been using it for thirty or more years now and only had one problem with data corruption that was semi easy to resolve and maybe five to ten bugs that were frustrating but that resolved with weeks to months.
I have found recent updates to not be buggy as the ones that came out under Intuit and issues and bugs get fixed much quicker under the new team. I have had no crashes or data corruption except the one time and that was probably ten years ago now. I do not even understand why you say new releases as under the new model there are not really any yearly release or versions we just get incremental updates and bug fixes and not a one has broken anything for me. If it did, they must have fixed it in the next incremental update and I did not notice.
Even when Intuit had them it was not like what you say for me. I have been using it for thirty or more years now and only had one problem with data corruption that was semi easy to resolve and maybe five to ten bugs that were frustrating but that resolved with weeks to months.
I have found recent updates to not be buggy as the ones that came out under Intuit and issues and bugs get fixed much quicker under the new team. I have had no crashes or data corruption except the one time and that was probably ten years ago now. I do not even understand why you say new releases as under the new model there are not really any yearly release or versions we just get incremental updates and bug fixes and not a one has broken anything for me. If it did, they must have fixed it in the next incremental update and I did not notice.
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