Customer Reviews:
 As good as it gets February 1, 2009
Mac Frampton (Atlanta, GA)
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Over the years I've used Quicken and watched it grow to become a truly wonderful accounting system for personal use. It does everything anyone could possibly want, and it does it with ease and simplicity. It doesn't let you goof up. It presents wonderful reports and allows you to easily see where too much spending is going on. I can't recommend this product enough!
 Very Little Improvement Over Previous Versions May 1, 2009
E. Nowak (Chicago)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
If you ALREADY own a version of Quicken for Mac -- such as Quicken 2006, DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY! I made the mistake of upgrading to 2007 from 2006 and boy was I disappointed. Quicken hasn't improved this product at all over the previous versions!! I have used Quicken on the mac since the mid-90's, and Quicken for Mac, sadly, frustratingly, has improved only a little bit during the time it's been on the market. Especially annoying is the non-adjustable (larger/smaller) font sizes -- especially in the hard-to-read account reconciliation function. If you have average-middle age vision problems, expect to have strong reading glasses or squint A LOT!
If you don't already own this program, it does adequately perform as a suitable financial management tool. And unfortunately, there is no other financial program on the market that equals Quicken -- yet. But let's hope some enterprising software programmer develops one soon!!! It's annoying how Intuit takes this fact for granted. But if another program were to come on the market that equalled Quicken: I would switch in a heartbeat!
 Quicken for Mac won't migrate data from Windows October 21, 2009
Mike
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
After many years with Windows, I have purchased an iMac. I needed to migrate years of Quicken data from Windows, so I bought Quicken for the Mac. The software installed easily and I followed the directions for migrating the data. However, when I brought up the data on the Mac, it was hopelessly scrambled. History and balances were completely useless. Individual transactions -- even simple ones from the checking account -- were duplicated, triplicated, or worse. I reread the directions, tried a second time and got the same results. I called Quicken technical support and confirmed that I used the right procedures. Quicken admitted that this was a problem and that the only way to fix it was to go in and manually delete all the duplicated items. Looking at thousands of transactions and having no confidence that, after all that work, I would have usable data, I gave up, deleted the migrated file, uninstalled Quicken and sent it back for a refund (which I am still waiting for). I considered running Quicken for Windows to a certain date, then starting Quicken for Mac at that point as a blank slate, but then the data would be split between two locations and there would be no continuous history. So now I need to keep my old Windows PC going for the sole purpose of running Quicken forever (with occasional upgrades) and having reliable financial history. The only way out would be if a future version of Quicken for Mac was capable of seamlessly migrating data from Windows. In the meantime, the current version is absolutely worthless to me because of this migration issue.
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