In article <030720030822165751%pecora[at]anvil.nrl.navy.mil>,
Louis M. Pecora <pecora[at]anvil.nrl.navy.mil> wrote:
>Despite the problems with Quicken (and I admit it's not a
>well-maintained app), it does have some very nice features. I do not
>use it for online transactions, only to keep checkbooks and accounts
>balanced and for tax records. I enter everything by hand.
>Given that does MoneyDance make it easy to enter by hand?
Yes.
>Quicken has
>autocompletion and Quickfills which are a real time saver.
Moneydance does those too, or at least, autocompletion and it seems to be
pretty good about the rest.
>Reconcillation is quite easy and you can change transactions on the fly
>and the changes show up immediately in the reconcile window, i.e. you
>don't have to quit reconcile to make a change then go back to it (one
>financial app required this on the Mac many years ago). Well, you get
>the idea. What the ease of use like for Moneydance, not just that it's
>"not from Intuit."
Moneydance does all of that, too. The reason I switched is that my Quicken
data file got into a state where trying to reconcile an account would say "the
previously reconciled account balance is incorrect", and claim that a given
statement had a $10.46 error; when you tried to reconcile that statement, it
would be perfectly reconciled. I tried their "export and then reimport"
feature, and it still had the $10.46 error in total - but now every statement
was off by hundreds or thousands of dollars.
I imported into Moneydance, deleted a few obvious duplicate transactions, and
found that everything reconciled.
I'm not sure Moneydance's "quickfills" are quite the same, but they're good
enough for entering all of my data by hand and reconciling all my accounts to
the penny.
I especially like never ever seeing ads. Quicken has been getting gradually
more intrusive with the ads.
Moneydance has never, ever, ever, crashed on me. I can crash Quicken at will
just by switching from one file to another and back, and it tends to crash
trying to search my old finance records.
Moneydance has less comprehensive graphing, but the guy's working on it.
-s
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