Banktivity (formerly iBank) is designed specifically for Mac and has long been one of the most popular desktop replacements for Quicken on Mac. Long before Quicken for Mac, Banktivity supported things like online banking integration, bill pay, envelope and full year budgeting, loan amortization and multi-currency support.
Quicken is a multipurpose personal finance management program that is used for meeting the requirements of personal financial management life. By using this program, the users can control the basic requirements of financial issues like money management, budgeting, income and expense management and many more. Quicken is available for both Mac OS X and Windows operating systems users. By using this personal finance management program the users of both operating systems can get a full command and control over each of their personal financial transactions.
The main advantages of using Quicken are it is the provider of complete financial solution, provide bank level security, can be access from anywhere by sync it with the online account management system of Quicken, make the users able to see and track all of their bills and other financial transactions at one place. When it comes to reliability and accuracy then Quicken provide the users with state of the art bank level of reliability and accuracy. Well I had been a Quicken user for 15+ years, and I have watched it go from bad to worse over the last 10. Most recently it was actually screwing up my account records.
When I searched around for an alternative, I came up with CountAbout. It does everything I need to keep track of my accounts. I never did use Quicken for investment tracking, so this was not important to me.
What was important was the ability to access my info from my Android phone. Of course you can do this with Quicken if you go the “sync with the cloud” route, but if you are going to do that why not have it in the cloud in the first place? I find it liberating not to have to worry about a locally-based database, with all the backup implications. I have been an “early adopter” of Countabout for almost a year now, and I have to say that I am very happy with the product, its capabilities, and the incredibly rapid support response.
For me there is no looking back. I have not opened Quicken for at least 6 months. I am not concerned with importing all my old Quicken data. I keep it around for historical reference purposes, but that’s all. Of course CountAbout has just released the Quicken import feature, for those who need it, along with a limited inclusion of investment balances, and multi-factor authentication.
I’m very happy with CountAbout, and as long as they keep it as clean and light as it is now, I’m sure I will stay with it.